Seeing none, we will move on to the next part of our agenda which is the consider the this is item number 37 consider the report on the status of community television's plan in timeline to address the change in funding and related action included with that as a letter of the director of information services dated February 12th 2012 and a report from community television I see that our our director of information services Kevin Bowling has has assumed the position so I assume we're going to hear from him first thank you good afternoon just a couple of things before I turn it over to community TV as you know our local cable franchises have to end June 2014 we will have to move to the state franchise agreement then for charter and Comcast has a couple of big impacts to it one big impact is with community TV one what you can charge and peg fees which are for their public education and government stations that we have we have to recalculate how we're collecting those fees and I've done a rough cut and given them the community TV now that will be a net probably a net reduction of about 300,000 a year from what we're doing right now the bigger issue is what you can spend the money on there's some restrictions under federal restrictions on how the money can be spent that we have had the luxury to not have to deal with do the same far so with that community TV's got a significant issue in terms of about 85% of their current revenue is really not going to be able to be used starting June or July 2014 and what we've asked them to do is work pretty hard trying to come up with solutions for that and with that I wanted to turn over to Mary and Thayken from community TV so that she can start to give you a feel for it because I believe when the budget when they submit a budget this year they're going to have to start dealing with the loss of revenue otherwise you know 2014 that's a pretty significant cliff that you're going to hit Kevin just a quick question yes you said Sam far was the credit but wasn't a John Laird oh no John went was it John Laird never mind he probably doesn't do it what USB cord to use don't worry so with that I'll give it to Mary Ann you know hi good afternoon thank you I'm Mary Ann Thayken and I'm the executive director at community TV also today from community TV we have our chair Karen Machado and our vice chair Keith Goodger here representing I've given you packets of material that you have seen that talk about the sea changes that are necessitated by Divca but also by the technology changes in our industry there are simply changes that have to be made so on May 8th we'll be returning with a work plan and a budget that will speak to the future of CTV but now what I wanted to do is give you an opportunity to have a snapshot of where we are and where we're going CTV operates three channels one is a public access channel one is educational and one is government focused we operate 24 7 every day of the year staff members of CTV and citizen producers create programming for the station this year we have covered events as varied as what's next for Santa Cruz lectures to the Christmas parade staff created almost 350 programs while the public created over a thousand programs for distribution by our channels this makes us one of the most active stations in the country in terms of the amount of programming that comes in another major mission for CTV is training we train our members to use our tools effectively we train local nonprofits to tell their stories and increase their value in the community and we also go into schools and we train students on media literacy and 21st century job skills in our preparation for Divca we've really been at work for a couple of years in terms of thinking about what these changes are going to bring about we have been looking for ways to expand our business model to bring in money two years ago we had never had a fundraiser nor did we even think of ourselves as an organization that would need to fundraise but we that has all changed we have had two successful fundraisers and that's a part of our activity as is membership growth we have actively pursued grant money that would serve our mission like our current South County youth training program which is a $65,000 project now going on in Watsonville middle and high schools we have revamped our for hire production service and bidding on and getting production work that will make us money we have changed our standards and have been able to go out and compete with other production groups in Santa Cruz we have updated our tools and our potential with the with the launch of our HD production truck the truck has allowed us to cover things in ways that we really didn't have the potential to do before and it also has allowed us to get grants in terms of training for using the production truck we've developed partnerships with groups like the community foundation which clearly I don't know how to use their initials properly but with the community foundation to engage in four fee training programs and working with them and we have moved the board from a governance board to one that works actively in fundraising and strategy so what are we doing currently well we've made progress but clearly have a way to go as the materials that you got show we're hard at work at trying to find solutions to take us into the future we have begun with an analysis of every program and projects we have revamped our financials to allow us to understand the costs of everything that we are doing and the amount of money that we're bringing in and though that some of the information that I'll be presenting to you in May led by board vice-chair Keith Goodger we have committees covering technology fundraising training programming and marketing and they are meeting weekly as we assemble our plan for 2012 2013 we're analyzing our space needs we're garnering information from community members we're working with other pay stations to learn from their plans and to seek possible partnerships we're talked to see map about potential shared services and other kinds of things that we can do to stretch our dollars and finally we're enlarging our intern and volunteer programs to prepare us to serve the community for less while providing valuable job skills in the process challenges and opportunities well there are some incredible challenges and some amazing opportunities that are really in front of us as you've heard divs difficult difficult challenge is that funding is restricted to capital expenditures and that necessarily means for us a paradigm shift but it doesn't mean the end of community television we have the potential to grow and change the way the technology is changing as we continue to deepen our web and our smartphone accessibility we have the potential to look for new groundbreaking process projects to bring in grant money from foundations who understand that hyper local government access is the way of the future and not the past we have the potential to enlarge our pool of citizen producers by making it easier for them to upload and access content and we have the potential to heighten our relevance through more different models of programming and citizen contribution our future may be one where our capital expenditure allows us to have incredible cutting end equit cutting edge equipment that entices the best interns and volunteers in the county it we are not sure what it's going to look like we know it's going to work look differently and work differently but we do know that we are going to work hard to maintain our focus to give community our community voice to share our deepest concerns and to focus on our most important polls I welcome your questions about any of the information and any input you may have as we are putting together our plan for the coming year thank you thank you are there questions from the board I don't have a question but I just want to applaud your positive attitude it's it's it's probably not easy but it seems sincere and I I appreciate that thank you I feel that it's an incredible resource and there is a way to make it continue to be incredible make lemonade right yeah it's got a supervisor community thank you for the report I think you know community TV is an important part of our the whole county and it's because it's important I think that's part of the anxiety of the sort of drastic change over this coming down the road and our anxiety that in fact that you and your board and your members are able to to really make that transition and keep it around so that we can have that yeah some of the the when I look at your report some of the things that I saw is you identified that a third of your expenditures is going to train and support community producers correct meanwhile member dues bring in only about sixty seven hundred dollars a year and I know that the way that the governance is set up is that seven of the eleven members of your board are really chosen by those three hundred or so members of which my understanding is only about ten or fifteen percent of them actually vote in elections so I it creates a situation where your board becomes very heavy on the production side productions are wonderful you obviously are doing a lot of great productions all that sort of thing but there may be different skills that are needed to do this transition from being funded in a way that is going to be significantly different than what it is in the future when you come back on May eight I'd like you to have some discussion about governance issues absolutely about how you address that because I understand that the board has worked well at a time when there was the money in order to do those productions there may need other skills on that board and other ways to bring about that I think that you have to start creating reserves for this time when this transition goes on and I know you know the budget has been pretty much break even or even overextended a little bit so I think that you're obviously have in a sense of the direction you need to go I think you hopefully the way you present it that you're ready to move that way and your board is ready to move that way but I just want to make sure there's nothing that sort of gets in the way of of doing that because you're you're very important the community want to see you continue to go on as strong as you can thank you yes that was that is another area that we'll be looking at we will be looking at governance and all and how they the board of directors is appointed and selected so those we will be coming back to with that information okay thank you yeah supervisor stone I said all I can do is reiterate those comments very and thank you for coming caring for coming in and presenting to us it's I think it's important to keep this connection up I'm glad you're coming back on the 8th but in the 8 plus years I've been on here we haven't had too much information from community TV I think keeping us surprised in and having the venue to be able to talk about where you're going and the exciting things that are coming down this is a great place to be able to do that and you have a very interested audience here we do all understand the impact and the importance of community TV is to our community and to be able to get information out community about so many things that are important so thank you for coming in thank you look forward to watching and being a part of the evolving process I'm really looking forward to having you all be a part of the process as well it's extremely important to us as we as we go forward thanks thank you thank you I just had a couple of questions the reason I asked Kevin at the at the beginning to clarify about John Laird because I recognize that John when he was our assembly member it created a little cutout for Santa Cruz that was really critical and we've seen that a lot this year about the value of that work that he did over 500 homes will be able to access cable TV though therefore be able to see your the community TV and that's really important in the rural areas and along with internet access because we got this two-year carve out yeah we are we are ahead of our neighboring communities and the fact that we get to have two more years of operation dollars than they do and we're behind because they're obviously have to prepare for these changes now and and and don't have the luxury of having two more years and it would be helpful when you return in May to to be able to give us some reflection about what's happening around the entire Bay Area about how how people what the models they're using because that should be instructive to us we should be able to learn from the best practices of our neighboring communities or any community actually in California because the statewide law and be able to pull the best to maintain the vibrancy of community TV there has been suggested that that there be some money put aside for reserve to continue to have operation expenses have your board talked about what that percentage might be well we are going to be cutting 15% out of our budget in the coming year like the other county departments and that money will be in reserved and then we are hoping to add to that to save more money than that in terms of trying to build up that reserve for next year so we're trying to figure out a way to add to that and when you come back to us in May will you have a revised staffing plan that looks out more than just the 2012 2013 year but the 2013 14 and beyond yes what we're trying what we're putting together right now is a business plan and to put in front of you to take a look at what how we think we can best succeed as we go forward and that will mean changes necessarily that we have to do next year to prepare us for 2013 14 and then we will bring changes in over that period of time so what we're looking to do as we come into the year is be is have our decisions are going to be based on 2014 they're not going to be based on just getting us through next year well I think that'd be really helpful because I think that this law was passed in 2006 and so I appreciate the positive attitude and and and the commitment to bring you back to something that's the last couple of the next couple of months and there there's been this law was passed in 2006 so it should come as no surprise as operating I know Marianne you haven't been there all that long and so it's a responsibility of everybody involved to make sure that we have adequate plans but the speed at which this transformation has to take place will accelerate with every passing month yes and so the the responsibilities that I hear you're going to be meeting on a weekly basis with these subcommittees and I think that that's going to be critical because the the community TV is a critical resource for our community you know as someone who's lived here for over 25 years and is a meeting person and I've gone to city council meetings board meetings community meetings the luxury of being able to watch some of these meetings at home and not have to go down it is a great one and it improves our democracy that we get to see people in action rather than just having to depend on a newspaper report or radio reporter or TV that people could actually see the interplay between elected officials can hear the discussions and I think that that's that's an important value in a democracy and I think that the varied program that goes on there whether it be history projects or cultural programs or news programs or sports programs but they become part of the community fabric so I believe in community TV but I think the past history will not be the best guide to what the future will look like and that transformation will be extraordinary and will have to happen very fast because the planning hasn't gone on before this and so that will necessitate many changes some of which may be appreciated by your membership and the community and some may not right but we were talking about survival and you're not talking about just survival of your individual job or the members of the board but you're talking about the survival of this resource for the community and so that the all local jurisdictions have entrusted in you this resource and we wanted to continue to go on but we need to see this this rapid transformation so I'll be looking forward to the to the May report and I think we will all be looking critically about about what's contained therein and the budget information and what the vision of the board is for that transformation because it's it's too important to let fail. Thank you. Supervisor Leopold is an expert at fundraising because that's that was his job before he took on this job and I know that when you create that budget when you take a look at it May this opportunities for grant writing there's opportunities for fundraising there's opportunity for membership dues but all those things I think we're going to be taking a hard look at because Supervisor Leopold knows in order to accomplish those things it can't just be a number on a page you really have to set up a structure in order to make those things happen and we'll want to look and see how the board and how your organization really approaches all those different categories to make sure that those numbers are real numbers and attainable so it's it's hard but you're an important institution so we want to work with you to make all that happen. Thank you it's really appreciated. Are there members of the public who would like to say anything? No member of the public no action required on our part as far as I can tell so thank you. The recommendation of the letter is to direct them to come back I will take that as a motion Supervisor Stone seconded by Supervisor Coonerty any discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously we'll look forward to seeing you back here sometime soon and we'll move on to our next item which is item 38 which is consider approving in concept of approach.


The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 1-2-5-1-6, in the name of Adam Tomkins, on welcome to Glasgow, a world city of music. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put, can I ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request-to-speak buttons now in a call on Adam Tomkins to open the debate. Mr Tomkins, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank all members who supported my motion and who will speak in this evening's debate. The debate was secured some weeks ago, long before the fire last weekend that consumed not only the Glasgow School of Art, but also one of my favourite live music venues in Glasgow, the O2 ABC on Sockel Street. I have enjoyed that venue for years, not because of its enormous mirror ball, the biggest in Europe, apparently, but because of its size and its sound quality. With the capacity of about 1,300, the ABC is smaller than the Barrelands, but bigger than our and more and King Tuts. You could always get close to the stage, and because of the acoustics in the room, bands could turn it up and up without compromising sound quality. I've seen countless great gigs in that venue, including some of my favourite bands, the Felice Brothers, Jason Isbell, Drive By Truckers, among them. The smaller ABC2 in the same building is also a great venue, much more intimate than the main stage. I was last there to see Courtney Maria Andrews earlier this year when she played as part of the Celtic Connections Festival, so I go to a lot of gigs, Presiding Officer. I know that I'm not alone among members of this Parliament in enjoying what Glasgow's live music scene has to offer. That's what my motion tonight and this debate is all about. Glasgow has world-class venues, from the Hydro to King Tuts. Many of those venues are famous not just throughout Scotland but throughout the world. Bands love playing Glasgow because the venues are great and the people who flock to them are the best crowds in the world. Nothing beats a Friday night gig in Glasgow. Bands come to Glasgow to be discovered and they keep coming back once they've broken through. Of course, Glasgow grows its own bands and musicians. Bell and Sebastian, Teenage Fan Club, Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, Travis, many, many, many more. People make Glasgow, they say. Music makes Glasgow and Glasgow makes music every night of the week. All of that adds immeasurably to Glasgow's rich and diverse cultural life, but it also makes a vital contribution to Glasgow's economy and, indeed, to Scotland's economy more generally. Music is a driver of economic growth for Glasgow. The value to Glasgow's economy of live music attendance is in the region of £160 million a year. To put that in context, more than £3 million is spent every week in Glasgow as a direct result of the live music events that the city hosts. That sustains more than 1,100 jobs across the city and attracts nearly half a million music tourists to Glasgow every year. A recently commissioned report for Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow Life explains that much more could and should be done to build on, develop and capitalise on the strength of Glasgow's live music scene. The report, growing the value for music tourism in Glasgow, is a terrific piece of work, and I commend it to members. Today, Danny Cusack, the tourism director at Scottish Enterprise, said, and I agree with him, Glasgow has huge potential to develop its music through its rich cultural heritage, as well as its range of atmospheric venues and world-class performers. We can do that not only by increasing audience numbers, by increasing audience spend, both on and off-site, and by increasing the numbers of music tourists that stay overnight or longer when they visit Glasgow for a gig. We can do it also by being much more creative and imaginative about how we celebrate Glasgow as one of the world's leading cities of music. Ten years ago, in 2008, Glasgow became the first city in the UK to be recognised as the UNESCO World City of Music. Liverpool was awarded the same designation in 2015, but Glasgow remains the only city in Scotland to have been recognised in this way. Yet we do painfully little to broadcast this fact. I have lived in Glasgow for 15 years, and in that time I have been to dozens, if not hundreds, of gigs, yet I confess until recently I did not know that Glasgow is a UNESCO world city of music. Glasgow could be twinned with other world cities of music and, indeed, with other cities with global reputations for the contribution that they have made to live music—Nashville, Memphis or New Orleans, for example. We could learn from each of these great American cities and create within Glasgow music districts. We could signpost and map routes that tell the story of Glasgow's immense and diverse contribution to music, linking the hydro in Finiston with city centre venues such as the ABC and King Tuts and on to east-end landmarks such as the Barrelands. For relatively modest investment, ideas like those could reap significant rewards in enhancing Glasgow's visitor attractiveness. With that in mind, music is quite rightly a key pillar of Glasgow's tourism and visitor plan, which has set the ambitious target of attracting 1 million more overnight visitors to Glasgow by 2023. Meeting that target will require cross-party support and collaboration, so I was delighted to see the SNP's councillor David MacDonald, deputy leader of Glasgow City Council, welcome this evening's debate. I agree with him that for Glasgow music and tourism go hand in hand. One quick change that we here could make, which would help the live music business not only in Glasgow but across Scotland, is to incorporate the so-called agent of change principle into our planning laws. That is something that a large number of Glasgow venues expressly called for in evidence to the local government committee in its stage 1 inquiry into the planning bill that is currently before us. It is a change that is also supported by UK music and the music venue trust. In short, the agent of change principle shifts responsibility for mitigating the impact of noise from an existing music venue to a developer moving into the area. If a new venue wants to open up, the burden is rightly on them to mitigate, to minimise, and to manage the effects of noise. However, if a venue already exists and developers bring forward proposals to develop nearby, the venue should not be hit with additional costs, yet that is what is happening at the moment. It is unfair and puts live music venues at a real disadvantage. That is why I lodged yesterday an amendment to the planning bill to put the agent of change principle on a statutory footing as the Parliament's local government committee recommended unanimously last month. I hope that amendment will attract all party support as this motion and debate have done this evening. Given the devastation of the fire at the Glasgow School of Art and the O2 ABC last weekend, it is quite a week to be talking about the unrivaled contribution that music, and especially live music, makes both to Glasgow's cultural life and to its economic health and wellbeing. Music pulses through Glasgow's veins and no fire will ever stop that. However, let's capitalise on what we've got and build on Glasgow's success. It is who we are, it's what we do, because we are a world city of music. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr Tomkins. I now call Sandra White to be followed by Pauline McNeill. Ms White, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and I thank Adam Tomkins for securing this debate. As he has mentioned in his speech, it is rather poignant particularly what is happening to the Macintosh and the O2 as well. I also welcome visitors to the gallery. There is Roger, Mary, Robert, Jeanette and many others who have a great love of music in Glasgow and otherwise as well, and obviously a great interest as well. Presiding Officer, from the baror land, which I used to go to many years ago and still go sometimes, the concert hall to King Tuck, to the garage to Kelvin Grove bandstand where it was on Saturday night to see Dr Hoot, the list could go on and on and on of the many music venues across the city, and of course we can't forget the city's buskers, who are absolutely fantastic as well. Glasgow, Kelvin, my constituency alone has a massive range of word-renowned music venues, stage and electric mix of not only well-known artists and bands, but also offering opportunities for budding new musicians and songwriters to take part in a very energetic live music scene, and energetic it certainly is. In 2017, I think that Adam Tomkins has already mentioned this, three venues in Glasgow made the top 100 in the Polestar Top 100 club venues worldwide. The O2 academy, King Tuck's Wawahut and the O2 ABC. With the Hydros sitting at number four of the top 100 venues, it is an absolutely fantastic achievement for Glasgow, the people in the city as well. It is especially the point that this is the week that we are highlighting the huge contribution that live music makes to the city and our culture. We have witnessed another iconic venue devastated by fire. The O2 ABC is a hugely popular venue, and I along with many others hope that it is much love. We must remember a historical place that used to be a circus, a nice drink and a cinema. Adam Tomkins has already said that it is a fantastic live music venue. We hope that it will be salvaged and that it will continue to be an important part of the city's music scene. I welcome the report. Adam Tomkins has also mentioned this from the Scottish Enterprise in collaboration with Glasgow Life. I thank those involved in gathering the information. It is very important. It outlines further opportunities for the ready, well-established music industry that we have here in Glasgow and the huge potential to build on a successful music tourism industry, particularly if we make greater use of our UNESCO World City of Music. I agree that we should be publicising that more so that perhaps Visit Scotland and others could listen to the debate and hopefully take something from it as well. It is not only the terms of the culture effect that it has for our city and Scotland as a whole. It is also the economic effect for the city. Our night-time economy is hugely important to our city as well. The agent of change has been mentioned. Recommendations for the introduction of agent of change would certainly safeguard the future of our venues and a thriving music scene. I know that the Minister of Local Government, Adam Tomkins, has already said, along with many others and I think that Lewis Macdonald will mention that too. I think that I first mentioned it along with Lewis Macdonald quite a while back, so I am sure that Lewis Macdonald will put in more to that as well. That has been mentioned in many, many times. It is essential, particularly for smaller venues such as King Tuts, who have been under threat from developers and neighbours for a number of years and I have met up with them, Geoff Ellis and others, to talk about the agent of change and others as well. The agent of change, if it is realised and put in place, would make a great difference to the smaller venues. We cannot stand by and watch the foundations of Glasgow's successful music landscape. I am not saying that it would be destroyed, but it is a threat if the agent of change is not particularly looked at, particularly if it is to make way for luxury developments in the city. We will lose things such as King Tuts and other small, important venues. Live music has and will always be a cornerstone of life across Glasgow, and it is essential that the agent of change principle is adopted into Scottish planning policy to protect those venues. They are both cultural landmarks and tourist attractions, as well as being home to fantastic live music. It goes without saying that it is the best audience in the world—that is from Glasgow. I call Pauline McNeill to be followed by Tom Arthur. I would also like to thank Adam Tomkins for bringing in an excellent debate to the chamber. I am sure that there could be no doubt that Glasgow is the European capital of music. I believe that it is because the passion of the people who come to Glasgow and the people who live in Glasgow have for music is what makes it what it is. Music matters to Glaswegians. Music matters to people across Scotland as we sell more live tickets than any other part of the UK. Of all genres—and I think that it is important to say whether it is traditional music, classical music, rock and pop—is the combination of all of those not to exclude the DJs, who are an important creative part of the music scene. King Tuts has been mentioned many times, probably the finest small venue in the world. I will not rehearse what has already been said about the marvellous O2 venue. We will have to wish that that will return to its glory. The garage, the concert hall, the clysa, black friars, the Kelvin Grove bandstand, orn more—it could go on. They happen to all the venues, but I have experience of playing in myself who I can speak to, how wonderful they are from the largest to the smallest. The number of bands, concerts and music performances at any given time or moment in Glasgow is quite astonishing. It is thriving with creativity, and I think that it speaks to the character of the city of Glasgow. Berkeley 2, which is a well-known rehearsal space for bands, if you have ever visited it, you will see a constant flow of young bands, and it would not be unusual to bump into Susan Deakin or members of Deakin Blue, and it just shows you the metropolitan nature of Glasgow's music scene. However, as we have heard, half a million people gig in Glasgow and citizens enjoy their music. The new transmit festival, which will be two weekends this summer, is a new addition to the scene. The hydro, named as the third most popular venue in the world by Paul Start, beating Madison Square Gardens, further increases our status as the city of music. As a Glasgow citizen, it is great that you can attend a concert, go and see beyond, see whoever your favourite artist is, and be home in half an hour for tea and toast or whatever it is you do. However, the report itself highlights that there are forty-three live music venues and thirty-five music bars, and that music is one of the six core themes along with heritage contemporary arts. Perhaps what the report does our attention to is where we have maybe failed to capitalise on the question of music in the city. The UNESCO status has a badge, and the report itself says that it is poorly used and largely recognised. However, those assets, as Adam Tomkins and Sandra White have said, are under threat for key venues, which are key to the status that Glasgow has as a city of UNESCO city of music. The Barrolans ballroom, King Tuck's Wabahup, the sub-club and the classic grand are all under threat if we do not get some protection in the forthcoming planning bill. I know that Lewis Macdonald will talk about that in greater length than me, but King Tuck's this year alone has been fighting two different applications, and what they fear is enforcement action being taken against the venue, because a new development, which has admitted against the noise issues, will face complaints and possibly legal action after the building is developed. As is clear to me, if we want to protect that asset, then there has to be statutory legislation, and if I thought that that is what the Scottish Government had promised, the Barrolans ballroom in Glasgow faces the same issues. There are now severe restrictions for bands loading and unloading, or constant complaints from the new build houses across the road. That was never meant to be the case if we want to protect music venues in Glasgow. We really need to give them statutory protection. It will not be enough to introduce the agent of change as a guidance. It must be law, and if Adam Tomkins has submitted already an amendment that is subject to seeing the detail of it, I will be supporting that, and I hope that other Glasgow MSPs will do too. What to do with the report? Doug O'Pairman, who is the chair of the Scottish Music Indies Association and compiled the inner year report, clearly says that there are so many things that we would have to do to bring some of those recommendations together. The Scottish Music Industrial Organization is something that I helped to set up along with Ken Macintosh MSP, Frank Macavity, Ian Smith of the former arts council on Tam Coil, and I'm pleased to be associated with it. The music history of the city is not evident on the ground, and we have to bring that together. Twinning cities, with Glasgow such as Detroit, Rio, Paris and New York, is an important recommendation. In fact, it was the manager of Radiohead that said, first made the case for a Scottish base in New York, because he said that it would be much easier to make contact with record companies if such a basic system exists. In conclusion, Glasgow is certainly the world city of music. It should be known as such. It is a title that is deserved. It fits with Glasgow's commitment to music, and I commit to working with other MSPs, Adam Tomkins and others, to ensure that the world knows that that is the case. I thank Adam Tomkins for bringing us this issue to the chamber, and as well as reminding the chamber about the arm of the PLO to the cabinet secretary, I should also declare that I am a member of the musicians union. I have played in many of the venues that we have spoken about this evening, alas not the hydro, but I think that there are two aspects that I want to capture, and just the actual kind of value for what it is to have a city like Glasgow in a life, and the fantastic array of live music that it has. I also want to touch on what it is for the musician to have somewhere like Glasgow, which I think is very important as well. For me, Glasgow is hardwired into my whole musical development and experience. I remember going to my first gig to see Death Leopard at the ASDCC. It was 19 years ago now. I went on to see Megadeth at the Carling academy, a beggar pardon at the Barrowlands, Sigurd Rost at the Carling academy, Queen Adam Lambert at the Hydro, and that is just an array of the very many fantastic huge venues that we have and many that we have touched on. A particular venue means a lot to me as well as ABC, and it is a poignant element to this debate given the events. A particularly pleasurable woman from ABC was of all things a political party event. The SNP had a concert there just ahead of the election in 2011, which was a fantastic evening. A great experience, live music and lots of promising talent performing on stage that evening. One of the great things about Glasgow is that it is not just all these big headline venues that we know about. It is places like the state bar, howling wolf, where you will have one of the best blues jams in Glasgow, box, nice and sleazy. So much of the talent that we have in Glasgow and M&H relies on these grassroots venues that they guard upon, that they rely on the opportunities provided by those venues. Certainly for me, as someone who has been trying to make my way music and function bands and many of my colleagues, having that opportunity was invaluable. It was tough. It was difficult. Sometimes it was a question of rushing to let what kind of sound engineer you were going to have that night, and probably you were going to hear yourself on stage. Nonetheless, you had an opportunity to connect with people, to connect with punters, to build an audience. I know folk that have gone on to build successful careers. One colleague of mine from years back when I was playing a guy called Gary Johnston, he is probably not a household name, but one of the most successful guitarists and singer-songwriters in Glasgow who has been producing for a long time. He regularly, when he gets a chance off from playing many functions and events, will go to places like Chicago, New York and Nashville and go up on stage and jam with the best. When I speak with Gary, I will give him the opportunity to see the comments that he makes about just how much he values Glasgow, someone who has experienced playing in all those venues. It is clear that Glasgow is a world music city, and it is not just for audience, for spectators and for the people who consume music, but for the people who produce music. We can look at the United States, how effective it has been at advertising Chicago, Nashville and New York in particular. We know of venues that have iconic status, Madison Square Gardens and Village Vanguard. We have to be working more to make sure that those venues in Scotland have that same international status, because in terms of facilities, capacity and talent and the artists that we can attract, they are world-class venues. We must celebrate that. I very much welcome the comments from Adam Tompkins regarding looking at ways in which we can line up. Finlayson has in many regards been transformed since the advent of the Hydro, a fantastic venue, and we have seen the benefits that it has. What we have to be making sure is that when people come to the Hydro to enjoy those events, we are not just jumping on the way to training going home or popping in for a Python Finlayson, but heading in and exploding all-weeds other venues in Glasgow and having the opportunity to engage in that rich musical culture and heritage. I would again like to thank Adam Tompkins for bringing the debate to the chamber, and I look forward to seeing Glasgow continue to be a thriving and diverse world music city. I call Brian Whittle before we fall by Lewis MacDonald. Lewis MacDonald will be the last speaker in the open debate. Mr Whittle, please. I congratulate my colleague and fellow rocker, Adam Tompkins, on securing time in the chamber to debate, which, as you know, is my first love of music. I associate myself with Mr Tompkins and other comments regarding the fire at the Glasgow School of Art and the O2ABC music venue next door. I know the keenest loss that we felt in that community, and we all recognise the cultural loss of both venues. I think that the loss will be felt, much more felt, further afield, and hopefully there will be a way to be found to restore those iconic buildings now, Deputy Presiding Officer. As I have mentioned, music is my first love. Indeed, my promising career as a rock guitarist was only tragically cut short when I discovered that I had a severe lack of talent. I have had to make do with attending gigs, which I do quite regularly. Glasgow has long been a preferred music destination. Surely everyone in the chamber has a copy of that iconic album, If You Want Blood, by that little low band from Glasgow ACDC. The album was recorded at the Gold Glasgow Apollo when the band appeared on stage wearing the 1978 World Cup Scotland kit. Who does not own an album called Coal Live? It is also recorded in the Glasgow Apollo. I know that it is Mr Tompkins' music of choice as he bounces along on his runs. I suggest to him that he should be careful what he divulges in casual conversations. A band used to say that, if you can make it in Glasgow, you can make it anywhere, because if they love you, they really love you, but if they do not, keep them out of running. As I said, they are a very passionate crew. Since those days, Glasgow has grown into one of the world's premier music destinations. In fact, it is the fourth-biggest in the world by attendance. I attended a couple of concerts this year at the SAC Hydro. I have a couple more to go, both at the Hydro and at the Barlands. I would say that it is just one of those bands that I am going to see is Death Leopard. If you have time to grow your hair, Mr Arthur, you have time to grow your hair and join me at the Death Leopard concert. I am also going to the Barlands actually to see the first band that I ever saw live in 1980, a band called Saxon. Obviously, if they are still able to make it on to the stage. To balance that coolness out, I also have three daughters, which has necessitated me going along to see steps twice. I just say tragedy. The Pavilion is another gig venue that I am really attached to. I organised a gig there for three bands, one called Fat Betty, who was a thin Lizzie tribute band, absolutely fantastic band. I also backed up by Gary Mullen, who, once stars in your eyes, is Freddie Mercury, and the headliner, Pete Lof. 1,500 people enjoyed that. I wonder if the member would acknowledge that Gary Mullen is actually from Barhead in my Renfisher South constituency, showing yet again the level of musical talent that emerges from Barhead. Brian Whittle Despite the fact that he came from Barhead, I do not know if you have ever met Gary Mullen.  He is unbelievable. Glasgow has an incredible global reputation for music culture. It is a destination for bands setting out on their musical journey right through to global bands and stars. I have to say that, in Glasgow, I saw Bon Jovi's first-ever gig in 1983 as a support band in the Glasgow Apollo when they supported Kiss in 1983. I said that there is always a venue, there is always an audience, no matter where they are in their musical journey. It is a business that enriches the cultural reputation of the city of Glasgow and of Scotland. The value of music tourism has been estimated at £160 million, sustaining more than 1,000 jobs, and long may it continue. I once again thank my colleague Arab Tongans for bringing this debate to the chamber. I look forward to many more music bands and venues in Glasgow, as long as the bands that I follow can still remain in an upright position. I do not know if Caldwell is MacDonald. I know that this is another confessional of youth, but there we go. Mr MacDonald? No, I will resist that invitation, but thank you very much. I too would congratulate Adam Tomkins on securing this debate at what is a critical time for music venues in Glasgow and across the country. The headline story, as we have heard, is the devastation of the O2 ABC in the same conflagration last weekend that hit the School of Art. The bigger picture is the loss of venue after venue in our cities and across the country as a result of inadequate legal protection against the effects of inappropriate development. Every live music venue knows that, as things stand, it is only one persistent complainer away from being forced to close or to spend prohibitive amounts of money on sound proof technology. Studio 24 in Edinburgh downstairs in Aberdeen have already gone, and now King Tuts in Glasgow, as Pauline McNeill said, is under threat. I was at King Tuts last week, not on that occasion at a gig, but actually at the first meeting of the Scottish Venues Trust—sorry, the Scottish Venues meeting the first time that has been organised by the Music Venues Trust. I met representatives of venues all over Scotland, Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh, Krakatoa and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen and the operators of King Tuts. Our conversations were about the threats that they face and the opportunity that we have to change the law in their favour. One of the most immediate threats, as I say, is to King Tuts itself, because Glasgow City Council has just granted planning permission for our private residence to be built next door. The terms of that approval—a public document—are disappointing, and they appear to confirm the fear that the Scottish Government's acceptance of the principle of agent of change does not, of itself, go far enough. According to the letter issued to planning authorities in February by the chief planner on behalf of the Scottish Government, where a new residential property is to be developed within the vicinity of an existing music venue, the responsibility for mitigating adverse effects should sit with the housing developer as the agent of change, pretty clear. However, Glasgow City Council's approval of the housing development application in May says, by contrast, that it should be noted that the nearby licensed concert venue has a duty and obligation to control and manage noise within the premises and any noise escape and ensure that their premises are suitably sound attenuated. In other words, for this planning authority, the chief planner's letter, which introduced the principle of agent of change to planning practice in Scotland for the first time, has not been applied. That letter directed planning authorities to ensure that issues around the potential impact from live music venues are always appropriately assessed and addressed when considering proposals, either by venues themselves or for development in their vicinity, and that decisions reflect the agent of change principle. Well, clearly that has not happened in this case. Of course, Glasgow City Council will not be the only authority that has yet to change its approach to such issues in line with the new ministerial guidance. The problem is that, although that new guidance is welcome, it is only guidance. Until the agent of change principle is enshrined in law, venues such as King Tuts in Glasgow and others across the country will remain under threat. That is why I think the local government and communities committee recognised in its stage 1 report in the planning bill that a principle that is not enshrined in statute will always be open to interpretation and to challenge in circumstances in which councils have traditionally been used to giving developers the benefit of the doubt. If we are to secure the objectives that are shared by ministers and by the local government committee, and I suspect by the great majority of members of this Parliament and, of course, by the music industry and music venues, we need to go beyond guidance and enshrine the principle of agent of change in planning law. That way, we can really protect all of our live music venues, both in Glasgow and across Scotland. Thank you very much and I call on Fiona Hyslop to close to the cabinet secretary please. Thank you to Adam Tomkins for the opportunity to have this important debate. Perhaps it is even more important now in light of that terrible and devastating fire at the Glasgow School of Art, which also spread to the adjacent O2ABC building, one of the city's major live music venues, as we have heard in this debate. While investigations will now take place to establish what happened and what can be done, it is also important that we do not lose sight of the many great things that are currently happening in Glasgow, particularly around music. Glasgow is recognised internationally for its vibrant and thriving music scene, which attracts music lovers from all over the world. As we have heard and as the report clearly sets out, that translates into an important economic contribution and more than 1,000 full-time jobs. However, the value of music to Glasgow is far from limited to economic benefits. Music in particular live music enriches people's lives and enhances our society. It makes a huge contribution to our culture and also how others see us. It demonstrates what a vibrant, lively and exciting place Glasgow but also Scotland is. Music is in the very fabric of the city, which is why it has been named a UNESCO city of music. It is a great recognition that, as a number of speakers have said, deserves to be brought to the fore. Last year, when I met Councillor David Macdonald, I then knew the appointed chair of Glasgow Life. He shared his plans to make more of that UNESCO designation. In March this year, I met the Deputy Director General of UNESCO in Paris. I expressed our strong support for UNESCO's work and our commitment to promote and harness the value that its recognition brings. He was also very pleased in March that I told him of the Glasgow City Council's undertakings to make more of the UNESCO city of music recognition. Glasgow has a great opportunity to put its name on the music map that it already does through the recognition and the networks that it brings. Working in partnership, we need to do everything that we can to ensure that that opportunity is lost. Tom Arthur and his remarks have effectively made the important point about the grassroots venues and being a pipeline of music opportunity and talent. I have already been tasked by officials last year to look at what can be done in terms of support. It has already been discussed with other jurisdictions, Wales and others at the British Irish Council, including the discussions around agents of change. Festivals are a key part of the music experience in Glasgow. The world's largest winter festival, Celtic Connections, is a great showcase of Scottish traditional music. Earlier this year, I decided to open up the festival's expo fund to include Celtic Connections for the first time, enabling them to apply for funding of up to £100,000 in the £18-19 budget. Set up in 2008, the festival's expo fund also supports artists from Celtic Connections to make their most of their career opportunities internationally. Of course, no-one has mentioned that this summer we will also see again the world pipe band championships, which again has a fantastic opportunity to bring people from music to the city. Four of our five national performing companies are based in Glasgow, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera. Now, in the 12th year of direct government support, they are making significant contribution to Glasgow and across all of Scotland. In terms of the major infrastructure investments that the Government has provided, capital support of £5.4 million to develop the Glasgow Theatre Royal for Scottish Opera and £8.5 million to support the creation of a new home for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as part of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. That new national orchestra centre not only provides the orchestra with state-of-the-art operational base but also provides Glasgow with a purpose-built music venue in addition. The dedicated learning and engagement centre supports music making and creativity for young people and communities across Scotland. Of course, much of this debate has been about contemporary music or, in Brian Whittle's point, contemporary music that was once contemporary but is now part of the history of many. The National Museum of Scotland will this week open a major exhibition over the summer dedicated to Scottish pop music. Rip it up, exploring the musical culture of Scotland over more than half a century, featuring artists and bands from Orange Juice to Franz Ferdinand. Live music venues are an important part of why people come to Glasgow for music, and I was saddened to hear about the fire this weekend at the O2 ABC. We have a number of much-loved venues that have provided both a stage for emerging new talent and some of the biggest names in the music industry. We have venues that include the Barlands, I think that I saw the alarm there once, and the King Tuts, the sub-club that played such a pivotal role not only in the careers of Scottish but also international acts. That is a very important point that Pauline McNeill made about the relevance now to the international aspects. Their character and uniqueness are a key part of that live music experience. I was also pleased to see that the SEC Hydro was the fourth busiest arena in the world in 2017 in terms of ticketed sales, according to Polestar, behind only the O2 in London, Madison Square Garden and Manchester Arena. That quick and rapid assent to that top world-class experience is something that we should be very conscious of. Whether it is long-established or new and emerging, we need to protect the culturally and socially significant space that music venues provide. I want to play tribute, particularly to Lewis MacDonald, because he has pursued this issue for some time. I also want to say to those who are on the local government committee where Bob Dorris, who is a convener, made sure that there was extended evidence on this particular subject as part of the planning bill consideration. That is precisely why the minister for local government and housing announced earlier this year our intention to introduce the agent of change principle into the next planning framework. At the same time, as we have heard, the chief planner wrote to all planning authorities, highlighting the Scottish Government's support for agent of change, specifically asking them to ensure that issues around the potential impact of noise from live music venues are always appropriately assessed and addressed. In giving evidence to the local government and communities committee on the planning bill, the music venue trust noted that Scotland is already leading the way in the UK with the strength of our message on agent of change. We have viewed the inclusion of the agent of change principle in the national planning framework as the appropriate approach, and the planning bill seeks to strengthen the status of the framework. Nevertheless, I understand that the minister for local government and housing is considering the views of the committee as to whether it might be appropriate to bring forward an amendment to the bill, and I undertake, if at least what Donald has not already done so, to draw the attention of the chief planner and the minister to the May case that he was referring to in Glasgow in the generality of the policy issue. This year, of course, is a particularly exciting year for Glasgow, running alongside the biggest sporting event in Scotland since the Commonwealth Games. We have the 2018 European Championships. The cultural programme festival 28 will deliver the best in music and other art forms, and through a groundbreaking cultural partnership between Glasgow and Berlin, a scaled-up merchant city festival will deliver the best in Scottish and international arts and entertainment. Music will be the heart of the festival, with a range of concerts and activities, including Mix the City, a digital online music platform that creates musical soundscapes of Glasgow and Berlin. That has been a very important, constructive and engaging debate. It puts the importance of music rightly at front and centre. I am very supportive of many of the comments that I have made that members might appreciate, and I will use my efforts to ensure that we continue to have a great grassroots pipeline of music in Scotland, but also some of the practical issues that are facing the venues, whether it is immediate or, indeed, strategically, can be addressed. We have great ambition in Scotland, but we also have great talent. There is something about the audiences in Glasgow that many have referred to that is very special indeed. I particularly like Adam Tomkin's comments that, yes, music makes Glasgow, but Glasgow makes music, and it does not do that particularly well. Thank you. That concludes the debate, and I have learned much more about Mr Tomkins than perhaps I ought to know. I close this meeting of Parliament.


2 Corinthians 13 through 15 says, For such men are false prophets, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising then, if the servants masquerade as servants of righteousness, their end will be what their actions deserve. If you were on this channel, then you probably understand that right now, we are in the most intense spiritual battle humanity has ever faced. And if you are on this channel, you also probably know that there is a lot of deceit and there are forces working that our human eyes sometimes can't see. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. As always, a very, very special thank you to all of our patrons and our producers here on Esoteric Atlanta. Without you guys, we would not be able to do what we do. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce. And today on Mystery Monday, we are going to be talking about the grand grimoire. I debated on whether or not to continue to do these missing, dark, dangerous books on the playlist of Mystery Monday or to create a whole new playlist for all of these books we're going to go through. However, I decided to keep them on the Mystery Monday playlist because magic for a lot of us is still very much a mystery. In fact, in ancient religions, there were such things as Mystery Schools where people would learn the powers of the universe. A lot of us have a misunderstanding of what these Mystery Schools were. And I do want to remind you guys, as I often do on every episode, that everything that the darkness uses was a one-point created by the light. Even in basic science, even in high school biology, we learn the power of photosynthesis because, you see, the darkness literally can't create anything. It can only take and steal from the light. In all of the Apocryphon books that were banned from the Bible, we see this explained. Again, Apocryphon means a secret teaching. And in these books, it's clear that the reason why Lucifer has to ask for the rituals and ceremonies that he does involving humans and animals is because he has to continue to feed off of that divine spark, the divine spark that is within all of us, because that is the one thing that Lucifer cannot create. And because Lucifer cannot create his own divine spark, he's constantly having to be refed. And for those who are willing to participate in these kinds of rituals, they have to continually provide this nourishment for their master. Of course, Lucifer gives them things in return for feeding him, but it always comes at a price. As most of you know, I, for one, have been at the receiving end of black magic. And this is definitely not something to take lightly. I haven't even mentioned half of the things that I've been through regarding this type of spell work. And one day when all of this is over, I do intend to talk about everything when I'm ready to talk about everything. And no, I will not be mentioning any names on my channel for many reasons. First of all, my safety is at stake. And hopefully one day when I'm able to talk about literally everything that's happened to me, you guys will understand why my safety is at stake.  So for now, I and many others who are also targets of these covens have to play it very smart. I also don't believe that you need me to tell you who these people are because you, like me, have a divine connection to source. You have your gut instinct. And as long as you're listening to your gut, you will be fine. Ask God to show you who these people are. Ask God to point them out to you and he will. I only bring up this information because knowledge is power. For a long time, I think a lot of us were very ignorant to just how dark evil is. And I do believe that my friend Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa is correct. The more we raise our vibration, the harder it is for these people to attack. They will still attack. However, we just keep rising up. Now, last week on Twitter, I posted a really, really good in-depth video created by JCK down in Australia. Another spiritual truth there in our community. I'm going to link that video down below in this description box as well. I highly suggest that everybody listen to it. She does a really, really good job describing everything that is happening within these covens. As she says, 90% of our media is infiltrated, our mainstream media. What makes us think that the same thing isn't happening in the Truth Earth community as well?  Our Earth has to ascend. It has to go from third density to fourth density. It's time. The only thing is when it goes from a third density to fourth density, it will either go fourth density positive or fourth density negative. In third density, we have the power of polarity. There's always darkness and light. This is a ground, a school for the beings on these planets to decide which path they're going to take, which level they're going to graduate to. Are they going to go into the positive or into the negative? This, of course, takes many, many, many lives of learning and deciding. And the soul, from what I understand from the Law of One, does have to be a particular age to even be eligible to graduate into fourth density. This is where we are right now in our timeline. This is the predicament that we are in with Mother Nature. Now, yes, it's true. If you are a student of the Law of One, most of us, a lot of us, came back down into third density bodies from fourth, fifth or sixth density existence. We've already ascended. And the reason why we decided to come back down through the veil of amnesia to a lower density body is to help humanity push the earth into the positive polarity. However, just as the light sent down people to help push the earth into the positive polarity, the darkness also sit down souls to help push the planet into the negative polarity. Now, according to a lot of the prophecies, according to the Law of One, even the Cassiopean say that the probability of us going positive is really high, almost impossible for the darkness to hijack. However, they will start to try to hijack. And if we rest on our laurels, then there is that slight chance and possibility they could swing at negative. And that is why it is the responsibility for every single one of us to do our due diligence, to work on ourselves, to heal ourselves, to love each other, to stand up for what is right. This is not the time for us to sit back any popcorn. That's what the darkness wants you to do so that you stop fighting. Now, I believe that it is not totally necessary for us to have a really in-depth understanding of black magic.  And by understanding that it is real, we have a better chance of putting up boundaries and protecting ourselves and raising our vibration so we're not affected by it. So they're basically swinging at dead air. And this has been true in spiritual warfare since the beginning. Many, many people who have been in this spiritual battle have studied demonology in order to understand how the other side works. Demonology is the study of demons, the hierarchy of demons. Angelology is the study of angels. And as you'll see, they mirror each other. Where there is a Michael, there is one demon. Where there is a Gabriel, there is another demon to match that Gabriel. Demonology is an occult science. And again, all the word occult means is also just hidden knowledge. It's the understanding of complex rituals to summon demons. It's the understanding of knowing what these demons' symbols and signs are. It's also the understanding of how these black witches and warlocks use the summoned demons to do their bidding. Just like in the opening video, where many people believe he who shall not be named because it's YouTube was actually commanding a demon. Just like we know King Solomon did. Just like we're assuming King David did. The darkness will lie to you. The darkness will love bomb you and charm you to your face. Put you in a place of confusion. And as we're starting to see, even these biblical characters like Solomon that we were taught to venerate and respect were part of the dark cult. They were part of Satanism. And so demonology itself is at the heart of spiritual warfare. For the dark side, it's a way to control. And for the light side, it's a way to understand the enemy. Of course, we understand especially if you're on this channel that there are many missing books from the Bible. From our understanding, allegedly, there were supposed to be 777 books in the biblical canon. We only have 66 books. And of those 66 books, we know that most of them have been changed and manipulated over time. One of these missing books is called the Testament of Solomon. Now, the last couple of weeks we have been diving into King Solomon and his two other grimoires, his spell books, the keys of Solomon and the lesser key of Solomon. If you missed those two episodes, I will place them down in the description box below. Now, because the dark controllers also control the Vatican and also control all the sects of Christianity, not to mention all the other religions, it is no wonder to me that the Testament of Solomon was removed from the Bible. They wanted our energy, our respect to venerate these sorcerers because it was known and is still known by the Freemasons that Solomon was one of the greatest sorcerers to ever live. And this is clear in the Testament of Solomon. In the Testament of Solomon, he describes how he summoned demons to build the temple. Again, the temple where the Ark of the Covenant was held, the temple where they participated in sacrifices and the temple that looks identical to the Freemason Lodges today. The Testament of Solomon also allegedly tells you how to summon demons just like in the lesser key of Solomon, the keys of Solomon. And as we're going to discuss in a minute, we're going to discuss the Grand Quinoa, the Mac Daddy of all of Solomon's spell books. It is also alleged that in the Testament of Solomon, Solomon makes it very clear that his God, the God that he worships is Moach. Of course, Moach is the same God today that a lot of our leaders worship, as mentioned in some emails that were released a while ago. Now, last week we talked about the term Solomic magic. Solomic magic named after King Solomon is specifically assigned to the magic of summoning demons. So someone who is a light worker who does rituals to protect themselves and protect their loved ones is not practicing Solomic magic. This is again specifically for people who are summoning demons. Solomic magic is also considered high magic. So not something that little pipsqueaks who've just joined the dark arts are doing, but the more advanced people, maybe the people who run the covenants. This type of Solomic magic includes really two things, an invocation, a calling of the demon and a conjuring, which for lack of a better term is you making a pact with a demon. Now, something that I found particularly interesting in my research into the grand grimoire is that many demonologists do understand that demons are way more complex than angels. If you follow along in the biblical story, we know that the Bible teaches that demons are actually fallen angels. And this makes sense to me because as I've said over and over again, the darkness can't create anything, only the light can. So even these demons were created by God as angels, but they took the opportunity to use their God given free will as we all have to challenge God. And therefore they fell into the spectrum of darkness, which is needed for the polarity of a third density planet. These demons because they are not mortal like humans have all of the same abilities that angels have. This is because they were at one point angels and because they were at one point angels, they themselves also had a direct relationship with God. Now, just like human beings that participate in the dark arts or black magic demons will also mess with your head because as I've said multiple times, one of the number one rules of the universe is consent and free will. We all have free will, but free will isn't free will if we're not consenting. And we know that the darkness will oftentimes gas like trick and control to try to give us an illusion of something being imaginary. So therefore we consent to something without totally understanding what we have consent to. You know, people often think and I myself have definitely seen demons before. I mean, I've been attacked physically attacked by them. And when I see them, I see them in their actual physical form, the darkness, the grossness, the red eyes. But I think that's because I know who they are and they know I know who they are. But a lot for a lot of people and especially for people who don't understand the power of black magic, demons and people who succumb to demons through their witchery will be very alluring. They will say the right things. They will charm you. They will love bomb you. They will do things like control your YouTube channel, making your numbers appear different than they are so that you feel like you need them. This is tricking you into giving your consent. As JCK said so eloquently in her video, a lot of really good people, really good truthers who just opened up a channel because they wanted to do the right thing. They wanted to share knowledge, have now fallen victim to infiltrators who work for the controllers in these covens and are put on platforms to sway our ascension. They fall for it. They have these people come on their channels and before they know it, these people have taken over their channels and are now technically their handlers. The audience also becomes spellbound and hypnotized by these people, claiming that these people are amazing and they're idolizing and hero worshiping when that should never happen anyway. And that is when it's up to the individual person to do his or her own work to use discernment, to understand where perhaps they're being tricked. And a lot of us can understand that because for many, many years, a lot of us were victims to the trickery of the mainstream media, to our educational system, to medicine. And so we have to understand that the same tactics are also being used in this war as well. Both angels and demons are shapeshifters. They know how to change their form in order to do whatever it is that they need to do. But one thing I want to be very clear about as well so that people are not living in the low vibration of fear is that demons don't just gallivant around the world looking to mess with people like the church wants you to believe. Of course, the church wants you to believe that because most churches are in cahoots with Satanism. But you see demons are a little bit too cocky for that. Demons have to be summoned. They have to be summoned by a dark witch or warlock. There has to be a pact made with that dark witch or warlock. And then there has to be an intention set, a tagging set on the victim that they're going after. As JCK said in her video, a lot of these infiltrators, these dark witches will go on their channel and they will target people by talking about them on their channel, love bombing them, really pointing that channel out. And the next thing you know, you've got some stuff happening in your life that you didn't ask for. You've been tagged. Now, most people watching right now, if you don't have a public platform, you're probably pretty safe from this. And we have to understand that ultimately our free will and our choice is what's in control. And this is why, even though I know for myself in particular, I've had at least three death spells put on me. Nothing has happened to me because I am aligned with source. I am protected. I'm heavily protected. And so just because someone's doing black magic on you, potentially doesn't mean that it's always lost. We just have to be aware. Now these people who are doing these black magic spells, sending demons after particular people have to continue to do the spell work if they want to continue to have that person attacked for whatever reason. Usually in my case specifically, the reason why I have been targeted is because of something in my needle chart, something that I lived through in a past life and it also has to do with my star chart as well. So there is something about me. I do know what that is that they want, that they want to actually take off of the earth. And so therefore in saying that, I hope that I'm making some people rest at ease. They're not just doing it for shits and giggles. There's a particular reason. And so if you're not being attacked right now with this type of black magic then chances are you probably won't be. So just relax. Don't worry and use your discernment. So just like arch angels, there are also arch demons. As I said where there's a Michael, there's a counterpart where there's a Gabriel. There's a counterpart. The arch demons are of course the most powerful demons and each arch demon commands his own legion of demons. As we talked about last week, especially on the dark outpost King Baal, Baal the demon is also known as Yahweh. But then according to other studies, we have the seven princes of hell. This is Lucifer who is also associated with pride, Mammon who is associated with greed, Osmodeus who is associated with lust, Levathan who is associated with envy, Beelzebub who is associated with gluttony, Satan who is associated with wrath, and Belfagor who is associated with sloth. Now for those who grew up in a Christian home, you also probably recognize those seven as the seven deadly sins. But I'm not gonna get too much into that because I have a very different definition of sin than what the Christian church teaches us. For me, sin means to just miss the mark to not understand who you truly are. And it is true that in some cultures, demons are also considered demonstrators. They're teachers. If you know how to work that properly, you can actually learn by conquering your own inner demons. But for the case of this study in the spiritual warfare where I now, we are referring to demons as literal dark entities who are fighting for the negative polarity. Now something interesting about Levathan, the demon of envy, is that he is known as a sea serpent. And if you were with us for the Necronomicon, you know that the Chitulla, the deity of the Necronomicon, which is also considered the world's most dangerous book, is a sea serpent. So is the Chitulla and Levathan the same? Possibly. We know that in some of the missing books of the Bible, Lucifer has a different name. For example, in the Apocryphon of John, Lucifer is called Yelda Beth. In the Lesser Key of Solomon that we covered last week, they talk about the deities, the gods, the demon gods that rule the four corners of the earth. For example, the God of the North is Zeminar. The God of the West is Corson. The God of the South is Gap. And the God of the East is Amian. Now, the Grand Grimoire, the Mac Daddy of all of King Solomon's spell books is also referred to as the Red Dragon. This is because this particular Grand Grimoire works with summoning Lucifer himself. The story goes that the Grand Grimoire was actually found in King Solomon's tomb in the year 1750. Now, as always, take this with a grain of salt. If you guys know, I am heavily invested in studying tartaria right now and Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa and I are going to be doing a whole series on tartaria. So I definitely don't take dates that seriously and I'm not taking artifacts that seriously either because we know that the demographics of where these events actually happened are probably not where they tell us they happened. And so, as I'm giving you the information about how it was found, just please take it with a grain of salt and know that this information could change. However, again, yes, the story goes that it was actually found in the tomb of King Solomon. This book, the original copy found in this tomb allegedly is now being held at the Vatican Library. Surprise, surprise, that I do believe. However, you can find copies of this spell book online. Now, this spell book allegedly goes into this idea that God, Source God, Creator God is not the God of this planet. Lucifer is the God of this planet. This I actually agree with. We know the Bible even says this. If you're following the biblical text, you know that God agreed to allow Lucifer to rule over this prison planet for a particular amount of time. This is what gave human beings, us souls, trapped on this gangster prison planet the opportunity to have the resistance and the friction from morality of right and wrong to understand what path we wanted to choose to graduate to. Hence why we are literally at the final exam right now. Now, the God that I worship, the Source, the Creator God does not ask anything of his children. He doesn't demand atonement. He doesn't demand that you give up something in order to worship him. There is no condition to Source Creator God's love. Source Creator God gave you your divine spark.   However, when we have Lucifer here on this earth, Lucifer will be tempting you with money with a lot of girls or boys, boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever power. You name it, the earthly possessions, not the heavenly possessions of knowing unconditional love but the earthly possessions of all the seven deadly sins, greed, everything. And so we know that a lot of our controllers in this world have succumbed to worshiping Lucifer because they're able to harness more power to do what they want by striking packs or deals with Lucifer. And again, they've gotten away with this for such a long time because that was the deal that God, Creator God, made with Lucifer in order for us to be able to decide which path we want to go on. Now, even though this is what I agree with with the grand grimoire, the grand grimoire takes it a little bit further because the logic of this book is that as King Solomon did, as a lot of our leaders did, you should just denounce your Creator Source God and just continue to serve Lucifer so your time on this prison planet can be comfortable and lucrative. I know for you guys watching as well as myself, I could not give two shits about how much money a person has. As I've joked before, I've never cared. That's never been something that's entered my head when dating. I've always dated four guys because I've never cared about that. That's not something that's important to me. But for someone who is more psychopathic and doesn't have the same type of compassion or empathy or a person that can't see beyond the physical body into the soul, of course, the idea of having countless money, wealth, fame, power sounds very alluring.  What you do will eventually come back to you. Now, the grand grimoire, even though the whole purpose of it is to summon the head honcho Lucifer, it does talk a lot about how the demons are the old gods, the original gods of this planet. This goes back into the idea of the watchers, the fallen angels who started to mate with the human women in order to create this half breed of what we then called demigods, people who were half human, half God. They were Nephilim. Now, my understanding is actually as far as the Nephilim are concerned, they were both good and bad Nephilim too. And so we have to again understand this idea of polarity. This whole subject of the watchers mating with humans is something that I'm still a little hazy on because I'm not taking the Bible's total word for it. I want to know more about what actually happened because I also believe that there was crossbreeding between off-worlders too, that a lot of us, most humans on this planet, don't originate from this planet. In fact, we do know that the 12 tribes of Israel, the original tribes, were not of this earth, but they were rather galactic tribes who created and cross-created the beings of this planet. Now, in the lesser key of Solomon, it is spoken about 72 demons. But in the grand grimoire, that number is flipped and it's spoken about 27 demons. Now, I personally have not read the grand grimoire. I've just listened to people's commentary on it and read articles on it. I don't want to read it. There's a point with this research when it comes to researching these books that I will draw the line and stop because I do take these stuff very, very seriously and I don't want to unintentionally invite something in that I don't want in. My whole point of understanding these books is simply that, just to understand them so that I have the power and the knowledge to not fall victim to the workings of these grimoires or spell books. Now, according to the grand grimoire, when summoning Lucifer, you are working within these 27 demons and the four demons that run these 27 demons. The four demons that run the 27 demons are like your middleman. They're the hierarchy that you will communicate with in order to eventually get to Lucifer. These are, and I apologize if I do not say these names correctly. There is one name I know I'm going to say correctly though. These are Ardenum, Elohim, Jehovah and Ariel. Yes, you heard me correctly. One of them is called Jehovah.  We have to start questioning everything. We now know that Yahweh is not the Creator God. That's all. And now we understand that Jehovah is a demon that rules the underworld and is in direct communication with Lucifer. And if you go through the ritual of summoning Lucifer, you're going to have to then sell your soul to Lucifer, just like King Solomon did, just like I believe a lot of the people in the Old Testament did because as we're starting to see the Old Testament, the God of the Old Testament is not the good God. It's the Lucifer. As we end this discussion, the one thing I do want to point out that my friend Cindy has pointed out before and that's the grand grimoire and the key of Solomon points out is that anytime you do magic, any type of magic, whether it's for the good or for the bad, you yourself are the conduit. You yourself are the channeler of energy. It's just like if you ever have a Reiki treatment, you can feel the energy coming from the practitioner's hands. They're channeling that through them. Well, the same again for the darkness.  This is why they have to encounter this by doing other practices such as the drinking of particular substances. Over time, the black magic takes a toll on the practitioner. I've heard that many people, especially in the Truther community, who are working for these controllers who are in these covens are now starting to actually show signs of it on camera.  You see their teeth start to change to more sharp and pointed fangs. Now, I don't watch any of these people at all. In fact, I have the ones that I know are bad. I have actually blocked on my YouTube. So I have not watched anything in five months, but I have been sent many, many emails with pictures of this happening from people who are noticing it. And again, this is just another warning.  And how sucky would it be if you were the person sending spells to me and nothing had worked? I'm still alive and you're losing your teeth. So just remember, guys, the devil always comes to collect. Yes, sometimes black magic will work for a moment and you'll be the person who everybody thinks is fantastic and wonderful. But eventually the mask falls and the truth will always come to light for what's done in the dark will always be brought to the light. All right, guys, thank you so much for sitting through that. Please leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below. Once again, all the links I mentioned in this video will be in the description box. Please be kind to each other. I know this is a very, very sensitive topic. I'm just going to start blocking people that are asking me for a name. As I said in the beginning of this video, this, my life has been put at stake and I'm doing the best I can to warn you guys and talk about this in an educational way so that you know what to look for so that you can trust your own discernment. By me saying a name, I'm literally signing my own death warrant. So if you're selfish enough to want the gossip and not care about the safety of all of us and it's not just me who've been attacked, then I will just block you from my channel because that type of behavior is not going to be okay. You don't need a name. You have a connection to God. You have your own discernment. And this is not a gossip channel. This is an educational channel. We're trying to figure things out together. The people who have been doing aggressive spellwork against me for five months are still out there. They're still doing their thing. And so I again have to be very, very careful. I have had a lot of help from whistleblowers who grew up in these groups that have come out of the work to help me. I have filled out affidavits. There's a lot going on behind the scenes that you guys don't know about that I will definitely tell you about once I can, once it's safe to. In fact, one day I hope to actually write a book about this whole experience because wow, what an experience it has been. But for now, please just trust that if I were to say a name or anybody else who's being attacked or were to say a name, it could literally put our lives at risk. And so I need for you guys to truly understand that and understand that there has been a lot of blood involved in this. I have had a lot of physical assaults with this and I just need for you guys to understand the severity. And if you're not being attacked right now, great, don't worry about it. There's probably, you're probably flying under the radar. And I want to also point out that as I said with black magic that you are the conduit, all these dark witches and sorcerers just like us only have a certain amount of energy. Okay. They're not out there just randomly casting spells on people. It's a very, very, very targeted thing. It is very highly organized. And so if you have been targeted, you will know because they will be saying your name on shows a lot. There will be tagging. I was tagged by a bigger channel. That is a channeling channel. I was tagged on that channel. I've also had help from an insider. There is a person who is an infiltrator to the infiltrator that is a part of their coven who has been in contact with me and I'm very grateful. That's how I know a lot of things going on. Once again, I have filled out some affidavits for higher ups. So this is very serious guys. This is not just speculation about people not liking each other. In fact, personally for me, one of the main participating members of this coven was someone that I considered to be a friend of mine that I loved and promoted. She had targeted me and tagged me on her shows before I started filming with her and it was through this that I was shown what I needed to see. And now knowledge is power. Now I know exactly what's going on. And so just understand guys that this is literal spiritual warfare. This is not a reality show. This is not staged. There's no scripts. This is not a movie. This is literal spiritual warfare. We are on one of the biggest battlefields we've ever been in in our lives. So please, please, please have respect for people like me, like JCK others who have been attacked. If they're not saying a name, there's a really good reason why and understand that their safety is at stake and we are giving you enough information that we have that we've learned in order for you to have that knowledge so that you can listen to your own discernment and make your own decisions on top of that. I never want to take your free will away from you. I would never say a name anyway, even if my life wasn't at stake at this point before rest are made. I would not even because you need to make that choice about who you want to follow.  We gave our sovereignty up to the media. We listened to what the news said. We gave our sovereignty up to medicine. We gave our sovereignty up to higher educational systems. We have to stop following the leader. We have to stop this game of Simon says you are a unique soul that has your own spiritual DNA. You have a brain that functions. You have a gut that is totally connected to source. You don't need me to tell you who not to watch nor would I ever do that because that is your free will. That is your choice. If I were to do that, even if this was not a serious situation, if I were to do that before arrest were made, I would be doing the exact same thing as the controllers do.  You make your own decisions about who you watch and who you follow. I don't need to tell you who to watch or who to follow. You decide that you have that power. Just please be patient and please understand that this is this is serious. All right, guys. I hope you're having a wonderful start to a week. It's been really rough time right now, but we're going to get through it and this too shall pass and please know that some of the best days of your life haven't even happened yet. All right, guys. I'll talk to you soon.