to this event. This event is part of the 150 years of John Lee's Leap's celebration, which is not only highlighting Purdue's remarkable history, but also focusing on what John Leap's Purdue can take to address the world's problems. One of the big problems is the complicated impact of technology on human rights. This is the focus of this evening's talk. My name is Feng Gangyang. I'm a professor of sociology at Purdue University. This event is sponsored by the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts. Thanks to the engineer Dean, Moon Jiang, and also Liberal Arts Dean, David Ringgold, for giving me this honor to introduce our speaker. Please allow me to offer some context for today's talk. In the last four decades, China's economy has grown in leaps and bounds. China has become the world's second largest economy since 2010. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. It has made it possible for millions of young people to go to college, including studying abroad. In 2017, more than 350,000 Chinese students enrolled in American universities, including 3,300 enrolled at Purdue last year. However, the families of these Chinese students are very lucky ones. Only 1% of people in China have a household income more than $80,000. And this number enabled the family to send the son or the daughter to an American university, 1%. It is the best times for this 1% of people who have made it. But it is one of the worst times for hundreds of millions of people who are struggling in the ocean of the so-called socialist market economy. The socialist is so-called because the economy is very much capitalist. In fact, it is chronic capitalism. Anyone who holds power can get rich easily. Corruption of Communist Party state officials has become rampant. Air pollution, water pollution, and the soil pollution have become severe. The health care system is broken. The education system is broken. The welfare system is broken. The poor and marginalized people abound. Their basic human rights and civil rights have been neglected and have been violated by the rich and the powerful. Mr. Cheng Guangcheng was born and raised in a poor and remote village in Shandong province. I'm from Hebei province, also from a village, the neighboring province. He became blind since infancy and was not able to go to school until his late teens, when his family learned about the opening of a school for the blind. But he went all the way to college. Once entered school, he learned fast, even taught himself the law and became a lawyer, advocating for the poor and the disabled. His effective advocacy won him numerous awards, including Time Magazine 100 Most Influential List in 2006. However, his activism upset the party state officials, eventually led to prison for more than four years. After he was released from prison in 2010, his house in his village became a prison.  Even the powerful Batman, Christine Bale, and the adventurers to see a news crew, could not even get close to his house. The guards even set up a device near his house to jam his cell phone signals, so that he would not be able to tell the outside world about his inhumane conditions. On April 20, 2012, Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic escape from 20 months of brutal house arrest, catching the attention of international media. The American embassy in Beijing secured his temporary safety before high-level diplomatic negotiations enabled his exodus to the US. You may read the details of these absolutely amazing stories in Mr. Chen's memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer, A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China. And after his talk, you will get a chance to find a copy of his memoirs, but only a limited number of copies here, so first come, first served. Chen Guangcheng has established a not-for-profit foundation for human rights in China and serves as a visiting fellow at the Catholic University of America. The title of his talk today is Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. Could the Barefoot Lawyer have escaped in 2019? And Danika Mills is his assistant and translator. And let's welcome Mr. Chen Guangcheng. Thank you, everyone. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for the warm introduction of Professor Yang. It's a great honor to have a chance to be here at the University of Portugal to share with you the most important moment of the 150th anniversary of the Catholic Church. Do you understand how the CCP uses the kidnapping of the country to support the government to destroy the international civil rights and destroy the world? Even if I use high technology to do evil, I still hope for the future. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to Professor Yang for the generous introduction. It's an honor to be here as part of Purdue University's 150-year celebration. I'm excited for the opportunity to share my experiences and insights as an activist and to discuss the opaque structures in China that enable authoritarian control. Through my talk, I think you will understand how the Chinese Communist Party has kidnapped the nation and strong armed the government, enslaving the Chinese people and upsetting international procedures. In an age of high-tech surveillance and tyranny, however, I'm still full of hope for the future. I was born in a poor and poor countryside in Shandong. I was only half a year old and lost my ability to go to school. Until I was 18, I had the opportunity to go to school. Because I had experienced a lot of discrimination and prejudice. I was very sensitive to the unfairness that was happening around me. So I used the law and forced the authorities to abide by their own laws. I was born in a poor remote village in Shandong province. Before I was six months old, I had a fever and lost my sight. Because I could not see, I was not allowed to attend school as a child. Finally, at age 18, I had the opportunity to attend a school for the blind and eventually graduated from college. Because I myself had been the victim of discrimination, I was particularly sensitive to injustice around me. I began to fight back using the law to force the authorities to respect the laws that they themselves had established. I was the one who sent the officials to court to help the disabled, the farmers, to pay back the taxes that were confiscated by the illegal authorities. In 2003, I started a local company in Beijing asking them to follow the law and allow the people to be free to do domestic public transportation. Until now, the people and the compensation are still enjoying this benefit. I brought officials to court, helping disabled people reclaim taxes and fees that had been illegally levied against them. In 2003, I brought a successful lawsuit against the Beijing Metro Corporation for illegally charging blind riders. And to this day, blind people and an accompanying traveler can ride public transportation for free in Beijing. I was able to get a good result. Of course, I also offended the government and many interest-related officials. In 2005, because of the violence in the remote areas in Shandong, I was very miserable. I found out that in half a year, nearly 30,000 people were killed by force. When the children were born, they were still alive and killed. More than 60,000 relatives and neighbors were arrested, imprisoned, and imprisoned by illegal authorities. Because the CCP banned the media from reporting the criminal rights of the planned life, we sent the investigation report online to the Chinese media. There were many successes in these cases, but as a result, the government and interested parties became disgruntled. In 2005, the authorities began a violent reproductive planning campaign to enforce the one-child policy in Shandong province where I lived. Upon hearing about the horrors of what was going on, some friends and I began an investigation. We discovered that in six months, over 130,000 people had had forced abortions or were forcibly sterilized. Another 600,000 people were caught up in this dragnet and implicated because of family relations and were detained, held in custody for weeks or months, and often tortured. We often heard as well that babies were born at eight or nine months of pregnancy and were killed by nurses and doctors. Because the CCP forbade media coverage of the abuses in the one-child policy, we released the findings from our investigation online and also, I did an interview with the Washington Post that made a report about our investigations. The party was incensed. I was kidnapped in Beijing and forced back to Shandong, where I was held under unlawful house arrest for seven months. The party was incensed. I was kidnapped in Beijing and forced back to Shandong, where I was held under unlawful house arrest for seven months. The CCP cut off the phone line, installed cellphone jammers, ransacked our house and beat us. I was disappeared in a secret detention facility for three months. When questioned by my family and lawyers, the CCP replied that they had no idea where I was. I was disappeared in a secret detention facility for three months. When questioned by my family and lawyers, the CCP replied that they had no idea where I was. Later, I was falsely accused of destroying public property and disturbing traffic, and was sentenced to four years in prison. I was beaten by inmates on the order of prison wardens, and my lawyers were beaten multiple times when they tried to see me. During my imprisonment, my wife and children were also under house arrest at home, and were only allowed to see me a handful of times each time under escorted guard. When my four-year sentence was up, I was escorted home where I found that I was far from free. My home and village had been surrounded by dozens of thugs and hooligans with sometimes hundreds throughout our village. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in to see us. The CCP cut off our phone lines again and we had to go to the security office to search for our relatives. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in. We were not allowed to go out and nobody was allowed in. The CCP again cut off our phone lines and installed cellphone jammers along with seven high-definition video cameras and spotlights around our home. The guards ringed our village on duty 24 hours a day.  After that, I took legal action to tell the outside world on the way. The CCP was furious. On February 18, 2011, the CCP ordered the Justice Committee to take 70 or 80 bandits and open the gate and break into our home and beat me to death in the yard. After months of this, my wife Weijing and I managed to surreptitiously record a video documenting our treatment, which we found a way to get out online. The Communist Party was enraged. On February 18, 2011, 70 or 80 CCP thugs stormed into our home. A dozen of them threw my wife Weijing to the ground in the yard. They covered her with a quilt and standing on the edges to muffle her cries. They beat her viciously and kicked her, breaking ribs and fracturing the bone of her eye socket. The rest of the dozens of CCP thugs took the detector device and searched everywhere for the things they wanted. They took away the receiver, the phone, the camera and so on. They thought they needed to take away the things. A few hours later, we left. We were locked up in the house. We were not allowed to take our clothes off. My wife's left side, number nine, and 11x, were rolling her ribs and residue bones. Her left side of her eye socket was bent. She looked the same, and had not seen anything for long. So, like this, she hit and grabbed. She had thrice in a month.  The other thugs scoured our home with metal detectors, searching for any equipment we had like cell phones, radios, and video cameras. After many hours, they left us locked in our home, refusing us badly needed medical attention. My wife had two of her ribs broken, and her eye socket was badly damaged and she could not see for many days. This outrage was repeated multiple times that month. After the video was released, the netizens in Beijing formed Chen Guangcheng's attention group. With the increase in attention and money to visit netizens, the CCP used hundreds of people to rob their property, beat them up. The Central Committee of the People's Republic of China has been chasing after netizens who used to visit the East China Sea. Despite these vicious attacks, the video had already caught the attention of netizens in China. Many people set up groups, free Chen Guangcheng groups, with which they travel to our village. Other organizations abroad also saw the video and many people tried to make the journey to my village as a kind of protest. These people were routinely beaten up and their families were threatened. Even the actor, Christian Bale, known for playing Batman, tried to come and see me. We'll have a video. Once again, we've been stopped. We've been stopped right here. And as you can see, they're pushing Christian here. We're trying to leave peacefully. We're trying to leave peacefully. The guards can chase in their car. They're still coming at a time. Christian Bale says this is not what he hoped for. He made an eight-hour car journey from Beijing to try to leave a person, a hero, blind, self-taught lawyer, Chen Guangcheng. You know, I'm not being brave to do this. The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insist on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it and my understanding of being on the support of what they're doing. Bale has been in China for the first year of a film he's made here about the Japanese invasion of Beijing in the 1930s. Bale could have rolled up a red carpet left but the actor whose movie is about suffering and injustice could not leave China without highlighting this real-life struggle. Chen Guangcheng has campaigned against alleged forced abortions and the treatment of villages in China. In 2006, he was sentenced to more than four years in prison for disrupting traffic and damaging property. He denies those allegations. Chen has not been allowed to leave his home since his release last year. Local Chinese authorities in Shandong Province have his house and local village been locked down. No one allowed him to see Chen. Authorities here declined to comment on the case. The United States' champion Chen's cause, Secretary of State Henry Clinton, has raised his case during past visits to the region. Christian Bale now wants to add whatever weight he can. It doesn't come naturally to him but this was such a situation, I said. Can't look the other way. Bale's followed CNN's coverage of Chen's case that approached us to try to meet the blind activist. His hopes were high until this. Well, I really wanted to leave with Shandong and Chen so thank you for telling what inspiration he is. The Chinese security continued to chase us for more than half an hour. We got away. Chen remains locked in his house. Stand right there and see your name. Shandong Chen. The Chinese security continued to chase us. Despite this situation, we continued to find ways to get information out. As a result, on July 28, 2011, the CCP moved into our house where they abused us 24 hours a day, face to face, mocking us as we ate and sitting on benches by our bedside as we tried to sleep. This is the Chinese Communist Party. During the fall of the three-legged skeleton, we escaped from the CCP's hideout. We went to Beijing with our family and friends to help them out. Under the American embassy's assistance, the CCP was forced to chase us and enter the embassy. Under the American government's help, we came to the United States. We tried many times to escape, all unsuccessfully. Then, finally, after about 20 months, I found an opening, a few seconds of opportunity, when a guard was blocking another's view, and I began my escape. Over the next 20 hours, I scaled eight walls and crossed nine rings of guards. I broke three bones in my foot, crawling on my hands and knees out of my village. I finally made it to the American Embassy in Beijing and later to the United States, beyond the reach of the Communist Party. I've written about my escape and my life in China and my memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer. My experience is a shadow of the Chinese human rights defenders. Currently, over a million U.S. people in Xinjiang are believed to have been imprisoned. There are many human rights defenders and human rights lawyers because of their violation of social justice, helping victims to be rights-abiding, and helping those who are believed to have been tortured and tortured to death. My experience is a miniature version of the bigger picture of human rights defenders today in China. Now, over a million people in Xinjiang are detained in concentration camps because of their religion. Numerous activists and lawyers have been detained en masse for their social justice work, including their work defending the rights of religious believers. They were punished severely by the prisoners. They were forced to commit suicide on the roads of the Yangtze River and Xinhua internet or even the ruins of prostitution. In addition to being put in secret jails, tormented and tortured, the CCP uses threats of harm to their families to force activists and lawyers to make self-confessions on the state-controlled media. These people are also forced to take unknown drugs. China's political system is the party system. The party system is basically the same as the government of a normal country. There is no rule of law under authoritarianism. The root of these social inequities is China's political system, which is a party state system, differing vastly from what I would call normal countries. In China, the government as such is subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party, which controls all levels of society, from the villages to the center. The Chinese Communist Party and its committee affiliates operate above the people, the nation, national security, above government and the law. The Communist Party and its various party organizations in China are not allowed to report and sue. In other words, the Communist Party has committed too much crime and is unable to control it. No CCP affiliate can be sued. If the Communist Party commits a crime, no matter the severity, the law of the nation cannot hold it responsible. The Chinese government is only a tool for the Communist Party to control the people, to maintain the power of the party. From the center to the center, the government of any level is only a subordinate to the party committee. The real power is in the party committee. The party committee is the first hand in the real power. The representative of the government from the national president to the village head is the second hand. Everything must be heard. The government is simply a front for the party, essentially a puppet, a tool through which the party protects its hold on power. Party committees and party secretaries are the real bosses at each level of their authority. So-called legislature representatives from the nation's premier to village mayors, all are second in command to party secretaries. The CCP has set up a set of party organization systems for the government. As the CCP has controlled the state office through the Central Office of the CCP, through the Central Office of the Central Propaganda and the Ministry of Public Policy, the Ministry of Public Policy, the Ministry of Public Policy, all of the new media, including the Internet, the party's secretaries, have been banned from criticizing the public opinion, they can only be sent to the public. The CCP has created a system of party organizations that direct the actions of the government. The General Office of the Central Committee controls the General Office of the Government State Council. The Central Propaganda Bureau and its lower level affiliates control all domestic media, including the Internet, allowing only praise of the party and its policies. The Central Organization Bureau and its affiliates decide all of the appointments and dismissals of government officials at every level. The United Front Ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Central Military Committee control the population's thinking, foreign affairs, and the country's military respectively. The Political and Judiciary Committee controls the public security branches, the prosecutorate, and the judiciary bureaus. When it comes to important cases, the related investigations, defense, and sentencing of these cases all must follow the dictates of the Political and Judicial Committee. In order to facilitate the destruction of the people's thinking, the CCP has used and protected the black-and-white kidnapping of the people and determined to monitor the names of the residents, and wrote in the law. This includes the illegal funding of the law that the lawyer and his family do not notify for half a year. The party can arbitrarily create laws, change laws, carry out laws, and interpret laws. For instance, the CCP has written its common technique of kidnapping political opponents into the legal code, calling it, quote, official residential surveillance. The practice also includes language, which authorizes the use of the language as an example of the use of the language. Which authorizes the party to detain individuals for up to six months without having to notify family with unlimited possibility for extension. Under the protection of these evil laws, opponents are regularly sent away on, quote, travel at sensitive times, like the anniversary of Tiananmen, or detained or disappeared and tortured, or forced home from petitioning the government for unresolved official abuse and beaten or held in secret jails. And at any time, any given location can be transformed into a secret detention facility to torture and oppress the people. The law of the People's Republic of China states that any government organ or department can be turned into a spy organization in service of the party, while the Law on National Intelligence article says that the government organ or department can be turned into a spy organization in service of the party, while the Law on National Intelligence article 7 states that any organization or citizen must legally support, assist, and coordinate with national intelligence efforts. Any person can hence be forced into spying for the party to protect the control of the regime. You can see the extent to which the Communist Party has kidnapped the nation and coerced the government. The degree to which people have been thus enslaved is unprecedented. The cruelty of the methods employed make people tear their hair out with anger. There is simply nowhere to turn to address these grievances. Not only this, the CCP, through the great propaganda of the democratic countries, has broken up our free life. The CCP has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations and has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations. The CCP has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations.   Hearing my story and seeing how the CCP has armed itself to the teeth, people might feel despair and wonder whether I would still be able to escape today. Is there hope for democracy in China?  The CCP has built up the Tiananmen City. It is said that it has reached 200 million people and is still increasing. Over the years, the CCP has constantly developed the modern artificial intelligence technology developed by democratic countries to monitor the people, attack human rights defenders, and kill democratic movements to prevent China from achieving democracy. Since I left China, the CCP has built what is called the Sky Eye System. This melds over 200 million surveillance cameras throughout the country, together with artificial intelligence systems from western countries, such as facial recognition and movement recognition, for the purpose of tracking and controlling the Chinese people and controlling democratic movements in China. It is said that a long time ago, the Institute for Autonomous Research in China developed a multi-special system that can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. It can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. It can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. According to reports, the Chinese Scientific Institute's Center on Automation rolled out a movement recognition system that it's calling Water Drop Intelligent Eye. Apparently, it has an archive of movements as well as movement recognition data and search capabilities. It can share massive amounts of this data to supplement the potential of the Chinese scientific institute It can share massive amounts of this data to supplement the problems of clarity in the facial recognition system. Without the participation of western high-tech companies, the CCP would not be able to do this. How did the U.S. high-tech company help the CCP to build the international surveillance system? According to the Internet, Google, IBM, and this is called... Linux. Yeah, Linux. Cooperation. It established a public power fund that helps China's Hengyang company develop surveillance systems. Hengyang is selling to the CCP's national security system to the public to conduct large-scale surveillance. According to Hengyang company, their system can simultaneously monitor the Internet users on the top. The report also said that IBM is very secretive through cloud platforms and super buildings cooperating with Hengyang. American companies are helping the CCP build a nationwide surveillance system. According to the Lanjiannet report, Google, IBM, and Linux have collaborated to establish an open-strength foundation to assist the Shenzhen-based Hengyang company in creating surveillance processing machines which can simultaneously monitor hundreds of millions of accounts. Hengyang has then sold this to the CCP's national security system to track the Chinese people. The Lanjiannet also reports that IBM has collaborated with CCP-affiliated Hengyang and Chaoji Jujian companies via the cloud. In the end, the CCP has become a leader of the dictatorship. This is a huge challenge for the people to fight against the regime and to fight for freedom and human rights. This is the cost of controlling the people. In this way, the technology has led the development of human rights into a criminal organization. Such a short-term, and illegal trade-off method may be beneficial in the short term but will eventually cause a fire to burn itself. Technology should be for the benefit of humanity, but some multinational tech companies are partnering with this violent regime, motivated by short-term or other interests or some possibly not aware of what they were doing and they are becoming the accomplices of the dictatorship. These methods, although sometimes resulting in short-term gains, result in the long-term in self-inflicted harm. Any resource, if it is in the hands of a bad person, will result in bad things. Artificial intelligence, if it falls in the hands of dictatorships, will become that much more dangerous. Like the University of Pudu, Google, Apple, and other high-tech areas in the world, it is an extremely important institution. It cannot be done without the help of the CCP's dictatorship. It must be done with the help of the government, the government, the government, the government, the government, the government, and the government. If it is to prevent the fear of being obtained by the nuclear weapons, it is to prevent dictatorship from being used in modern technology. It is to monitor the people of this country or to sell it to other dictatorship and to maintain the special system of eating people. It is to prevent the use of artificial intelligence to criminalize human rights, to prevent high technology from falling into the hands of anti-terrorism, and to stop human development. Institutions like Purdue University and companies like Google and Apple are extremely important in the world of high technology. But they should not allow themselves to unwittingly become the accomplices of the CCP dictatorship and need to guard against the dictatorship acquiring high tech as fiercely as nuclear weapons technology is guarded from the hands of terrorists. Otherwise, the CCP will use this to monitor and control the people or will transfer this technology to other dictatorial regimes to protect other cannibalistic regimes. I strongly call on leaders of democratic nations to establish laws to prevent technology from falling into the hands of these regimes where it will be used to revert the progress of humanity. When I was under house arrest, the CCP had begun transforming the home I had used as a newlywed into a private jail for me and my family with bars extending from the roof into the concrete floor. Later, once I had escaped, they began planning an electrified netting that would have covered our entire yard expecting that I would have been recaptured after I fled to Beijing. Today, the party is creating a virtual electrified network to cover the entire nation. Can anyone escape the claws of this regime? The most important factor is the people. As long as you are confident, determined, and have the right to rule, you can hope for freedom. If you surpass the CCP in wisdom, you will be able to find the path to victory. To pursue freedom is the nature of people. I think the more pressure, the stronger the resistance. I believe it is possible to succeed in this. Of course, it is extremely difficult. The vast surveillance network is indeed a blow to the democracy movement and is a huge weight on the people's psychological well-being. However, I believe that what determines outcomes is people. As long as you have confidence and determination and know that justice is on your side and you thirst for freedom, you will find the path to overcome your enemies. The quest for freedom is innate within all of us. The constitution of the democratic constitution is a democratic society. The constitution of the democratic constitution is a democratic society. It is the most effective way to limit the power of the government and protect the social justice. It is the most effective way to protect the freedom of the government. China's transformation is now taking place by the thousands of regular people taking unusual action. People realize that ending authoritarian systems will cut off the root of the never-ending cycles of hardship that have befallen the Chinese people. Building a constitutional democratic system with balances of power moving towards rule of law and a justice society using structures to ensure freedoms and human rights will protect social justice, individual freedoms and respect in the best way possible. Sons and daughters of China are fighting every minute for freedom and ask that the American people stand with us. To give our grandchildren and future generations a chance to live free of harms from communist dictatorship please take hands together and bravely strive forth to throw the communist authoritarians in the waist-deep of history. Nothing is impossible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can I go now? Just talk about it. I'm happy that you're here. The question is let me raise my some of the facts here. Since that your main thing is that the China state is fundamentally a tyranny that is evil that oppresses humanity and the Chinese people as a whole but if the party and the government oppresses its people how does it make sense that as so this is the data from 2016 from work banks and also from CNA website that in China currently there are there are only there are only 3.1% of people who are living under the national poverty line while compared to some other countries like Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Switzerland United Kingdoms and the United States are all above 10% while India has 20% of population who are currently living under the national poverty line which is interesting because India and China both started as an independent country near the late 1940s and India is a pretty much a typical UK style parliamentary political system and now if China as an authoritarian regime who oppresses everything how does it make sense that India currently today is sort of lagging behind and your question how do you justify these facts I I I I don't I don't agree with your data I think that it's likely false no matter where you're saying that it's coming from every day I'm talking to people in China I know that there's no way that those numbers reflect the reality in China I think it's even in looking at the numbers that China puts out I think the reality is more like 8 to 10 times 8 to 10 times the reality is more like 8 to 10 times greater than what the CCP is saying in another instance of that kind of fabrication of numbers the Communist Party is typically saying that 90% of disabled people in China are employed and I know for a fact that's absolutely bogus and one thing I can say that that is true about data like this is that over 50% of the Chinese population is now not in China but in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it is now not rural it's not in China it's not in China more than 50% of the population is a rural population and this is because of the amount of land the amount of land it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China rural people have are allotted 600 square meters of land and if each person were allotted that amount of land what would they be planting our next question oh hand over hi thank you just as we all know that Chinese government and the CCP are both fighting on education on the youngsters even from the kindergarten at the youngsters educated to not conflict with the CCP and so you know we are lucky Chinese still have the opportunity to study abroad in Purdue but most of the Chinese have no such chances to study abroad we are living in China if they express their objective of their objection they would be prostrate so I think it's not optimistic so I wonder if how many how how people living in China to behave they are innumerous they can't express their objection so I think the democracy in China can outspeak about thank you I ask you it's too long before you did you expect that oh how about you have to wait for me to translate first because otherwise nobody knows what you're saying I want to ask you a question which is in 1990 would you have expected that the Soviet Union would have disintegrated I can give you two examples the first example is about the U.S. Embassy after the announcement the U.S. Embassy in Weibo there were 726 messages the CCP quickly deleted it only left 13 what information that the party is sending out about the situation in China and I can give you the things that people are seeing about information in China is not true I can give you an example one comes from the website of the American Embassy in Beijing when the American Embassy announced some terms of the trade war with China on the website they were very quickly appeared 726 comments and very quickly deleted 713 and almost immediately 713 of those were deleted and so there were only over a dozen that were remaining and whatever the content of those remaining on the website I think everybody can probably guess that the Chinese name is not simply seen on the surface and these kinds of examples online are very prevalent in China and so I think it shows that you have to look deeper to find the reality of what's going on in China so in 2008 I remember he showed us this evidence this evidence can be seen online and I can't I don't have this next question the last one yes I think this thing in Hong Kong for more than three months the strong will of the people of Hong Kong has been shown it can't be tolerated especially since 2003 on the 23rd of the National Security Law 500,000 people were on the streets to protest without any restrictions and after that the CCP controlled and controlled Hong Kong's warm waters the last step is to tie all these criminals all the way to the mainland to go to jail showing the world what Hong Kong people think about living under an authoritarian regime in 2003 5,000,000 people came out on the streets to protest the articles that were trying to change the laws in Hong Kong and Hong Kong people are now sick and tired of living under situations like the frog put in the water that slowly boils it to death actually in mainland China a lot of people are clear about what happened to Hong Kong it's just not on the internet and in mainland China people are very aware of what's going on in Hong Kong but they are just not willing to talk about it openly online and the communist party is also worried exactly about what's happening in Hong Kong so much as how the protests are going to influence mainland China and from what we're seeing it's not that the communist party doesn't want to suppress the protests but it doesn't dare to do that so the communist party cannot go against the tide of history democracy will come and the authoritarian regime will eventually have to fall okay next question next question next question next question next question next question there are two ways one is to strengthen the ability of people to get online and get information and the other one is to weaken the ability of the strength of the party in oppressing people and regarding the second point I've just in my lecture talked about establishing laws to prevent technology from being transferred to authoritarian countries and another way is to develop technologies that will allow Chinese people to get over the firewall and to get information much more easily if you look the whole world over I don't think you'll find one person that doesn't want to have more information and have more freedom anybody would want that except for maybe sick people okay next thank you next question so I want to ask you a question as you said 1% of the wealth in the United States for college studies and it seems like their ideologies most of them difference than yours or even a lot of us here. It seems like we're living in a parallel universe. What do you mean by that? Ideology. Oh, ideology. Sorry. Ideology is very different than yours. There are a lot of people here in the United States. What would be some of the things that you would recommend to me or us to better communicate with those who have very good ideologies? I don't think actually that at the kind of basic level that as human beings we have really that much of a difference in our ideas. The philosopher from ancient China, Zhuang Zi, said that a frog living in a well in a village is not going to understand the ocean, what the ocean is. But if you just take the frog and throw it in the ocean, it's going to get it. So unless it's somebody who's pretending to be asleep, most people are going to come around. But if it's somebody who is coming from this very privileged place, then they're not really going to understand the ocean, they're going to understand it. So I think that in the United States, if you just take the frog and throw it in the ocean, it's going to come around. But if it's somebody who is coming from this very privileged place, then you're not really talking about the same thing. And this kind of a person from a privileged background is going to be wanting to protect his or her own interests. So it's not from a place of wanting to fight for justice. Hi. Okay. And that is, what can, is there anything else that U.S. people can do to support Chinese people for freedom? If we don't have technical skills or we don't have, you know, special abilities to affect the sale of technology, what should you do? Okay. Good question. Yeah. I have an example. When I first came to America, I quickly got in touch with Congress to try to urge them to expand the Magnexy Act to cover the entire world. There's one of the realities in the world is that a lot of CCP members and the CCP in general is always cursing America and saying terrible things about America. But then the same people will be lining up to move to America. So they're singing the song of socialism is great, but then they're running towards capitalism, the arms of capitalism. And they're taking their ill-gotten wealth and sending it to America. And the Global Magnexy Act says that if there are corrupt officials who are violating human rights, then the U.S. can use its law to prohibit those people from coming to America and from sending their capital here. If these people continue to do evil things, this is a very good method. So that sounds taking legal actions in a democracy. Over there? Yes. Thank you so much for coming in. I was wondering if you could speak to the persecution of the Uyghurs, the Muslim minority in China, and what technology specifically has enabled that persecution of such a large scale? The situation in Xinjiang is extremely serious right now, the Uyghurs, especially in relation to the surveillance system. Now people who are going into Xinjiang will be checked and the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to Xinjiang will be checked and their phones will be taken and software will be put on their phones. I think one way to approach it is to look at it from a legal perspective. There's nowhere in the legal code that says that any of this should be allowed to happen. So what the Chinese Communist Party is doing right now is completely illegal. And in the legal code, there's a law against breaking the law. And it's a crime. So we need to hold them accountable under this law. It's very clear in the Constitution clearly stated that the Chinese people have the right to religious freedom. But in reality, we see that no matter whether the Catholic Church was forced to demolish or something that happened in Xinjiang and Tibet, we can clearly see that this law is obviously being built by the Communist Party. But in reality, what we're seeing is that in practice all of that can be thrown out, whether it's Christians who were persecuted and their churches are torn down or it's what's happening in Tibet or in Xinjiang, the Communist Party can just rip up its own laws. So I don't think we should be in a place where we're thinking about, well, if you have a headache, let's just look at your head.  We can't think of it as, you know, if Muslims are being persecuted, we have to talk about that. If churches are being torn down, we talk about Christians or Tibetans, we need to look at it from a larger perspective. In 1998, China signed on to the international agreement on civil rights and political rights, an international agreement on civil and political rights. But to this day, it has not put that into practice. I think we should consider that if the Chinese Communist Party does not follow the international agreement that it has signed on to, that it should leave the UN. And I think we need to resolve this issue from a fundamental level where people's rights are being abused and people are being oppressed. They hope it. In the back. Hello. You said that the Chinese Communist Party is willing to do anything to maintain their absolute power even by stealing freedom from Chinese people. But I'm wondering why there are a number of Chinese people still supporting the Chinese government or even some people studying here, living here, even some Purdue students supporting the Chinese government or some of them being a Chinese Communist Party member. And that's still very important. I'm not Chinese, but I'm wondering why. I've already talked a little bit about that. One of the reasons is that a lot of these people that you're talking about come from privileged classes. They come from the Communist Party membership. The other thing is because there are still Americans who hope to see communism becoming a reality. I think the most important thing is to think about what the Chinese, what do Chinese people want. Sometimes individuals, the actions, you can kind of overlook what individual people are doing.  And he was known for saying all kinds of bad things about America. And then suddenly one day, he moved to America. And people online asked him why he'd done this. And he said, well, cursing America was my job. Living in America is about my life. So sometimes you don't need to pay too much attention to what some of these people are saying. Unless that person is moving to North Korea, then you can really believe them. OK, next question. You've been living in Korea for many years. You probably know that, accordingly, Communist Party or even member of it, or even better, I mean, junior teams could possibly bring a lot of extra revenue, a lot of more opportunities in your society. And if that keeps on the trend, it seems easier for most people to join the Communist Party or to support it instead of standing behind the lane. How difficult would you think that? Or is there a possible way that in person or that you can get out of the system, but still gain success and influence? Yeah, I think a lot of people are now joining the party for the benefit of the party, and not really agree with the concept of the party. Yeah, I think a lot of people who are still joining the Communist Party are doing it because of the benefits, not because they actually believe in the party. They're seeing that the best way for them is to have a family in China as officials, and then to take over the blood of Chinese people. They live in the United States, enjoying American freedom, driving a car. Maybe that's the best choice. They're seeing that the best possible route is to become a party and develop off of the benefit from the blood and the sweat of the Chinese people, and then live in America off of that money and drive a nice car. That's what people are thinking is the best route. And in China, most of the resources are monopolized by the Communist Party. So in order to have any part in that, the only way forward is to join the party. Most people know that outside of China and other countries, what the party does has to be paid for by the party itself. It's not paid from the national coffers. But in China, the party uses money that it belongs to the nations, from the nation's coffers. So when you become part of the Chinese Communist Party, your opportunities grow. OK, thank you. Next, I'll pass it over there. I just want to say that the consensus data that's out there with a lot of countries has a lot of resources. So I wonder what are some sources we're using to find out more about our options. Are we going to come back? There are actually a lot of resources to look at. There is an academic not long ago recently named Xiang Songsu who was researching GDP information. And there was a video that went up online about it. And he said that the GDP was only going up by about 1.69%. And it is possible to find information on this. However, the video was very quickly taken down. OK, the last question. OK. Unfortunately, we're on tour, but it's going to respond to the first question asked about India and China. Will surpass China in population that is right from India. Yeah, can you state the question? Yes, I ask the question. I have two things to say. I have one comment to make and one question to ask. One comment is that we accept, as Indians, that there might be a great income disparity between poor and rich, but at least we can send our prime minister home if the government doesn't work, let the minorities function in the country peacefully. And many other things that come under the freedoms given by the Constitution of India. My question is about there always is going about what is happening inside China because we also share many conflicts, border conflicts. So what are some of the news sources that we can use to understand about the situation, especially in the regions of Tibet and Chinese Indian borders? I think there are actually many different sources of information.  Basically, they really go to China to understand the situation of the Chinese people. There are not many foreigners. There are many paths to find out more information.  I think if you really want to understand what's happening in China, you have to go to rural areas and look at what's happening there. And there were NGOs in China who were working before the year 2000 who did some really great reports. And of course, because of that data that was coming out, the Chinese Communist Party decided they didn't, and the influence that was having on society, they wanted to put an end to the work that NGOs were doing, and they made a law to limit the work that NGOs can do. And it put a major damper on the ability of NGOs to operate in China. He took it to the US, the Japanese government, and when they got the data, they quickly sent it to the Japanese government, and they all had the data. But when he started in China as a researcher, he personally met a great group of people. And there was a professor at Tsinghua University who was looking into some of these issues and doing some comparisons, and he wanted to get some information from Japan and made some calls. very quickly got the information that he needed, but then we tried to get the same information from the Chinese side, there are walls that are immediately put up. So if the numbers are correct, then why would they be worried about somebody doing an investigation, doing research? So now, in China, there is a saying, so the people online have a saying about the Chinese Communist Party, which is, with regard to what they're saying, don't believe anything, even the punctuation. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for our speaker. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. And also, thank you to our translator, Miss Miu. And thank you all for your participation. Thank you. Thank you. Good night.


This is RPO hang it. Yep.   Oh my god? Mine man, you know, what do you want me to tell you boys like I mean I kind of did that This will be my third Super Bowl For the Eagles did lose when I watched it at home, and they won when I went so that's a big deal You know, that's a thought for the boys Krabby the world is just so Like whatever you can do to be a crab is mad. That's it.   It's just no one like has any pride.  Oh my god, you didn't even look at the dude apparently screen is the best world apparently It's literally the best. Oh, this is RPO hang it. Yep. I can hate dude to get me. Yeah, dog What pass commit do I need to like dude? Oh my god? Mine man, just I just be pissed off, bro.   They got to do crabs. I'm cool. Where I'm at I'm cool. I'm fine. I just got a pass commit like un un no stop pass commit is what I got to do I just see boys. Good work. I I'm going like dude.   Good play man. Good. Awesome Todd father the Todd father running people over But he's got the Todd father and RPOs Bubble screens watch out now Way people played his game.   Definitely dog. You're high powered on defense Go back to RPOs man. That's your wheelhouse is RPOs defense. Not so much RPOs. Yeah, that's your wheelhouse That's where you stay RPOs, but they got Todd father so they could score Oh, they put Todd father in the game. Let me let everybody score. Everybody scores with Todd father. Yeah Everybody could score with that Todd father. Yay fun football.   Go play somebody else Do y'all begin frustrated men like how I begin frustrated? Do y'all get frustrated like me or it's just this is me Am I special? Is there something wrong with me? Am I wired differently now? I'm just waiting for the DM to walk through my line.  Is that how you feel sometimes this is the game got to play for him Don't it the game got to play for him. Just holding around holding why God dude, are you kidding me?  What's my right guard? Fannica ain't it dog. Am I getting just I understand I'm kicking the out of a man And I understand I'm understanding games over but holy shit. Are we just getting instant shetted right now? Every drop back we can't break one tackle for me there buyers.   Yeah. Yeah scumbag demon. That's why I played scumbag demon good match covers, bro Good match covers, bro. You're genius, huh drop that kid. Oh, we dropped that are you like trolling me right now? Why would you do I swear to God this this right guard has been just dominating me this game born sapper double or nothing He's just absolutely hoarding me and get off my field too, man. Most miserable experience of my life right there That was awesome. Yeah, I want to work. Yeah, I want to work. Of course. I want to work You know why cuz I don't have no choice. That's why I want to work. Oh My god like really dude Cool cool offense, bro. Good job game. Just gave you four yards. How do you feel about that? You paid for four yards. Oh Look quad father's not in it. Look we get nothing. Oh my god. Let's put quad father back in the game Yep, look look little pass commit. Let's go man. Bummer off my field. They'd be lost without quad father That's why they have a million people Catch that's what I got to do now. No more high ball. Just throw it right at him red zone threat. Let's go That was a lamp though. I had to see what happened could have been picked, but that's why we pay for red zone threat He wouldn't have caught that with a high ball. They need to give Jalen hurts quad father or something Oh, yeah, quad father's gonna get him yards here boys. Yes Good yards from the quad father strong three right there. There you go again There's the again quad father. Let's go. Oh My god, dude W.   I'm ready to play Hogwarts at the beat in this kid twice in a row, dude Like he's just having so much fun right now.  They'll be if he passes Like how the is that like oh like players are on the ground. I have a player literally on the ground.  It's just bro. It's really dumbish. This is how it works. It's like, okay You think like there should be no way. I can't defend me. There should be no way You got a pass commit ten times to stop a wire see the screen, right? And then when you pass commit to get pancakes, so what are my options get screened or get pancakes? Is that my as those are those my options?  I mean, we got to catch that bro. I look like it was about a guard one way Then it went the other way it was tough. I write guard on the ground every play Fumble the ball, dude.  I don't need it.  That's a that's a Dot, huh? Don't you got to give this bulls up Quad father. Is he done blinking? Is he done blinking yet? I mean how in the world did we just get Wopped like that dude. How in the world?  My line has gotten Railed like absolutely just railed. Of course, we're not able to fill well here.  Oh It's just miserable man. It really is. Are you sick?  That's such a bluff. It look like that dude gonna cover him for an hour Dude Brady cannot throw a slant. I miss that those so much with Brady.  I just would never understand why my dude just don't go out there and fumble like what are we doing right now that? We're not guarding that let's go hit man. Stop qualify by himself.   I don't lose tackle battles What I look like what do I look like I do this for a living good block right there burst I'm so glad you went and blocked the corner on the outside. It's just absolutely Reamed that right there. Oh my god, bro. Three rectors is saving this dude, bro first Let's go. Good job. Like the three rack is so tough man. I sort of got it Yeah, quit again to in a row Hogwarts, yeah, I'm correct. It got a little difficult of a night. I can't lie. I get my combat down on the Hogwarts I'm not dead tough yet. I'm not tough yet


le to part-time workers. Part-time workers, for example, are less likely to get access to training opportunities, they are less likely to get to career development, they are less likely to be promoted. There are lots of sectors in which part-time working is, if you look at the retail sector, part-time working is very common. We know that lots of people work part-time in the retail sector in order to be able to balance work and family life, but when you start to move into promoted posts, team leaders, first line managers posts, they are much less likely to be part-time. Is there any particular reason why that's the case? You can't see on the face of it that the nature of the work requires it to be done full-time. In fact, for lots of work, it's very difficult to see why it can't be done full-time, but it's about the opportunities that are available for high-quality work on a part-time basis. Maybe then women and men could equally opt to engage in part-time work. Follow-up from Dean Lockhart. He was on this point about helping women to return to work after having children or for other reasons. Traditionally, in the past, I believe that women have benefited from part-time college courses to update their skills, which they have been able to take back into the workplace. We have seen quite a big cut in part-time vocational college places. Does that have a disproportionate effect on women returning to work? Should we be looking to reinstate some of those vocational-based college places to assist women and others returning to work? I don't know if I've read anything that gives me any evidence on that. Most people who are returning to work are returning to their original employer. In a sense, there have been things put in place at UK levels, for example, like return to work days to try and keep people connected to their organisation. I don't know of the impact on people who are returning to a different employer and would require some kinds of skills upgrading or skills retention. I would like to ask a slightly related question. Is there any research to show gender pay gap according to social background in terms of disparity of wealth? I appreciate that statistics are limited, but is there any research to show that the gender pay gap may be different according to the wealth background or social background? I think that Fiona referenced earlier the fact that there are different things going on at the lower pay desiles. If you look at the lowest pay desile, that is where the lowest gender pay gap is. We will assume that people in the lowest pay desile are also likely to be disproportionately from a working-class background. Therefore, there is a lower gender pay gap because what you have got there are effectively regulated wages by the national minimum wage. As you move up through the occupational hierarchy in the different pay desiles, we see a class effect—I think that Fiona might pick up on that—but particularly relating to professional work, so we know that there is a class effect in relation to professional and managerial work. People with the same qualifications, occupying the same jobs, are likely to be paid less. We do not protect for that very well in the UK. I have just been given the answer, thank you very much. Perhaps you can share that with us later. We are coming towards the end of our time here today, but I thought that it might be throw this open to all of our guests. The question is, what is the single biggest issue that in your view is preventing greater economic participation of women in the Scottish economy? I do not know who would like to come back on that point. Emily Thomson, first of all. That is a hard question, the single biggest issue. I can only answer from my own perspective, which, as a feminist economist, is about how we value market and non-market work. When we talk about economic participation, we want more women to participate in the economy. I would like to see as recognising that women are participating in the economy, but that their contribution is not always paid. For me, it is about trying to change those structures and our value systems that could make more recognition of the productive work that women are already engaging in the home. Professor Wall. That is a difficult question. There is not the answer that you are looking for, possibly. As the discussion around the table has indicated, what is required is a systemic response that, of all the issues that have been picked up, because it is not only that there are lots of issues, those issues themselves reinforce things. The discussion that was had around wages of nursery workers and gender representation, you get into a series of negative circling down or positive circling up, and you need to tackle everything systemically. The great strength of a committee's piece of work like this is that it can come up with a series of interlinked systemic recommendations that, as they are implemented, start doing things in a much better way. Thank you. Any of our other guests would like to come in. Professor Loretta. I would very much like to endorse what Emily Thompson said. I think that that is absolutely the main issue across, but if I can just stick to the later life working at the moment, it is the lack of flexible working opportunities at later working life that recognise the changing balance between paid and unpaid work. Dr Merkeuver. To me, it is not an immediate solution, but the first thing that comes to my mind when we talk about gender gap is the stereotypes that we are feeding to our children. I think that it is a long-term solution, but that is where we have to start. Once you expose children to stereotypes, you planted the seed and from that point on it only grows. Any further comments from our panel members on that point? And no further questions from committee members. Thank you very much. I would like to thank all of our guests today for coming in, and we will now suspend this session and move to private session, allowing time for the public gallery to clear. Thank you very much.


If you're being slandered, I want to pray with you. It hurts when others talk about you and slander you. There may be an urge within you to set the record straight and defend yourself. And while there are times to clarify things, most of the time, it's best to just give it to Jesus. So Lord, we bring this to you now. And I pray for that one who is under attack, that one who's being slandered, that one who's being misunderstood. And I pray, Lord, that you would give them strength, give them focus, encourage them now, bring joy to them now, and help them, Lord, to look to the future, and help them, Lord, to remember that you love them and that you're for them. In Jesus' name, we pray. And I want you to say it because you believe it, say amen.


It's estimated that at least 1 in 100 people have borderline personality disorder, or BPD. In this video, we'll talk about what it's like to have the disorder, as well as how people can recover from it. Here are some of the issues people with BPD face. Significant difficulty, controlling and regulating emotions, otherwise known as emotional liability. Uncertainty of self, what psychiatrists call an unstable self-image. Having intense and unstable relationships repeatedly, which can involve idealising people, then intensely disliking or devaluing them, in relatively short intervals. Feeling an urgent need to avoid being abandoned by other people, even if the abandonment is only imagined. A chronic feeling of emptiness, repeatedly acting in impulsive and risky ways. As you can see, it's a picture of instability. To add to these challenges, BPD is currently under-recognised, and the availability of specific services is limited. The reason may include the ongoing social stigma of mental health conditions, or the challenges that health professionals face in treating BPD. It is quite possible to treat it, but more on that later. Imagine a good friend of yours has BPD. You tell them something about your new partner, and they react ferociously. If you've been hurt by them in one of their more severe episodes of instability, you might struggle to feel empathy towards them. But it's important not to blame the person in such situations, it's not their fault, after all. So what is the cause of BPD? Well, it isn't fully understood. Currently a combination of biological factors and early life experiences such as trauma is thought to contribute to the development of BPD. In diagnosis, psychiatrists attempt to observe a pattern of these features mentioned before. These must be considered inflexible, pervasive, long-standing, and must lead to clinically significant distress or impairment. In terms of recovery, the best treatment results have been shown with a branch of psychological counselling known as dialectical behavioural therapy. Dialectical means concerned with opposing forces, which here are acceptance and change. Think of some of the challenges mentioned earlier. Then consider how that might affect a relationship between a health professional and a person with BPD. It's important to engage clinicians who have thorough experience and understanding of this condition, given that the maintenance of a strong therapeutic relationship is integral to positive outcomes. It may take several goes, but strong improvements are possible. In this video, I've tried to show the challenge and complexity of living with, as well as treating, BPD. A recent Australian Senate committee stated that an inter-marginalisation of this disorder within the community and the mental health sector is urgently needed. And we'll leave it on that note. See you next time.


Hi Virgo, welcome back to my channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. Virgo, this is gonna be your weekend love reading for the 23rd, 23rd through the 26th of June. This is a love reading, so please be mindful, it's general, okay? So it may or may not resonate for all of you. All right, Virgo, let's get started, see what the love messages are for the weekend coming up for you in love. What does Virgo need to know? What are the messages for Virgo? Virgo, sun, moon rising, or Venus? Oh, okay, you have the hanged man. So, hmm, a new perspective. Hmm, seeing things differently, I feel like getting, or getting, or having an open mind over the weekend, okay? This is Piscian energy. So, hmm, seeing things differently. Look at this, Virgo, somebody's seeing things differently this weekend, making some changes. Okay, six of swords, hmm, thinking about traveling, perhaps over the weekend. Somebody's having a change of perspective, change of mind, I'm hearing actually, plans have changed, I'm on my way, okay? So, hmm, who could that be? Somebody's getting some faith, facing their fears, and doing something, going somewhere, coming out of some type of chaotic emotional, tumultuous waters, getting into more calmer waters, it might be a trip. Somebody's changing their mind about a trip, okay? And is actually taking a trip, okay? Going somewhere, let's see, okay. So, there's communication happening over this weekend. Hey, I've changed my mind. In fact, I will go, or I will come, okay? So, this might be a phone call, either you're calling somebody, or texting someone, or receiving it, about a changed mind about a trip. Yes, I'm gonna do this, yes, okay.  Things have changed, plans have changed. Interesting, all right, let's see. Six of wands, wow, this is shocking. Tower, this is shocking energy coming in here. Bergo, this kind of feels like an unexpected message over the weekend, where somebody's changing their mind about something, and yes, they're going to do it. Whether that's travel, or somebody's been hesitant, or stuck, couldn't make up their mind, they're having like a light bulb moment, could be you. And it's like, yeah, we're gonna do this, yes, I'm gonna do this, okay. This is like victory. Somebody got there, okay, this is kind of, like they're telling me like a bolt to the ego, like, this is crazy. Somebody very much up in their ego and being kind of like, it's weird, it's like coming down off their high horse, that's what I'm hearing, somebody's coming down off their high horse, like spirit is, this is like, boom, like a wow, like, you know what I mean? I don't know if I'm saying that right, I can feel the energy, it's like this person, I feel like they were in this, you know, my ish don't stink, or you know, I'm a big shot or whatever, and you know, universe comes in and strikes them down, and like a wake up call, that's what I feel like somebody here is having kind of a wake up call, like and changing their mind, and saying yes to something. Okay, what other energies are playing out here for you, Virgo? This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy. It's, this feels like it's going to be a surprise, yeah, a decision, somebody's making a decision, okay?  You know, but mostly I feel like this is the energy that's playing out for you, so if you're, if you're making your mind up about doing something great, but this feels like another person here who was just kind of like, either had commitment issues, or they just didn't want to, they may be just very stubborn, and they prefer to just have the fantasy rather than the actual, like the real thing, and it feels like this person's like, the spirit's coming down, and some kind of, something major is happening to this person that's kind of giving them this wake up call, so I said Pisces, the tower could be Aries or Scorpio, so yeah, this person is like, what was I thinking? It's like coming in here and making this decision, oh my gosh, Page of Cups, yeah, this person's like overflowing with emotion, you know? First, there's going to be some type of communication, you know, I've thought about it, or I see things differently, you're not going to know that this person is getting hit with like a tower moment, this is something that's happening to them, where, I don't know, like I said, I don't know if this person felt like they were just kind of always seeking applause or attention, or they were just in a position where they were getting a lot of, and it's like, boom, that's just not working, or that's not enough for this person, okay? So this is kind of like something here that's happening to this person separately, okay? Okay, and also the wake up call is like, this person feels like they want to be like, have victory with you, okay? Page of Cups, definitely going to be some type of communication, you know? If you've had somebody blocked, like it's kind of stirring them up to, like they're thinking about you more, and they're overwhelmed with emotion and love. I feel like they're going to volunteer their feelings. This is like a tidal wave of emotion here, okay? Definitely going to be communicating with you. First about, hey, I'm going to be going your way, and then talking about like I've been thinking about things, and I'm really sorry, could be an apology, and I want to connect with you, and I'm ready, I want to be together.  Now this might not play out for all of you this weekend, so don't get upset, because every weekend I do a reading, but somebody's going to get this energy, okay? If it's not already happening, all right, let's see if there's any other messages for the weekend for you guys. Any other messages for Virgo? Oh my God, oh my, so cups. This is like a weekend of love, a weekend of love, Virgo. This is like a brand new beginning in love. I mean, your heart is going to be like, holy, are you serious with this? Is this like, this is like shocking. You're not expecting this, or you were hoping for somebody to make a change, or see things differently, or they were just very stubborn, and maybe they couldn't express their emotions, or they struggled to express their feelings. Well, like this is going to happen very quickly with the ace of cups, five of wands. Yeah, somebody's like feeling left down the cold, fighting some pretty heavy battles. I feel like this person, whoever they are, is in this energy of like, I got to fight my way back, I got to get back to Virgo. I need to connect with Virgo. They're not in a good place, you know? And they may not have been in this wake-up call. I feel like this tower moment, I wouldn't be surprised if the judgment card shows up because I feel like this person is like, major lipo to the crown chakra, major lipo. Yeah, look, what's the lipo? The three of swords, heartbroken, feeling the loss. Okay, what are you doing, Virgo? Okay, you're in sitting here in anxiety, you have some stress. You don't know this is happening, okay? You don't know that this energy is gonna be playing out with this person. And I feel like right now, you're in anxiety about this, because you don't know whether you're coming or going, you're kind of like, even if you do know, you're just nine of swords, 10 of wands, like you're physically and mentally exhausted. Okay, you're on the verge of a mental breakdown in your life because of somebody who, I feel like was just really not seeing the light or not really recognizing their feelings for you, 100% their feelings. It would be a Sagittarius energy here. So, yeah, this person, well, you're definitely trying to balance yourself. You're trying to get more balanced. I mean, I don't really feel like you have anything to worry about. I feel like you've been healing in private. So we have Pisces again, but I don't feel like you have anything to be really concerned if you're over worrying or overthinking about what someone's going to do, or if anybody, if like, some of you are like, you know, I've walked away from this relationship, but you know, my heart's still there. I'm still struggling. There's still residual, you know, some of you are already with someone new and you know, you're really trying to have this newness and this new love, you know, and some of you aren't looking back on the past and you're just trying to heal and get away from this energy.  Well, that seems to be changing here.   You know, you've just been like, you don't want nothing to do. Some of you just went quiet. You went into like, you know, I always feel like the hermit is the male version of Virgo and I always feel like the high priestess is the female version of Virgo, right?  You're not seeking wisdom because you already know, right? The high priestess, like, the hermit goes within and kind of isolates and then seeks wisdom and inspiration and that kind of thing. But the high priestess is like, no, I already, I'm already aware of this situation. Like, I know how I'm feeling. I'm like, I trust myself. It's a struggle and I have a lot of anxiety and maybe some nightmares. There's a lot of mental conflict. I'm physically exhausted. It's affecting my work, but you know, I'm, some of you have just gone within to seek balance and try to get yourselves in like a much better position here. But you know that somebody's been breadcrumbing you, but I feel like Virgo, this person, is seeing things differently and something in their life is happening that is causing this. I don't know if it's some kind of accident or they become homeless, you know, or something, they were at the top of their game and then, you know, their ego is shot and they're not a big shot anymore.  Like nobody's paying attention to me. Nobody really is interested and Virgo is the only one who's like really giving me putting in effort and really giving me that time of day. You know, and it's like, that's what I feel like this person is just, it just feels like their ego. It's like a shock to the ego. Yeah, a lot of you have just been like with the night of pentacles things are just going so slow.  Cause like you've been waiting and you're just like, I can keep doing this and I've been waiting for this person and now I'm like no longer waiting for them. Now I'm seeing who else might be out there. You know, and guess what? This person is like, hey, calling you up, sending you a message, reaching out. You know, they've had a change of heart. Things are different. They, you know, they may tell you that they realize that they're not that big of a deal and nobody's paying attention to them.  But I just kind of feel like some of you are just, you're not going, you know, you're not doing anything here. Let me see what other, before I pull, all right, so what they said, let me, oh, there you go. Okay, for some of you, yeah, this person is coming in wanting another chance.  You already know the answer you seek and some of you are just like, it's not going anywhere. I give up, surrender, moving on. It's whatever, I'm not pursuing, I'm not putting effort into this anymore. And now this person, you know, coming in wants another chance or whoever it is that you're dating, you know, they're really trying to put the effort in here. Okay, that's great. Good for them. Okay, see, you're doing the self-care thing. Clear your energy field and focus on yourself, right, before acting. So this is a soulmate connection here. Your soulmate loves, accepts, and respects you unconditionally. So lean on your inner circle during this time, Virgo.  Or maybe it just made you feel that way, whether they were doing that. I don't know if that person was doing that, but I definitely feel like with the six of wands, way up in that ego, okay. I lost myself for a little while. I couldn't let you get close to me. That's what the issue was happening with this person. And I left before you could leave me.  Like their world is crashing down, whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally, geographically, things aren't going well for this person. Like it's not that, you know, or it's just a sudden thing that happens or they wake up or they realize like, wow, you know, I'm not, people really aren't, maybe when they were younger, people were really like, they could get a lot of attention, garner a lot of attention, but it doesn't seem like that's really happening for this person. I know some of you must be laughing in the live chat about this because I can just hear it. Some of you must be like, ha, you know, you're so vindictive, but it's just what it is, you know? I feel you leaving me behind. See, Virgo, this person's like, they sense definitely that you're like, I'm out of here, that's it.  Let's take a look and see what the Chinese sign is of this person. What is this person's Chinese sign? Okay, so year of the monkey. Okay, we have a year of the pig. Year of the goat. Year of the rat. Double pig. Year of the rooster. Double rat. Year of the ox. I'll get two more. We got rooster again. Year of the tiger. And ox again. And year of the dragon. So that could be you. It could be them. It could be both of you. It could be none of you. The message is for whoever the message is for, okay? If the rest of the story resonates, then that's for you. All right, I just wanna get a couple other cards here. Let me see. What other messages are there here for Virgo this weekend? So basically, you know, a shocking message. Like somebody's coming, they're either coming back or it's someone that you're currently connected with and there's like a wake up call. Like, oh, you know. Either way, like whether it's a past person, maybe you already left and they're just realizing now that you're actually gone, you could have left a while ago.  Or not you, the other person.  Okay, the Phoenix, new phase, rekindling, renewing, a renewal, transformation, growth and a changed freaking mind. There you go. That's what I said. Somebody's got a new perspective and they're changing their mind and I feel like you're gonna hear from this person about this over the weekend.  Where did this person come from? It just came like out of the blue. Like all of a sudden, just like that, what happened? I feel like Virgo, you're gonna be more curious about this than shocked, really. Like at first the message is gonna be a shock that they're, but then I feel like you're gonna be, what the heck, you know, healing heart. That's what I just saw here. Okay, healing from heartbreak, freedom from toxic relationship or addiction.  They were in a toxic situation and they, you know, getting themselves straightened out. Okay, all right. Healthy choices, there you go. Making healthy choices and loving in life. Self love, self care, being happier.  It's like exactly what I was saying. You know, this person is like healing whatever this, maybe an addiction or some type of toxic behavior. They could have been like a serial dator or just very immature, you know, or whatever the energy was. And now making healthier choices, like the Phoenix is rising. I'm telling you this tower.  You know, this is an exception to the rule. I feel like I have to keep it honest, okay? Not all of you are gonna get this message, okay? Let me just be very clear, not all of you. Maybe like if there's say 25, 30,000 views on this, maybe 1%, all right? So, you know, it's a jackpot sometimes, you know? It's a general reading, you know? If anything, let's be happy for the people that this is happening to, you know? Cause there's some people here are just like, this is what I wanted. I've needed this person. This is my person, but I couldn't wait around and I needed them to get themselves together. And this is like holy, like you can't even believe it.  That's what I said. And this, like Spirit is talking right to me today. Somebody here is, this love call is coming in, phone call, you know, a text of some sort. Somebody wants to talk to you, expressing their love, a message of love, thinking of you, letting you know. Oh my God, girl. All right, let's get some charms. Let's get some numbers and charms here. Okay. They have Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn. Let's Scorpio again. All right. So we've got, okay. All right, September 4th, September 11th, September 1st. September 12th, September 6th. We have 1111. Okay, this is Twin Flame for sure. Might have been Twin Flames in separation or some type of, for some of you it's a soulmate, for others it's a Twin Flame connection. Let's see what other signs we have. So double Scorpio and Capricorn, and double Capricorn. Okay, Sagittarius, double Capricorn again, and a Taurus. Okay. Okay, now we have Pisces, Aries, Taurus again, and Scorpio again. All right, I'm gonna give it one more for the signs. Okay, Virgo, Scorpio again, Gemini, and Taurus. So all right, somebody's born in 1966. Let's see. We've got November 4th, January 1st, April 11th. February 1st, okay. Somebody is born in 1960. Okay, let me get a couple more. Okay, August 22nd, that's a new one. I think that's Leo. Could be on the cusp though of Leo Virgo. Somebody could be on the cusp of Leo Virgo. We have August 26th. Okay, somebody's 51. Ericode 910, 701 or 710. 6227 is a number or a phone number. Number's in a phone number. 6227, okay. And somebody is born in 1971. 1980, birth date. Okay, somebody's 35. August 23rd, 1965. September 8th. Okay, so we have ages 51, 52, 53. I'm just getting that. And now I've got a phone number, 8010. Okay, did I say the age 35? Okay, I'm not sure if I, I think I said that, 35. And also 312, I feel like that is an important number, 312. And then, oh, they're just giving me June 2nd and August 10th, okay. So if those, if they resonate for you great, if not, as I said, doesn't mean the reading's not for you. Let me get a couple of charms. And then I'm gonna close out your reading, okay. Summertime is gonna be very important. Here we have the sun, it's also Leo energy. Summer love, a love fling. Summer solstice, I think we just started that on the 21st. So that's the start of all this new love energy coming in this weekend is gonna be like, really you're gonna be feeling it over this weekend. We also have a heart with a rose, beautiful. Somebody's getting a box of, okay, either a chocolate rose or is, there's like a heart, a heart shaped box of candy. I mean, who would do that? Where would you even get that? It's not even Valentine's Day or anything. Oh, okay, they just said somebody's been holding onto a box of Valentine's chocolates. I don't know what that means. Maybe you put some stuff in the box. Might not be any chocolate in it. Oh, okay, so we have a flower with a diamond in it. So this might be somebody's necklace or you're receiving like a gift, piece of jewelry. You might be receiving some kind of gift. Okay, somebody's bringing you a gift. It's either like a box, a heart shaped box of some sort. Either you have one or either you're giving it or you're receiving it. And also some type of like piece of charm or a jewel. Either getting it or you're giving it. You actually might have that on you right now. And then we've got a butterfly. And actually they just told me somebody has a butterfly sticker on their car. You might have a tattoo as well, but I think this is more specific. Somebody has a butterfly sticker. Like either on their window, their car window or on their car somewhere. Very beautiful. And also last but not least, there's a unicorn. Okay, so this is a very unique magical weekend coming here for someone. Now, maybe it's not for you. Maybe it's a message for someone you're close to. You might get here from someone you know. If you don't get a love call specifically to you over this weekend, you may hear from a friend who reaches out to you and says, guess who called me? Okay, that's like a side message for some of you. So you could be like by proxy this reading for somebody else. They just told me to say that. Okay, not that that's predictive of the whole reading, but they said somebody that's listening is going to hear about that, okay? So, Virgo, I'm gonna leave your reading here. Oh my gosh. I mean, I don't know what to say. It looks kind of good for those of you who are currently in something where you're about to walk out the door or you were just giving up and somebody's having a wake up call about that. And for others, this could be someone that you were connected to before who's, you know, like, damn, nobody wants me. Will Virgo have me back? Virgo's like, I don't think so. I just got my nails done. I just got my hair done. I'm just moving on. See ya. Keep it real later. All right, Virgo, have a great weekend. I love you guys. And then we'll see you back here Saturday morning, 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you wanna pop in the live stream and get a little mini reading from me, I'll be here for an hour or two. And then I will see you Sunday evening. So have a great weekend, you guys. Bye.