It gives me great pride and pleasure to introduce Mr. Andrew Feinstein, former ANCMP who served under Nelson Mandela, author of The Shadow World Inside the Global Arms Trade and is likely to stand against Kia Stammer in Holborn and St. Pankras. Mr. Feinstein, thank you. Thank you very much and first of all, thank you to the organisers for the invitation. It's an enormous honour to be here with all of you, to speak after Selma, after Craig, after George and to see so many absolutely brilliant independent candidates at a time of great difficulty. It is these sorts of meetings, it is the resolve of so many people to show the courage that Selma was talking about to take on our corrupt, mendacious, mediocre politicians both in the local and the forthcoming general election that gives me hope. I must at the outset apologise for the fact that I haven't been here the whole day. I was supposed to last night be participating in the Solidarity Conference with Palestine in Berlin. I was supposed to be speaking on a panel with Dr. Ghassan Abusita. Dr. Ghassan is a British-Palestinian doctor. He is involved with health workers for Palestine. He has been in and out of Gaza over the last six months to attempt to help those who are suffering. He was invited to Berlin by the conference organisers to give a first-hand account of the genocide the Germany, the United States, Britain and many other Western European countries are complicit in. He was arrested at the airport in Berlin and interrogated for three hours. He was then deported and sent back to Britain. Now let's just think for a moment. Germany is a country that has committed two genocides in its history. For those of you who don't know, the indigenous people of Namibia were the victims of a genocide by the German state. My own mother lost dozens of her family in Germany's second genocide, the Holocaust. These people were gassed in Auschwitz where I've had the honour of lecturing on genocide prevention. This is a country that is now providing not just political and diplomatic cover for the state of Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza, but is providing a significant number of the weapons that are being used to commit that genocide just as is the case with the United Kingdom. Yesterday at the conference in solidarity with the people of Gaza, first of all the police arrested a German Jew standing outside the conference venue with a placard that identified himself as a Jew against genocide. They then would not allow people to go into the conference venue. Then they stopped Dr. Gassan for even turning up for the panel that he and I were supposed to speak on. But an hour and a half before that panel was due to take place, the German police stormed the venue, cut off the electricity and the power, and brought the conference to a halt. Now I don't know about you, but from the little bits of history I've picked up in my life, that sort of behavior is what we know as fascism. Germany is prepared to destroy its own democracy, its own freedom of speech, its own right to protest, to defend the indefensible, to defend the genocide being perpetrated against the people of Gaza. Germany is the last country on the planet that should be displaying such fascist behavior. And as a Jew, as a Jew, as the son of a Holocaust survivor, as someone who served with Nelson Mandela and introduced the first ever motion on the Holocaust in the entire history of the South African Parliament, I am disgusted and appalled by the behavior of the German government. But let me tell you something, and this is not going to come as a shock to you. The British government is not very far behind. The behavior towards the massive marches that have been taking place, not just in London, but across the country, week after week, as the vast majority of British people say and have been saying for six months, we demand an immediate ceasefire. The attitude of our government and our so-called opposition describing those marches as hate marches, claiming that they undermine democracy because they call to account our politicians who are benefiting from this genocide. This is corroding our democracy. This is obliterating our right to speak. Our right to speak what we want, where we want, about whom we want. And it cannot continue. And the only way we are going to stop it is by hurting these people, as Selma said, where they hurt most, at the ballot box and in their pockets. And let me explain to you why I talk about the corruption of our politicians and our political processes, why we have to talk about Gaza in the same breath, that we talk about the tough local issues that face our constituents every single day, because they are inextricably linked together. And it is really important that as candidates, we make these links every day across the country in as many localities as we can. The global trade in weapons, which I've been investigating for 23 years now, is the most corrupt of all trades. It accounts for 40% of all corruption in all global trade. That is a truly terrifying number in my own country, South Africa, just four years into our democracy, BAE Systems and Tony Blair turned out to bribe our newly elected politicians in order for BAE Systems to win an arms contract that they were not even shortlisted for. They paid £115 million of bribes to cabinet ministers, to senior officials, to the head of the Defence Force, to executives in our state arms corporation. And at the same time they were doing that in South Africa, they were paying over £1 billion of bribes in seven other countries around the world, destroying those countries' democracies, making those countries poorer, but also undermining the rule of law in Britain itself and corrupting our politics here, because these massive bribes that are paid on each and every arms deal around the world don't only go to the buying country, some of those bribes come back to the senior executives at our defence companies, to our political parties. The defence companies have been the biggest donors to political parties in the western world since the Second World War, and some of that money go to our politicians as well, sometimes even when they're in office. So on the El Yamamar deal with Saudi Arabia, Mark Thatcher, the son of the then Prime Minister, was paid £12 million in bribes. Tony Blair, since he has left office, has made, at a conservative estimate, over £110 million personally from the decision to invade Iraq and from his association with British and American arms companies. But how do they do this? How do these bribes continue to oil the wheels of our political systems by ever increasing defence budgets? In 2023, Britain spent £53 billion on defence. That excludes what they are spending to renew our nuclear weapons, a renewal that will ultimately cost you and me, the taxpayer, £172 billion. So we need to have these ridiculously high defence budgets so that the bribes can be paid, so that the political parties can be funded, so that our politicians can be rich. And that is why my constituency MP, Keir Starmer, knows that even if he only occupies Downing Street for the length of time that Liz trusted, do any of you remember her? She was the one who was the resident there for all of 49 days, 49 days that cost you and me £74 billion. Because of her incompetence, Starmer knows that if he makes the right decisions, even if he was only there for 49 days, he would be a multi-multi-millionaire for the rest of his life. And this is what is profoundly wrong with our politics. And it is why in this country we have the best democracy that money can buy. And it is also why Keir Starmer has pledged to increase British defence spending from two to two and a half percent of GDP by tens of billions of pounds, and why he said he is 100% committed to renewing our nuclear weapons. These tens of billions of pounds are money that should be coming into our communities, that should be helping us who are struggling with the cost of living crisis, that should be improving the NHS, not denuding it of money, that should be improving our education system, that should be ensuring people are paid a living wage for the work that they do and receive benefits that enable them to live a decent life.  And Keir Starmer is only the latest cheerleader for that neoliberalism. And let us not forget, while he is talking about being an unqualified supporter of modernising our nuclear weapons, what was one of the first things he said after he was elected leader of the Labour Party, a supposedly democratic socialist party, he said, I am an unqualified Zionist. And because of the fact that he is received, amongst others, four and a half million pounds, the biggest individual donation in the history of the Labour Party from a South African billionaire called Gary Lubner, whose only political interest is ensuring there is no criticism of Israel, Keir Starmer, who claims to have been a human rights lawyer, has yet to pass comment on the interim ruling of the International Court of Justice in the case brought by my country, South Africa, against the State of Israel. This is a human rights lawyer who has lost all humanity. We cannot, we cannot allow this man to simply walk into Downing Street with a huge majority to do the damage he wants to do to this country. So as we hurtle towards the local elections, as we think about the general election that will be held sometime this year, let us remind ourselves that when we say no ceasefire, no vote, when we demand that British arms sales to Israel, which are in terms of British law, illegal, let alone international law, when we say this, and when we demand an end to brutal illegal occupation, an end to apartheid, and I cannot believe that I'm having to stand here in 2024, still demanding an end to apartheid in this world, when we say all these things and when we make these demands, we must do so in the memory of the tens of thousands who have been slaughtered in cold blood in Gaza, using our weapons made by companies who are subsidised with our tax pounds. We must do so as part of our struggle to help those in Gaza trying every single day just to stay alive. We must join them in their struggle on the campaign trail. And we must join them in their struggle for liberation and freedom. And finally, let us also do so to honour the memory of my former boss, perhaps the greatest anti-racist the world has known. For when Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in an apartheid prison, his first words on his release weren't, I'm free, let's have a party. Instead, he said, our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss correlation versus causation. First of all we shall discuss correlation. We know that correlation describes the relationship between two variables or we can say that correlation describes how variables change with respect to each other that relationship can be weak, moderate, strong, negative or positive. For example we can say marks in our subject increase with increase in class attendance. By looking at the scatter plot for our bivariate data we can tell how the two variables x and y are related to each other and we can tell if there is strong or weak correlation between the two variables but the question arises does the correlation tell us what causes this relationship between the variables x and y the correlation between two variables does not necessarily mean that one caused the other or that they are actually related in real life correlation between two variables means that there is some sort of mathematical relationship between the two this means that when we plot the values we can see a pattern and make prediction about what the missing values might be what we don't know is whether there is an actual relationship between two variables and we certainly don't prove whether one caused the other or if there is some other factor at work thus we define causation as when change in one variable causes the change in other variable for example smoking causes cancer the study have revealed that the people who smoke have higher risk of cancer so there is high positive correlation between the variables smoking and cancer so we can have correlation with causation and correlation without causation first we discuss correlation with causation the variables x and y may be correlated when x causes y to change or vice versa if we consider the following statement working hours has a positive correlation with earnings if we analyze this statement we can clearly see that there is a relationship between working hours and earnings if a person works for less number of hours then he will earn less and if a person works for more number of hours then he will earn more thus with increase in working hours the earnings also increase and with decrease in working hours the earnings also decrease so here change in number of working hours causes earnings to change so there is a positive correlation so there exists a correlation with causation here the independent variable that is number of working hours changes first followed by a change in the dependent variable that is earnings there is no third variable that causes this relationship now we shall discuss correlation without causation let us consider the following statement that is street food consumption has a positive correlation with crime if we think logically we can see that there is no causation in this case that is street food consumption has nothing to do with crime here both variables increase at same time but some third variable controls them it means because of some third variable there is a correlation between these two variables that third variable may be climate which causes the other two variables to change thus the two variables are influenced by a third variable so there is correlation without causation thus after above discussion we conclude that it is wrong to assume that statistical correlation implies causation but the reverse may be true that is causation may lead to statistical correlation this completes our session hope you enjoyed this session


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I'm going to help you with the following question. The question says, find the derivative of x raise to power minus 4 into 3 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 5. Let us start with the solution to this question. Let fx be equal to x raise to power minus 4 into 3 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 5. Let us simplify this expression by opening the bracket. We will have 3 into x raise to power minus 4 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 5 into x raise to power minus 4. This is equal to 3 into x raise to power minus 4 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 5 minus 4 because we know that when bases are same then in multiplication the powers get added. So minus 5 plus minus will be minus, so minus 5 minus 4 we have in the power. This is equal to 3 into x raise to power minus 4 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 9. Now we can find out f dash x that is derivative of fx with respect to x that will be equal to 3 into minus 4 into x raise to power minus 4 minus 1 minus 4 into x raise to power minus 9 minus 1 into minus 9. Now this happens in the first term we see 3 remains as it is because this is a constant, 4 remains as it is because it is a constant x raise to power minus 4. Now when we find the derivative of this we get minus 4 into x raise to power minus 4 minus 1 and in this case we get minus 9 into x raise to power minus 9 minus 1. Now this happens because we know that derivative with respect to x of x raise to power n is equal to n into x raise to power n minus 1. So in the first term n is minus 4 and the second term n is minus 9. Let us simplify this we get minus 12 into x raise to power minus 5 minus minus become plus 9, 4, 3, 6 into x raise to power minus 10 and this can be written as minus 12 divided by x raise to power 5 plus 36 divided by x raise to power 10. So this is our answer to the question. I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


I hate the phrase let go and let God because sometimes I need to let go of God or at least some of the ways I cling so tightly and insist so rightly about God. I need to let go of the answers and hold on to the questions. I need to let go of my faith and hold on to my doubt. I need to let go of my certainty and hold on to my curiosity. I need to let go of my autonomy and hold on to a community. I need to let go of my conformity and hold on to my agency. I need to let go of the God within my grasp to discover a God that can only be glimpsed.


So, I get into work today and what do I see? I get into work today and I see the Portland State University paper is apparently done a hit piece on me. There it is, Professor Bogosian speculates instantaneously intersectionality is the latest cult. Humanity is under attack by neo-Marxist. I don't think I ever use that. The left is censoring free speech in academia, that's certainly true. Professor Bogosian's expose of post-modernism speculates instantaneously as if this is naked oil. Free speech is under attack by neo-Marxist. Impress your colleagues with edgy criticism. The photoshopped piece So, let's see what we have here. The goal in the contemporary bullying style of Trumpist politics is to ridicule others for personal gain. PSU educational collective. PSU pro-educational. These people are... look at that. They're anonymous. We have opted to communicate our concerns through a collective identity rather than individually. Bogosian is not only indicated as less than collegial attitude with his hoaxes, but it's actively targeted faculty at other institutions. Really, where would that be? None of us wish to contend with threats of death and assault from online trolls. I mean it just is utterly incredible to me what the university has become when you have to publish an anonymous hit piece on people. So that's what it is.  They link me with Trump. They attack me as a person. So this group of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I don't know if I can't do that right. This group of ten professors, esteemed professors at Portland State University.  Helen, do you have... do you have headphones? Do I have headphones? Yeah. Yeah, why? Can you please put them in because the feedback is killing me. Oh, okay. Hello? Hello. Can you hear me? Yeah. Is that better? Oh my god. It's a billion times better. Okay. So this esteemed group... Collective. This esteemed collective of ten, roughly ten professors wrote a letter, an attack piece to the Portland State University vanguard that made the front page. Well, it's not even just a hit piece. It's a letter addressed to the students of the university where you teach, trying to play the concerned educator, hey students, you need to be worried about this professor in our midst. This is way worse than a hit piece. And then they accuse you of not being collegiate. His invitation of Google engineer James DeMore tells us to tell us why women are incapable of excelling in tech fields was certainly disrespectful of all of his colleagues who identify as women. DeMore proved barely articulate, much less a serious gender scholar. Barely articulate? Are you kidding me? They published, the professors published a statement saying he's barely articulate. He turned up to something, to a university was hidden in a back room. There were threats to beat him to death with a brick for saying that men and women's gender differences have different interests on average. And then he managed to speak actually pretty articulately for somebody who is autistic and incredibly nervous in front of audience, including hostile people who damaged the sound equipment before getting a police escort out. But they are the victims here who are in danger and they're calling him in articulate and misrepresenting what he said.   A couple paragraphs down these types of fraudulent time wasting anti-intellectual activities are something we are becoming nationally known for under the guise of free speech or academic freedom. When you talk about wasting people time, imagine all the people who read these papers and take them seriously. That's a waste of their time. Talk about wasting somebody's time. They wanted to make a graduate or undergraduate level course in masculinity is based on the Hooters paper. Well, you've just been written up in the Mean Girls burn book. That's what it looks like to me. There's nothing substantial in there. I think that what does this mean for you though? It means that inside PSU there is a pushback and a so what I guess an anti anti Pete thing going on, right? It's an anti you not what I would love to have happen is that some of my colleagues who weren't terrified and who weren't being bullied would write another letter in support of me. But that but they're too terrified. They'd never do that because then they'd be targeted and they could go up before the diversity board. This is this is pretty savage. This part that's highlighted in red is just ridiculous. At the end it says worse yet it jeopardizes the students reputations as their degrees in the process may become devalued. So somehow you're devaluing. They're telling the students of Portland State that your involvement in this project had something to do with devaluing their educations. Chronic and pathological unscolarly behavior inside an institution of higher education brings negative publicity to the institution itself as well as to the honest scholars who work there. This is not about grievance studies degrees being devalued. This is Peter has made every degree at Portland State less valuable by trying to do an audit to raise the quality of scholarship coming out of shit fields. Then they go on make no mistake. We are some of academia's biggest critics.  You're not really academia's critics. You're trying to turn it into a cult. What do you do to something like this? Well that's yeah I mean it's so wrong on so many levels and it's so cowardly and no one will debate us. No one will have a conversation with us. No one will. I mean so that's the question. So what do you do? Do you ignore it? I was thinking about writing a response back to it but who who am I writing a response to? It's probably the Grand Wizard of the Diversity Board. This is an inquisitional maneuvers what this is. This is inquisitorial. There's no way around it.  They didn't even do the slightest amount of their homework. Everything I think in this article is actually wrong. They got our names wrong. They misrepresented D'Amore. They said we didn't engage repeatedly say we didn't engage and there's all this proof we didn't engage. That's the exact opposite of what we did. We engaged. They call us a clown car of hoax riders that doesn't bother engaging with that. Yeah who probably outpublished a whole lot of them. That's probably why they wrote it. We we outpublished their entire careers in ten months. And this is just the attitude that's coming up over and over again. I've had an argument with a couple of academics today quite a few over the last few days and it is this incessant childishness and whining. I mean we had someone yesterday didn't we wrote a hit piece essentially on all of us which was completely dishonest and attacked our characters and then two hours later he's whining that Jim is is going through the article and pointing out the problems with it. My mother is dying. Yeah I'm very very sorry about that. We're not psychic. We can't know that and if you're going to put this out there you have to expect people to respond.  It's but this piece in the Portland Vanguard is really a bit disturbing because it's not just a hit piece written in some social justice thing. It's dear Portland State students by professors at Portland State University warning them about Peter who teaches at Portland State University in their student newspaper. They put it on the front page. They've since threatened. They know that there was criticism of grievance studies so it's just straight in there with all of the buttons pushed at once. Guilt by association. He spoke to this person who we're going to claim is a misogynist. It's we are the victims here. We're under threat. There could be could be online death threats so we have to hide and by the way students get him.  I'll make some I'll make a video out of this. We can take a photo of it. Let's put it up on the web. Yeah exactly. But Peter should Peter do this is it wise for Peter to do this if there is an element of them trying to say trying to get him to do that in order to then say he brought bullying down on them they can then I don't know. I mean they haven't identified themselves but like I don't know. Well yeah I think the the only the only consideration I think what you're trying to hit on there is is Pete will it affect your job if we put this up on the web and I don't care. This has to be answered. It has to be answered. All right let's put it up. So we'll talk about Michael make a video and before the video goes out we'll be very careful in the wording of the tweet. Where we got your back feet as always. Yeah I appreciate it. We'll talk to you later. Take care. Leave it leave it there. 33 minutes Mike that's going to be a fun file to download or to upload. Yeah


Sac Passe, welcome to Head vs. Heart, an online dating advice column where I give two pieces of advice to the questioner, one from the head and one from the heart, and you guys at home vote in the comment section below based on your experience, which would be the better advice to take. Now, this week's question comes from Desiree and she writes, hey, Shannon, my man of three years and I just broke up. This was my first real love. If you could give one piece of advice, how do I get through this? We ended things mutually and it was a smart decision to make. Could I keep in touch with him? If you're feeling compelled to ask this question, more than likely the answer is yes, you should talk to them. It sounds to me like you got some pain to work through.  You work on that for a second. I'm going to talk to Desiree, work on yourself. Anyways, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's divorce gave us a super dope term called conscious uncoupling.  It's when you lean on one another for support, for leverage, for closure, for guidance as the two of you guys maturely and mutually decide it's no longer in your best interest to pursue love any longer. And conscious uncoupling means you can rely on that person for closure, for support, you can still reach out and talk to them, you can still get the answers that you need and that way you walk out of this situation as unscathed as possible. Yes.  Now Desiree, I want you to repeat after me. Love is not your friend. Love is a neurochemical response that is comprised of vasopressin and dopamine and oxytocin that fucks with your serotonin levels. Love is a biological necessity that is designed to make two mates stay together long enough to have and then raise a baby into maturity. Love doesn't have logic, doesn't have a mind. So listen to your head. Your head sees the relationship in its full picture. Your head knows why you guys broke up to begin with and you decided this love was no longer healthy for you.  I don't know about you guys, but to even insinuate that the world's most powerful feeling is nothing more than science rather than a whole lot of magic is actually legitimately offensive. Now at the end of the day, the University of College London did a study that showed that women actually heal better from breakups than men. Now this can be attributed to the fact that when women break up with someone they spend more time by themselves trying to figure out what went wrong, doing damage control, assessing the breakup before just moving on. Now part of this is seeking closure, asking questions, figuring things out, leaning on your partner and deciding to include that person in the process rather than putting all of that struggle and pain onto yourself. So absolutely I'm not saying lean back into your former relationship, but I mean if it leads to that, it leads to that, but I'm just saying get all the closure you need. If you have a question, go ask. You got something to say? Go ahead and say it until there's nothing left to say, but hey, I loved you.  Listen to me, okay? You cannot talk to this person anymore than a crack fiend can get one more hit off the pipe man before totally going clean. You need to look at yourself as an addict right now. Love exists in the reward center of the brain, the exact same place that is hyper activated when somebody is on heroin.  The person who is ripping out your heart will not ultimately complete your soul. It is not destiny or some grand design by the universe that is bounding you and calling you towards this person. It is biology.  It takes the average person a minimum of three months to get over any kind of major trauma until then you're only going to seek out ways to cope with the issue rather than removing yourself from the issue. So by putting yourself back in contact with that person, it is only a matter of time before y'all into that same tangle that you want to break free of from the first place. I'm going to be the first to say that you actually now own a place because you sound like a tin man. Stop talking to them. It's really not supposed to be the head but you sound heartless. The rest is up to you guys. Will it be head or heart? Write it in the comments section below and next week we will tally up the votes plus find out what Desiree did.


Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. This is all about IPOs, exits, Series F, and what's next for the billion-dollar company. So, I want to kick off. We've got Jacob Dugir here from IZETL. This is a later-stage company. They're valued quite highly, definitely a unicorn, and we've got a venture capitalist and a dean of freedmen of the NASDAQ here. So, guys, what kind of advice would you give to a company like IZETL if they were looking to go public right now? Well, I would say I think that your company has done a spectacular job of building a base, having a great business plan, and you're at the stage where you have a lot more predictability into the future of your business. And at that point, it's time to start to look at how can you get access to permanent capital to continue to allow yourself to grow over the many, many years that you're going to be in existence as a great innovator in a fintech company. So, we would be welcome, we welcome the opportunity to have a conversation with you about how best to get access to that permanent capital, but also to make it so that your early-stage and mid-stage investors have a chance to have a great liquidity event as well. So, we look forward to having that conversation when the time is right. That's a great pitch. That's a great pitch. Thank you. You're welcome. I would say, in addition to choosing NASDAQ as probably the primary consideration, I would say the advice, I ran Goldman's internet business for 10 years before becoming a venture capitalist, and the advice we would always give great companies like Isettle is you don't go public when you can go public, you go public when you want to or when you're ready to go public. And a lot of people can make that mistake to say, oh boy, I can go public. It used to be a mistake more in the past. You want to basically wait as long as you feel necessary to wait. And the good news is there's a tremendous amount of capital available in the private markets that wasn't previously there, but being public is not such a bad thing so long as your company is ready for it. So, Jacob, are you thinking about going public at all anytime soon? Well, a lot of people are thinking about it, so I need to think about it as well. But what we have said so far is really that we're preparing the company, and obviously subject to all market conditions. But it's a lengthy process, so we have started that process. Interesting. And what does that mean getting the company ready? Because there's a lot of entrepreneurs here who might say, well, you know, in a few years, if I have a company big enough and I want to take it public, what does that mean? It means a lot of administration and a lot of preparations. But it also means actually that you get a good sort of second opinion of the state of your business, I would say. I mean, we need to run through all the different processes that we have, all our different sort of committees, but also looking at the fundamental core. Are we in a good place or not? So, it takes a lot of management time and involvement from all employees. Scott, you wrote a piece recently, or you're working on a piece around companies staying private for longer, and actually some of the issues that arise from that as well. Can you just lay out your thinking around what we've seen, the trends in that space, and what are some of the potential pitfalls? Yeah, absolutely. I would say to the point about a company being ready, the most important thing is predictable growth. Know your business well. Know that you can predict ideally quarter to quarter, because public investors, especially hedge funds, the institutional investors are ruthless when it comes to surprises. Your private investors are much more forgiving when it comes to surprises. So know your growth well, and most companies don't, and that's a hard kind of hurdle to get over. But what's fascinating, what's happening, as these companies are waiting much longer to go public, the lion's share of the kind of fundamental growth, let's call it alpha, is being captured by private investors. When you look at IPOs like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Amazon, if you bought, if you looked at Amazon value creation before and after the IPO, 1,000 times the value. So if there's a dollar value before the IPO, $1,000 were created for the public investors, Facebook, that numbers 2.8 or 3. Google, I think, is 30, stark difference. And so that's a real challenge of your retail investor that doesn't have access to private investing, to then be coming into the public markets and not see that alpha that's historically been available. Right. I mean, that's, I think, the biggest issue when we talk about how do we make the public markets more attractive to companies earlier in their life cycle, but still at a point where they do feel like they're ready. And I agree with you. You should go public when you want to go public, not just because you can. But at the same time, we talk a lot about the wealth disparity issues that are starting to be created, particularly in the United States. I would say it's more of an issue in the U.S. than it is in the Nordics. Just want to do a quick plug for the Nordics. We've had 100 new listings in the Nordics this year. It's been a record year raising 4 billion euros this year. And so the public markets in the Nordic region are actually quite vibrant for small to medium companies as well as more established companies. But in the U.S., what we're finding is that it is a big step to go into the public markets. And yet that means that retail investors are not getting access to great growth companies at that growth phase, which is going to increase the wealth disparity in the country. And also you find that that value creation is also coupled with job creation. So a lot of companies after they go public, about 76 percent of all job creation since 2000, has come after the companies have gone public because they do have access to permanent capital. So we do want to make it so that the public markets are more attractive to companies like yourself. So you shouldn't feel like it's this massive burden and this huge obligation to be a public company. So what can we do about that? Should we make it so we have semi-annual disclosure obligations instead of quarterly disclosure obligations so that you can have more of, you can have, be more growthy and a little less predictable quarter to quarter but still show that you're meeting your business plan? Should we make it so that the proxy access is raising the skin in the game for someone to have access to your proxy? There are a lot of things we can do, I think, to make the public markets more attractive. And Nasik's very focused on that. Jacob, is that something that you're thinking about about what could be done, what could be changed, what could be reformed in the public markets that wouldn't make it more attractive for a company like yours, not necessarily Isattel, but for these larger European startups that we have now? Your question to me was what kind of preparations were needed to potentially go public and I was just describing some of the processes. Then obviously there are some very clear benefits. I mean if a company like Isattel who wants to continue on a growth path, going public would mean that we could access capital to pursue that option. And I mean it comes with the visibility and the possibility of attracting new people to the company and so forth, new currency to acquire other companies. So there are lots of benefits but not really sure if the process could be that different. I mean still you need this sort of transparency, you need to have your ducks in the road to be a listed company. So probably a question for you how you could potentially sort of simplify the process, whether it could be simplified or not, I'm not sure. Yeah I think that's a great question because on the one hand when you're going public you're accessing that average retail investor. So you're averaging the mom and pop and they have they have a right to know information, you know have information and disclosures but in some areas of the world, particularly in the United States and I would say even here too, there are a lot of politically motivated disclosure obligations put on public companies as well that frankly aren't really relevant to making a proper investment decision. So one of the things we're trying to do is get rid of some of those but the other thing is can you know the financial advisors in the Nordics are actually particularly helpful in giving you the ability to kind of navigate you through the go public process. We do a lot of education around that but it is still a big undertaking. It's a and it is a distraction to the management team so it's a matter of making sure you feel like the business is in solid shape. It's going to continue to grow and do well while you're in that process and then it's just it's really a matter of making sure you have the right advisors to lead you through it. Jacob from your perspective as a European entrepreneur is there still a sense from European entrepreneurs that the US still looks like a more attractive place to list than the European markets? Wow that's a good question. I mean from my perspective we're in in the heart and so we're a Swedish company. We don't have any sort of US presence or revenues coming from the US so for us if we were to to to go public eventually I'm not really sure the US would be our sort of natural go to market. It would make much more sense to go to some European market where we actually have presence and sort of the market actually knows about the company. Yeah we actually have their vibrant markets in a lot of different countries but obviously the Swedish market is a fantastic market and we have had a lot of great successful companies come into the Swedish market but you're right if you are a global company with a global presence and you have global clients and you want to really promote a global brand that's when you start looking at the US and saying well perhaps I could get a different valuation but I'd like to hear from you Scott because you having been a banker and now a venture investor and guiding these companies as they grow how do you look at you've talked about the timing but also how do you look at the different capital markets and what's available to them. Well I actually in addition to those I was a section 16 officer of public company. Oh there we go. So back in the bubble. So you have to sign your life away. Yes exactly. So I got to live as a officer of a public company. I think you're dead on you go to the markets that know you best and as long as there's depth of liquidity and as you point out there's lots of alternative markets that's fine and you can always do an ADR in US if you find there's demand. You would know better than any of us in terms of the depth but the depth of the US market is still by far unique in the global landscape and so if you need to tap that you got to have a listing in the US but it's really a function of what you're looking for and how much you need to place. The thing that you mentioned that I thought was interesting about helping make IPO's easier. You're in exchange. You're not the SEC. You're not FINRA. You're not the you're not the largest hedge funds or mutual funds. So I mean your hands are tied just like our hands are tied to some degree. Well we're just players in this bigger game and and it's hard for me to see the public markets changing that much. It's hard to see maybe over time but it's hard to see the hedge funds the mutual funds the SEC changing overnight and yet I think you guys are in a really interesting position to help private companies perhaps have a gradual IPO. Think of it as like a gradual public offering as opposed to initial public offering and easing them into a secondary trading in a way where you don't get secondary prices in front of public prices like what happened in Facebook. Right. So I think there's a lot of room for innovation how we can just evolve this as opposed to being this stark binary like I'm public now. So I should I should just be handing you a little bit you know under the table here. So we have something called the Nasik private market that does allow private companies to have access to episodic liquidity and we basically facilitate tender offers and that's generally been very successful for early stage investors and and longer standing employees. So as a private company if you do stay private longer you do want to offer the ability for an employee to have some liquidity to buy that house to make sure that they can educate their kids as sexually as they want. And so we do have something called the Nasik private market and it is kind of in a way I wouldn't say it's an on ramp but it does allow you to have access to periodic liquidity and handing the liquidity to other private hands. Well and the sovereigns have what six trillion dollars. Right. Exactly. 60X if you look at sovereign investments it's a 60X increase. Sovereign investments in tech companies in like the last 10 years eight years it's incredible. So you map that six trillion to your private placement business and that gets very interesting. Yeah so we are we definitely are growing very fast and it's becoming a big part of that private journey is to basically use the tender offer process to allow for early liquidity and then move them over time into the public market. Guys I want to I want to change tech as well into a different part of the fundraising spectrum. Something that's arisen really really big in 2017 and that's the initial coin offering and what with that the rise of the cryptocurrencies this year as well into perhaps more mainstream acceptance. Jacob I want to start with you we've seen your US rival Square says it's experimenting with Bitcoin. Is that something you're looking at as well? Well the thought has crossed our mind a long time ago but we realize that still very few people tend to buy sort of coffee and things with Bitcoin. There are other currencies more frequently used so we focus on that. However I mean from the technology side of things I mean blockchain is something that we're sort of experimenting with both for internal and sort of external processes but no we haven't we haven't launched sort of Bitcoin offering to our merchants just yet. And Adina just in the last day or two you guys announced that you're going to offer a Bitcoin futures product. What's the thinking behind that why? So you convinced that Bitcoin is more than a fraud as Jamie Diamond says and actually something that's here to state. So we actually haven't announced anything and so really we're we're continuing to evaluate whether the Bitcoin can be an asset class that is subject to a more regulated market environment. We do believe that we're worried to look at bringing the Bitcoin into a regulated market environment that there are two ways to do that. There's the future and that allows for hedging and other other kind of trading strategies. There's also the ETF and the US has not yet allowed for ETFs Bitcoin ETFs to be listed but in the Nordics we have actually two exchange traded notes listed in the Nordic markets a sec denominated Bitcoin ETN as well as a Euro denominated Bitcoin ETN as well as an Ethereum ETN. So here in the Nordics they've actually been more open to looking at this as an asset class and allowing for investors to have access to that asset class through a regulated market. The US is still I would say still evaluating it in general. Could you give us a few more details? Are you actually planning to launch this? We've cited in our story on CNBC.com we've cited some officials saying that this this is in the works. Can you give us something a bit more concrete? I would just say that we've been having active dialogue with a lot of clients and with partners about what what might be possible over time. But you mentioned ICOs. Yeah, I want to shift to ICOs. That's what I was going to jump on because look you know there's a sucker born every minute right there's there's buyer beware and and when you look at some of these ICOs not all of them they are based on nothing other than an idea a concept that's loosely mapped to some company name and as we were talking about backstage yeah there's a very fundamental difference between these ICOs and and equity that you would buy in the public stock and that is equity you're not actually buying an asset an underlying ownership claim to that company and that gets really really sketchy and scary it's not to say there isn't a place for them though if you think about the success of crowdfunding you think about the success of getting people excited and interested in a company and access to a company before others might have access to it there is a place for it but I would be extremely thoughtful and careful if you're thinking about buying an ICO to say what am I actually getting here right beyond the hype beyond the excitement do you think there are fads Scott do you think they're just kind of going to disappear I don't know are they a genuine perhaps rival to VC funding even an IPO well let me put it this way if a founder is able to do an ICO and not end up in jail yes they should do that versus taking any other capital because it's free money there's no they're not giving up equity it's literally free money do I think it'll come crashing down probably not will there be a significant reset will the regulators get involved will there be a a complete blow-up I think you were commenting on one just recently or somebody was saying they've read about something recently where where the company didn't even exist and they can't find the people anymore they they skip town I couldn't find the CEO he doesn't exist so you know there there's going to be scams for sure and and so the retail investor has to be protected so yes I think there will be a reset a significant reset probably not unlike what we saw in the bubble where you had a lot of companies that were being marketed off of ideas and hand waving and there was a significant reset among investors and regulators yeah Jacob just want to jump back to your point as well very quickly on blockchain you said this is a promising technology something of course you guys are looking into as well what's the promise of this technology for a company like is that well actually right now what we're evaluating is whether we can use it for our actually for internal systems rather than anything that we're displaying to to our merchant base so the sort of the way it's structured and the the benefit it gives is also benefits to to us internally yeah guys just want to wrap up we're almost out of time so just give us your outlook a little bit Adina we've we've seen some stocks come to new companies come to market the likes of loads of them have listed this year but they've got off to a fairly sluggish start a lot of those stocks what are you what is your outlook for 2018 in terms of new entrants to the market well I would actually say a couple things for on the companies that have come and listed on nasdaq this year and we have had about a little over 60% of the companies that come to market in the US have listed on nasdaq the average return across those companies is 20% so far this year so the companies that have chosen nasdaq as their listing venue have actually had a really great experience a lot of them are these b2b software companies cyber security companies as well as some really great consumer companies and I think that that have leveraged the technology to be basically to create it almost like a subscription service and so we've actually had a lot of success with the companies that have chosen the the nasdaq we've had over 140 IPOs so far this year in the US but the real success story has been the Nordics and with a hundred new listings this year in the Nordics if you think about that in this relative to the size of the countries they're really punching above their weight in terms of bringing bringing getting access to the public markets in terms of 2018 I would say that we continue to see a really really strong pipeline of companies looking to go public and it's just a matter of them feeling like the environment is ready for them and that they're ready to to enter into the public markets got super quickly probably a question you can't answer but uber is of course a portfolio company Dara Koshoshahi the CEO said 2019 isn't in the works for an IPO can they hit that timeline given everything that's happened and do you think that's a realistic time frame yeah my co-founder chervin pitch of our night we're lucky enough to be in uber from the very early days the series be and we've watched that company grow up like no other company we've ever seen and that's backing Facebook and LinkedIn and Palantir a bunch of other companies in our careers frankly this company could go public whenever it wants to go public there's no question in terms of the underlying metrics it's just a function of when they decide and when they're ready great we're gonna have to wrap this up I'm afraid the nasdaq opening bell is next so guys thank you for joining us and thank you very much to our panelists thank you thanks


It's now time for a member's statements. I recognize the member for Mishkegawa James Bay. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak about a problem that adults with disability face in Moose Factory. Last week I had the honour and the pleasure to visit the Billy Bayou Program, a community-based program dedicated to improving the quality of life of adults and young adults with intellectual disability who are members of the Moose Creek First Nations. The program is run by five incredible staff with a financial assistant at the Moose Creek and the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Service. The love and the commitment of their staff is beyond words Mr. Speaker. The participants are all 21 years or older and have no other program offering at their disposal but the Billy Bayou. And as their parent age and try to keep up with their other responsibility, Billy Bayou is the heart and soul of their lives. Mr. Speaker, sadly the Ministry has not lived up to its funding promise. On January 17th the Ministry informed the program that the contract would be terminated because your government's focus is on reducing the province deficit. It means that as March 31st the program risk to disappear. The closure of the Billy Bayou program would be devastating for these people, their family and Moose Creek community. I invite the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Service to travel with me to Moose Factory to see with her own eyes. Otherwise I would be more than happy to meet with the Minister to provide a solution to this matter. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the member for Kitchener, Conestoga. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Today is Waterloo Region Advocacy Day here at Queen's Park. From day one MPP's Amy Fee, Belinda Kara-Haleos, and I have hosted multiple Ministers and Parliamentary Assistants in our region. This includes the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade to announce the Restoring Ontario's Economic Competitiveness Act provision for fair and open tendering. The President of the Treasury Boards visited the Communitech Hub earlier this month. The Minister of Infrastructure to open a bridge in Wellesley Township. The list goes on Mr. Speaker, but I want to highlight one visit in particular. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to invite the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to sit down with local mayors and CAOs. In two meetings, first with the rural townships of Wellesley, Woolwich and North Dumfries, and then with the Region of Waterloo and the Cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. The Minister engaged in a fulsome discussion with the City of Waterloo, the Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan and Affordable Housing. They were encouraged that they had a Municipal Affairs Minister with real experience as a Mayor and CAO who understands the constraints of municipal budgets and particularly the burdensome regulatory process for project approvals from Queens Park. I will continue to stress that Waterloo Region with its incredible rural and urban diversity and resolute pioneering spirit should be encouraged to continue to go to the next level. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements, the Member for Kiwetanomu. Mr. Speaker, colleagues, today I want to outline the notion of jurisdictional ambiguity. Most First Nations are keenly aware of this. In fact, we've had to survive its consequences over many generations. Given conversations in the House recently, particularly those about Cat Lake First Nation, I come to realize that my colleagues across the floor either don't know about this notion or when they do, they simply do not care. Jurisdictional ambiguity came to light when a little boy named Jordan Andersen from Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba was left to suffer in the hospital from birth until he died at the age of five. Neither the province nor the federal government felt it had the constitutional responsibility to provide Jordan with care at home. Jordan and his family waited for the care at home that never came. Like Jordan, children and youth and elders in Cat Lake First Nation currently require healthcare by both levels of government. Instead, we argue about responsibility. We are told by the government I called the chief yesterday or we are working towards a solution or worse we even floored the federal government to act immediately because this is their responsibility. It is time to move past jurisdiction or ambiguity because the consequence of our complacency will result in health deteriorating or lives lost. Miigwech. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Mississauga, Erin Mills. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Through the completion of the Credit Valley Hospital Re-development project in my writing of Mississauga, Erin Mills, our government has shown its commitment to improving healthcare for all Ontarians and giving our frontline workers the resources they acquire and need to provide the ultimate and optimal care. The Premier, Minister of Health, Minister of Infrastructure, along with my fellow PC colleagues and myself join Trillium Health partners for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 23rd of last year. Our government has made a promise to make our health a priority and we have already taken immediate actions. We are investing in Credit Valley Hospital $542,080 to help those in need of mental health and addiction treatment. I was pleased to go in person at the Credit Valley Hospital and see the new mental health beds added in the emergency and let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, it was definitely needed. Also our Minister of Health and long-term care made an announcement in January regarding investments in hospital upgrades, repair and maintenance. Part of that investment, Trillium Health partners have received more than $4 million to ensure their facilities continue to meet health code and maintain a safe environment at their hospital sites. I want to congratulate the Trillium Health partners, the CO, Michel Hanwell and all the team for their great work ethic and how efficiently they continue to operate and plan to help end-way, whole-way health care and provide a patient-centered experience. Thank you. Thank you. Member statements. The Member for Algoma, Manitoula. Thank you, Speaker. I want to talk about Josephine Mademine, who is a well-known elder and a water protector from First Nation, who has recently passed on to the spirit world at the very young age of 77. In 2003, she was the co-founder of Mother Earth Waterwalk. She also eventually walked across and along all the shores of not one, not two, not three, but all five of our great lakes for a total distance of 17,000 kilometers. Josephine leaves behind her husband, her eight children, 13 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Josephine inspired Autumn Pelty, who is also a water protector in the midst of us. Josephine served as the head of the Anishinaabic Women's Water Commission, along with the Waterwalk Group, received the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservancy.  They walk in silence, but they walk with a cause. And I have to say that I am very proud to have known Josephine, but I'm also proud that Josephine has touched Autumn Pelty, and Autumn Pelty will be taking up her cause, will be taking up her journey, and will be taking up her quest in protecting our waters for all of us. Member Statements, the member for Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight Milestone celebrations in my writing. Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Township of Alexandria, one of the historical pillars of the province of Ontario. The evening's gala was the culmination of two years of work. A big thank you to the organizing committee and I had the honour for me to highlight the 125th anniversary of the St. Albert fromagerie cheese factory, which is one of the oldest cooperative in Canada, the oldest one in the Francophone world. It continues to function for over 100 years. And there's no place I'd rather be than here, representing the great people of Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Thank you to my staff for all the balloons in my office today, especially the ones that say 22, because hopefully I still look like that. And also for the flowers from my very special friends in Ottawa, they know who they are. And to all my constituents who have been writing and calling, it's really nice to my heart and I really appreciate it. Thank you. Merci. Member Statements, thank you very much. Thank you, Speaker. On Friday, February 8th, I, along with my Durham Region colleagues and the Minister of Seniors and Accessibility had the pleasure of attending the opening ceremony of the Ontario Parasport Games at the Abilities Centre in Durham Region. The Ontario Parasport Games promote public awareness of Parasports and showcase Ontario's best athletes. During the Games, people of all abilities had the opportunity to compete, show their skill and demonstrate sportsmanship. I want to thank the Games Organising Committee and the hundreds of local volunteers who made the Games possible. And even special Durham Region 2019 tukes for the Games. Thank you for making the Games a great success. The Games are delivered through a partnership between host municipalities and through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport. They are an opportunity for all of us to demonstrate our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity. And I'm proud of the strong legacy of Parasport leadership in Durham Region. The Abilities Centre, spearheaded by the late Honourable Jim Flaherty and our incredible Minister of Health and Deputy Premier Christine Elliott, along with the Region of Durham have been on the cutting edge of providing support and opportunities to people of all abilities. Speaker, to quote one of the taglines of the 2019 Parasport Games, when we all play, we all win. Thank you, Speaker. Member States, Member for Hamilton East, Stoney Creek. Speaker, the official website for the Tourism, Culture and Sport states that it is responsible for championing participation in sport and through recreation activities across our great province. If this were indeed the case, Speaker, the big debate within the Ministry would be focused on more than just Ontario's place as future casino or condos. All the while, Speaker, the people of my riding, particularly the people of Stoney Creek and Winona are having to pack their kids into minivans and drive as far as the GTA to ensure that they can continue to remain active in sports because December 4th of last year, when I first officially asked the minister and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports to sit down with me to have a serious discussion about the issues of players' paradise being sold to another private firm and it was turned into a marijuana production facility. I made the issue abundantly clear that people of my riding were losing not only their only climate controlled year round indoor sports facility in the region and there are no plans to fill that massive void in recreation space. No one from the Ministry of Tourism came back to me, put simply athletics, exercise and sport are now more difficult to obtain in my riding than ever before. At a time where public service announcements, daily tweets and media releases remind the people of this province of the importance of daily exercise our government has no answer to the public's demand for a space where they can stay fit and have fun. No one speaker should have to drive from Hamilton to Toronto for their child to play soccer just as no senior should be expected to commute to the other end of the park in a fitness program inside a climate controlled facility. Speaker, it is time the provincial and federal government step up to the plate and help our community. I'm sure the minister will get back to me very soon. Member Stevens, the member for Carlton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Next Friday, March 8 is International Women's Day. This is a time to take the opportunity and reflect on the hard fought progress of women and the men who have supported them towards their community. My team and I, along with local city councillors, have a long day of events planned all across Carlton to celebrate the occasion. Rito Goldberg and councillor Scott Moffitt's team and I will be starting off by hosting a breakfast reception from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. that morning at Dambi's Roadhouse restaurant located in the beautiful town of Richmond just steps from my constituency office. Then you can join me for lunch in Stitsville at the local one p.m. and afterwards I'll be heading over to Metcalf to enjoy high tea at the City of Ottawa Client Service Centre with councillor George DeRue's from 2 to 4 p.m. Finally, I will be ending my day with some appetizers at the Ritoview Community Centre in Riverside South from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. joined by councillor Carol Ann Meehan. These events are free and open to the public and I encourage everyone to join me. I'm looking forward to this important day, Mr. Speaker and I would like to ask all members of the Assembly to join me in acknowledging all of the amazing women across the province who continue to inspire us. To learn more about my events you can go to my website, goldiempp.ca Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Mrs. Saga Moulton. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, violence against women and girls is one of the most common violation of human rights. On one hand, none of us and I really appreciate this life without a woman on the other hand. Just in Canada alone, violence claimed the life of a woman or a girl every two and a half days and sadly, 44% of those lost lives happen here in Ontario. Mr. Speaker, I'm fortunate to have interim place as an organization in my writing of Mrs. Saga Moulton devoted to help women and children who face violence. The organization provides shelter, counseling and advocacy and act as a lead agency of the Peel Committee Against Women Abuse. Since 1984, interim place has helped over 42,000 women and children. In 2018 alone, they have safely sheltered 155 women and 98 children. Responded to 1700 crisis calls supporting 485 women and 275 children trapped in abusive relationship. We know how devastating and real this issue can be. The recent murder of 11-year-old Ria Rajkumar again from my writing shook me deeply. As a parent of a young daughter, I am concerned. If violence against women has to stop, we all need to play a role in speaking up and speaking out against violence. I'd like to thank Sharon Floyd who's here and Rebecca Rogers, all the staff and board member of interim place for the amazing work they do at their service. Interim place is raising funds by hosting annual Ray of Hope gala on Saturday March 2nd at Lakeshore Convention Center. I will be attending Mr. Speaker and I'll request other members to join me in supporting the women and children who access interim place and service by attending and helping to spread the word about this Ray of Hope gala. Thank you.


Hey guys, what's going on? I hope you're doing well and if you're not, I hope your day gets better today. I'm talking about something that might break a tree in the world, I'm today. Don't let me drive, don't let me drive. Today I'm going to be talking about parental responsibility. And this has only occurred within like the last 48 hours. I wasn't going to talk about it, but it's due on my head, to be honest. Just to be very blunt right at the beginning, if you have a child and you don't like what they are watching, that is your responsibility, not the responsibility of the creator. It's okay more because I've hosted a video talking about my physical health and in that video I collapsed. It's the one where I fainted, I hit the floor, I went whoosh and I wiped the floor, so that wasn't good. That happens to me quite a lot that it happens most days for me because my blood pressure is low. I'll put a screenshot of my very recent taking of it here, because I took a photo to send Becca. My blood pressure is low, so I collapsed. And I'm only now going under investigation and they currently suspect that I have POTS, which is a tachycardia condition. It would make sense given a lot of experience, but hey, if you're testing then we'll know, we'll have a diagnosis, we'll know what to do, we'll know how to move forward, that's what it's all about. So the comment I got was on that video, this is what they put to me. I'd like to know after you got off, why did you think to look at the camera?  Where else am I supposed to look? At the floor? At the ceiling? Is my eyes? I don't know, that annoyed me. Wouldn't you check if you banged your head? I knew and as you can see in the video that I was going down, was saying I feel like headed, so I was leaning against my door, so I would slide down either one way and only whack the side, or this side or something. I leaned against the door intentionally, so I wouldn't injure myself. Like I said, there's something I've dealt with since I was yay high, like this has been an ongoing issue. It's actually not as bad as it used to be, I used to collapse and have seizures when I was younger. Wouldn't you check if you banged your head? I did and I also had the mentality mount the same night and they are training professionals, they everything count and just told me to rest. I'm confused also, when you dropped, did you pass out? I don't know, I didn't like completely pass out, I fainted. I was only down, I was on the floor for about a minute, two minutes, and then I make. Because when you faint, I'm confused and very concerned, my daughter has just watched this and asked me to watch, she's very very vulnerable. I don't know what your daughter, watching my video has got to do with me. Your daughter is your daughter, you have to moderate them, not me. My videos don't meet the criteria to age a strict. My channel's not that bad compared to a lot of other mental health YouTubers, who do show fresh cell phone intentionally. I've never intentionally shown cell phone. Obviously I have scars and I'm not going to hide that. The fact that your daughter is vulnerable means you should take more control of it. And what I put in the comment back was literally answering everything she asked. I didn't, I also mean horrible, I was being bluntly honest. They are your kids, your responsibility. Which is true, your kids are not my look-out, I'm not their parent, I don't have kids, I'm 22, I've never claimed to be family-friendly. On YouTube when you're low, now you have to say whether it's suitable for kids or not, and I always click no.  I don't set my videos up for kids because they're not. I swear, talk about sensitive subjects. I just, I literally posted on YouTube, I just need to say this because people have said it before, people say it again. At least then it's just there.  I didn't say who this person was, I didn't saw a video that was from. I literally just said that what your child does has nothing to do with me. What can I do? You are physically with them. You can put apps on their phone to prevent them searching certain key words. That's your responsibility, not mine. My channel is literally dedicated to mental health awareness. And health awareness, and just living life with mental illness. Nothing about that needs to be age-restricted. Mental illness affects people of all ages. And there are so many documentaries about children with mental illness. And I'm not going to get into that, but children, adults, mental health affects all of us. And I try and make my videos as educational as possible, which is why I left that fainting clip in. I left that clip in because I know there are other people out there that happens to you. And I can say that just by reading the comments section on that video and on the other videos that people relate to what I say. And I wouldn't change that. Like, I wouldn't change what I do and what I say. Like, yes, in the past, I have made mistakes. You know, I used to use cocaine. I used to drink alcohol every day. You know, I've made mistakes, but I'm not afraid to own up to them. As someone who, as a child, got censored from... I knew nothing about mental health when I was a kid. I knew nothing about serious health issues as a kid.  Like, I was so shielded from the real world that made me slower in school. I was the slow kid. You know, I wasn't up to date with how people was. It took me a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of energy to catch up with everyone else. Like, I didn't grow up the same rate as other kids because I was so shielded from everything. My overall thing here, though, is I'm not gonna start censoring my own content just because of one parent. YouTube Kids app exists for a reason. I ran until locks exist for a reason. They should be used for that. Don't blame creators for your kids searching up...  I'd probably sit down with them and have a chat about it, just talk to them. And that fainting video, you know what? All that went on in that video was I celebrated my birthday, I got home, and my body was running so fast that I fainted because my blood pressure had dropped and my heart rate went insane. That's all that vlog was. There was nothing... There wasn't enough about mental health in that. That's kind of what I've got for this video. Come communicate with you guys, have a conversation with you guys. Like, what's your opinion on this? Let me know in the comments down below. Let me know in the comments down below. And I'll see you guys in my next video. Peace.


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I think it really makes us understand how fragile our lives are and how much we're going to have to fight for our existence, our very existence, in this corner of the world. Welcome to this special broadcast on I-24 News. I'm Khaled Bendevi. This month marks the 38 years since I started as a journalist in Israel, and nothing was like the last two months. This has been the most challenging, most emotional, most heartbreaking, and in some ways the most complex story that I've had to cover during that time. And never have I felt the kind of responsibility that I had to present this story to the world in the right context with the right facts and to really speak truth to power in this situation. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on American TV that every day his country was moving closer to a normalization deal with Israel. In Iran, opponents of the regime had just quietly mocked a year since Masa Amini was murdered by security forces for failing to cover her hair, a killing which had sparked an unprecedented challenge to the Islamic regime. Trade between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was booming in the West Bank amid a spike in terrorist attacks. The IDF was carrying out almost daily raids on Palestinian cities like Jenin and Nablus. Peace seemed more distant than ever. Then on October 7th, the Jewish holiday of Sibrat Torah, everything changed. The Middle East correspondent Arab Osir An has this report. Till October 7th, there were high hopes for big changes in the Middle East. Talk of U.S. mediated peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which in turn would spread to other Arab countries, created much anticipation. But then, after thousands of Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israeli communities and IDF bases, slaughtering, burning, and kidnapping everything in their path, the delicate house of cards collapsed. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms its categorical rejection of the continuation of aggression, occupation, and the forced displacement of Gaza's population. The Kingdom holds the occupation authorities responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people and their properties. We are certain that the only way to guarantee security, peace, and stability in the region is to end the occupation's siege and settlements. But sidelining Israel's Saudi normalization for the unforeseeable future was only one of the effects of that dark October 7th on the region. It also saw the solidification of the Iranian axis of proxies. From Iraq to Lebanon, all the way to Yemen, Tehran's branches all began to attack Israel. We are in a multi-arena war. We are being attacked from seven different sectors, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. We have already responded and taken action. And I say here in the most explicit way, anyone who acts against us is a potential target. There is no immunity for anyone. In an attempt to get a better understanding of how the region as a whole was affected by the October 7th attacks, I-24 News reached out to journalists in the region to give their perspective. One of them is a journalist from Yemen. He blurred his face and distorted his voice for his safety, speaking with an Israeli-based news outlet. Perhaps the most surprising front to many has been the continuous drone and missile attacks by the Houthis in Yemen towards Israeli territory and then at international commercial ships navigating through the Red Sea. The Yemeni armed forces affirmed their continued support for the Palestinian people as part of the religious, moral and humanitarian duty, and confirmed the continuation of operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea against Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine, until the food and medicine needed by the Gaza Strip are brought in. But according to the journalist in Yemen, the Houthis are simply the ones pulling the trigger in service of their patrons. Beyond emboldening the Iranian access, the October 7th attacks also seem to have affected the streets in many of the region's capitals in support of the Palestinians. I see a lot of change among the awareness of ordinary people who never really paid attention to political issues of the Palestinian situation. I've seen, especially in Arab countries, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, many of the countries are really much more involved now. And I think we've seen also progressives and young people around the world taking up the Palestinian cause in a much more powerful way than we've ever seen before. Like the journalist in Yemen, Qutb too believes that the war in Gaza has put a strain on Israel's existing peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt. The both peace streets have held on so far, but on a very thin ice. I think that there is strong opposition in both countries to their countries continuing the peace agreements. But more importantly, I think people want civilian lives to be saved. Besides threats, there are some silver linings that have emerged from the horrific attacks on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza. Not only the American-led Maritime Coalition aimed at ensuring the safe navigation in the Red Sea, but that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan all intercepted Houthi drones and missiles over their territories on their way to Israel. An indication that Jerusalem does have shared strategic interests in the balance of power in the Middle East. Well, I think Arab countries are trying to be peacemakers as much as they can. They're trying to provide material support to people who are in terrible need. And I don't think we've seen a major shift, especially in countries that have had no organization relations with Israel. The leaders are still insisting on keeping some form of relationship, even though public opinion has changed. And so with the war in Gaza in full steam and further escalation with his balloon horizon, the October 7th attacks seem to have changed not only Israel, but the region as a whole. Now Israel finds itself at a critical juncture, a regional war or increased regional cooperation. Whether or not it's up to Israel to decide what the outcome will be, that still remains to be seen. Well, to discuss how the conflict has impacted cooperation between Israel and its Gulf allies, we can head to Abu Dhabi. We're joined by Laouai al-Sharif, peace activist and expert in Arab-Israeli relations. Great to see you, Laouai. Thank you very much for joining us. So looking back, has this been a success for Iran in terms of derailing the peace between Israel and its partners in the Gulf? Temporarily, Laura, first of all, good to see you and good to see everyone. And I hope, inshallah, that the new year will be a prosperous year, where peace will be dominant in the region. That's what I'm saying. So I'm very optimistic about that. But answering back to your question, I said, yes, temporarily, I think things were moving fast. When the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia talked about the peace, that every day Saudi Arabia is getting closer to peace, having peace with Israel, and also bringing benefits to the Palestinians as well. This is something that we have to mention. The UAE was doing lots of work with Israel. And things now are on hold because of this war. But it's not, you know, Laura, let me tell you something. I believe the leaders of this region realize so well that it's inevitable to have a permanent peace in the Middle East with Israel being a player in the region. This is what the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia said, and this is what other leaders believe. And it's also a permanent policy by the UAE to minimize the conflicts, to minimize the tensions and making peace and neutralizing all the conflicts. So it's been posed just temporarily. Well, one Gulf state has been in the headlines more than others over the past few months. And that is Qatar. This war has exposed its close ties to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Has that raised concerns in the Gulf? Well, you know, Qatar now has, after Al-Ula agreement, Qatar agreed to many things to come along with its Gulf neighbors. And I believe many prominent analysts see that Qatar is or has a lot more to do with this. But I believe that the leadership of Qatar will come to a stage where they realize that there has to be a permanent peace in the Middle East, where Israel is part of it. And whatever the tensions that are going right now, I believe they will be solved very soon. I believe the leadership of Qatar really wants to have a stable Middle East, even though some things or some other things on the surface don't necessarily indicate so. But eventually because they agreed on Al-Ula agreement, and I believe that it's in their interest to support a stable Middle East. The UAE has taken a very different path and has really paved the way in terms of getting humanitarian relief to Gaza, the first country to set up a field, hospitals inside the Gaza Strip. Why has that been so important, do you think, to the leadership? Because the leadership wanted to send a very important message that it is true that the leadership of the UAE cares a lot about the peace in the region, making peace with Israel in 2020. It's a big believer in the Abraham Accords, but it will not, it did not, does not, and will not abandon the Palestinian people as people. This is a very important thing. The UAE criminalizes Muslim Brotherhood movement. The UAE criminalizes political Islam movements, but it would never criminalize the Palestinian people. And it would stand with the Palestinian people and with their suffering. And it would do whatever it can do to minimize this kind of suffering. This is why it established the field hospital. This is why it sent so many aides. The gallant night, Operation Gallant Night initiated by the President of the UAE, sent this important message. So it's very important to know, Laura, that the Palestinian people, the UAE cares for them. And we all do, and we all believe that the Palestinian people living in dignity is very important for any peace process that will move forward after the war in Shalom. Thank you very much indeed, Loay Al-Sharif. A happy and blessed new year to you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Loay. To all the I-24 staff. Thank you so much. Same to you. Well, as Israel responded to those attacks by Hamas, Egypt's proximity to Gaza meant that it was thrust into the conflict. Early on, Cairo rejected any attempt to allow Gaza refugees into the Sinai Peninsula, even temporarily. It facilitated aid transfers through the Rafah crossing and sought to mediate a hostage-release deal. Egypt and Israel have a peace treaty dating back to 1979. How's this war put that treaty under strain? Well, joining us now, Dalia Ziada, is an award-winning Egyptian writer and political analyst. Great to see you, Dalia. Thank you for joining us. And Egypt, first of all, is very much against any kind of resettlement of Gazans in Sinai, even temporarily. Why is Egypt so opposed to hosting Palestinian refugees on its territory? Thank you, Laura, and happy new year to everyone, to you and to everyone. It's always a pleasure to be with you. It's a good question. Actually, the policies adopted by the Egyptian state toward the war in Gaza and how to deal with the Palestinians, how to deal with the peace or the potential of peace in the middle of this war is characterized by confusion. There is a lot of confusion in the decisions made by the Egyptian state. Most of it is determined by domestic issues. One of the main highlights for this confusion is how Egypt is looking at the refugee crisis that is resulting from this war. Egypt, on one side, speaks all the time about the importance of ensuring that the Palestinian people are safe, ensuring that the Palestinian refugees will be treated properly, but at the same time, it refuses to open the borders for the Palestinian people to get into Sinai, to receive medical aid, or perhaps to stay temporarily until they go back. On one side, Egypt has, I would call it legitimate concerns, but I think they are somehow exaggerated, was exaggerated for domestic political reasons. Some of these legitimate concerns is the fears that Hamas militants may leak into Sinai with refugees who are trying to get into the country, or the Palestinian people, I mean, who are trying to get into the country. Another concern is the economic burden of hosting the Palestinians at this time while Egypt is suffering a severe economic crisis. But I think all of these are not reasons good enough for the Egyptian state to refuse to host the Palestinian people, at least temporarily, in Sinai. Because in 2014, for example, we have seen a similar situation when the Egyptian state opened the door for the Palestinians. They stayed for a while and received medical aid and so on. And when the war ended, they returned it back to Gaza. Well, quite. And I mean, in the midst of this conflict, President Assisi was returned to power in elections. He faced no real threat to his power. But is there a risk now in Egypt that Hamas' sister organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, could take advantage of the situation? Laura, unfortunately, what the massacres that Hamas committed on October 7th created a momentum for extremist Islamists all over the region. And it allowed them to go back to the surface again to leave the public opinion in Arab countries. In my country, Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has been launching attacks on everyone who spoke against Hamas, including myself. They are now influencing media. They are all over social media. They are bringing back to the front. The rhetoric of this Muslim versus Jewish war. And I think this will not hurt only Israel on the long term or even the medium term. It will also hurt the Arab state that has been fighting against this extremist Islamic rhetoric for a while, including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia. That's why it's important for these countries to realize that their exaggeration in bending to the public rhetoric that's going on right now against Israel is actually hurting them. It's not gaining them any political ground in their countries, but actually it is hurting them. And just briefly, Dalia, Israel and Egypt have had strong cooperation for years in terms of security. And will that cooperation stay intact, do you think? To be honest, there are a lot of bruises to the relationship between Egypt and Israel. I'm sorry to say that and to see that. But I think Egypt still has. The main reason why these bruises exist mainly is because post-countries acted in a way that was misunderstood by the other country. So I think, yes, it will influence the relationship for a while. But thank God it has not broken the bond of trust yet between Egypt and Israel. So it's important for the two countries to take the initiatives to fix that before it's too late. Don't wait until the war is over. Just work now on rebuilding this bond of trust by working on the Palestinian issue or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict together. Dalia, thank you very much indeed. And a very happy new year to you. Thank you. Thank you and happy new year to all of you. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Well, peace between Israel and the Palestinians seems more remote than ever. Many of those who were murdered in the Kibbutzim on October 7th were pro-peace activists who drove Gazans to Israeli hospitals. And a recent poll of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank shows the vast majority supported the October 7th attacks. Samea Sinijlawi is a fatah activist and the chairman of the Jerusalem Development Fund. He joins us now. Thank you very much for being with us, Samea. Good to see you. And it all seems pretty bleak at this stage, doesn't it? Do you have any hope for a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians in 2024? Well, definitely. Despite the fact that maybe this was the saddest year in our history. Sadness has been prevailing for the last three months. We have been seeing victims that have lost their lives on both sides. I have never imagined that this conflict will come to a level where our victims will have no names and no graves. So it's beyond the imagination what has happened on the 7th of October and later. But I think there is no other option but for both Israelis and Palestinians to live together and coexist and try to get out of this together. And I'm optimistic that maybe 2024 will be the year for security and peace for Israelis and Palestinians. This war has stopped a process, a huge diplomatic process that was supposed to enhance peace in the Middle East. It was supposed to bring the Saudis into the Abraham Accords and through this process also to push the Palestinian issue. And this was stopped by the war. And I'm confident that this war will stop through reactivating this process again. It is with the intention and the good will of the international community and regional neighbors. Maybe we will be able to stop the war and begin momentum again to the expanding the normalization and peace to include the Saudis, the Palestinians. And it's five, six birds that can be shot by one stone. If the Saudis are able to bring the Israelis and Palestinians and come together into a regional peace accord that will include everybody. Then there will be no way for Hezbollah or the Houthis or the Iranians to be interfering more and more in the stability of the region. So in one stone we can hit similar birds. Thank you, Samet. And I just want to ask you, in your mind, what will a post Hamas Gaza look like? Several Palestinian names have been talked about. Muhammad Dahlan is one of them. Do you have any preference for who could be a potential leader for the Palestinian people? Well, I'm sure it's going to be a collective leadership, partnership among names like Muhammad Dahlan, Nasr Qudwa, Marwan Balghouti. You know, the young generation of Fatih that has been waiting so long for a change in the leadership. A generation that is more pragmatic, that is more accountable, that is more transparent, that will try to be attached to the people, convincing to the Palestinian people and be positive in finding ways of cooperation with all the regional countries and working very hard with an Israeli partner to try to exit from this circle of violence. Both the Palestinians and Israelis desperately need to live in peace, security, human dignity rights. And I'm sure that responsible leadership, including a new leadership from the Palestinian side, and maybe we are expecting also change of leadership in Israel because Israelis are also not very much happy from their current leadership and would like to see more moderate leadership on the Israeli side. If this happens, then the star will align together and we will have the needed conditions for progress towards peace. I'm confident 2024, we will be able to get out of these feelings of anger, sadness, and be more towards tolerance, towards accepting the other side, working with the other side. We will achieve peace very soon, despite these sad days. Let's hope you're right, Samir. Let's hope we have a much more peaceful 2024. Happy New Year to you. Thank you very much, Samir Sinijlawi there. Well, on February 6, Turkey was struck by a devastating earthquake which killed more than 50,000 people. Israel was one of the first nations to respond with search and rescue teams. But in Israel's hour of need, Ankara chose not to return the favor. Turkey's President Erdogan instead lashed out at the Jewish state and said it was wrong to call Hamas terrorists by the end of the year. He said Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu was no different to Hitler. Well, joining me to talk about that, Haye Tan Yenoroczek is a Turkey expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Thank you for being with us, Haye Tan. Good to see you. Other than Iran, President Erdogan has been the fiercest critic of Israel, hasn't he, since October 7. This despite the fact that Turkey, of course, is a NATO and U.S. ally. Just explain the thinking behind Erdogan's position. Well, first of all, I would like to make a point here that you mentioned in the beginning of the broadcast regarding the earthquake. We witnessed such a huge, sharp U-turn. This is really unbelievable. Before the war, we also witnessed a bilateral summit between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Erdogan at the sidelines of the United Nations. And now, unfortunately, we have seen the end of the normalization that could usher a new era, a golden era between Israel and Turkey. And, of course, nowadays we have to deal and we have to cope with the circumstances, with the ramifications of this current fighting in the Gaza Strip. And as you mentioned, Mr. Erdogan adopted a very pro-Hamas, a very pro-Palestinian approach. And I believe that this is something related to his past. He is considered as an Islamist. We know him very well. He is considered as a Muslim Brotherhood ideology person. And, of course, this is making things much more complicated. He doesn't believe not anymore. I mean, he does not believe that Israel is a strong state in the Middle East. This is a very important paradigm change in the eyes of the Turks. And besides that, when I'm looking at these latest statements, I also see that there's also another alarming phenomenon, which is the banalization of the Holocaust. For instance, yesterday, the Turkish president openly criticized the Israeli premier, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he is similar to Adolf Hitler. I think this is, of course, from an Israeli point of view and from a Western point of view, of course, this is something really unacceptable. And we are seeing the same kind of behavior in the Turkish press. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, I happened to see a news coverage at the Milliet newspaper that they compared the Gaza Strip with Auschwitz and they keep comparing the Israeli soldiers with the Nazis. So this is very problematic. So we'll have to see if that relationship improves in 2024, won't we? Dr Cohen. I'm very skeptical, but let's hope. Dr Cohen, Jena Rotec, thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Time for a short break. When we come back, Israel is also at war on its northern front and with Yemen's Houthis, won that next. In a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well.