Pisces but um I'm picking up um that so just in case you get these cards that's done for you the uh fish there um so looking at these cards together I would say there is a new found emotion that's overflowing okay in your life around the beginning of the week you're going to be doing some work um you're going to be um working really hard to do with home or business um you are you know advancing very very well um and things are you know definitely on the way up and out okay for that um you then have the bubbly so sometimes keeping it light hearted and try not to be too um too down hearted about things uh keeping the energy light and fluffy um is definitely the way to go forward especially around this business uh plan okay the middle of the week the magician okay so sometimes we have to use all of our spiritual tools to get where we want to be so if you imagine that your spirit guides and your helpers and your loved ones are hanging in the background going come on ask us to help you we know we can do it we just need you to we need you to um to do this we need you to ask us you know because we can't just interfere so um they're saying that you know if you're not asking you're missing out on all of these tools um at your convenience here there's all these tools um the lovers card so this can be for some people a complicated love life situation something that needs mending or sorting out or it's the friendship for others or it's um family okay um and there seems to have been some arguments okay and there's still a few bickering energies also around um you um this is the middle of the week so um who's battling with who who's kind of drawing um enemies in what is going on is there somebody trying to um battle with are you trying to battle with your own mind with your own thoughts you know maybe it's not an outside battle maybe the battle is with you um is there complications in a relationship um close to you and sometimes we need to ask spirit um to make something happen okay to solve the matter okay so yeah now that's the middle of the week let me take a quick drink um nine of wands um nine of wands is that um frustration energy look we've got the bars here uh which means that this this is blocked so the line energy can be your strength so there's there be your strength is blocked it could be that you've worked so so hard to get where you are you've had to go through so many obstacles and so many disappointments and so many ups and downs and to get to the point that you're at and then to find one last obstacle it's like I don't think I've got the energy to get past that last obstacle well this one says you know yes there's an obstacle there uh but it doesn't mean that you can't let down that barrier so that you can let your strength and courage out um you're nearly there all you've got to do is one last push of energy okay and um all will be good uh we have a tear for energy sometimes we have to release our tears release our emotions um allow our emotions to flow okay at times and the five of swords five of swords it's about um after this incident or upset um let's put up some boundaries so next time this is not going to happen so this is you in the middle here and you're on a pentacle okay so to do with finances or protection here and we've got swords all the way around the outside so imagine this is your boundaries so you're setting some very important boundaries um in your life now so that nothing like this can happen again um and so you know you don't have to be emotional anymore you can be strong because you are um a strong person um the obstacles have been there to teach you that lesson of determination um that you aren't um yeah that you're not going to back down on this is this is um this is your life um so yeah there's a very very strong uh feel to your weak uh Capricorns um there was an I think it was Burgos as well um but this is the yes there's some changes to do with the home okay decorating cleaning cleansing of the home okay trying to keep light hearted but feeling overly emotional um um beginning the week the middle of the week you need to ask your guides to step in and help especially with emotional situation maybe ups and downs to do with friends or family um and uh is like that is going to build up unless something is calmed down or sorted out we then have the uh the battles am I battling in my own head or are there battles going on around here um setting up some boundaries so that this doesn't happen again okay setting up some boundaries um this is again it's like this is the last minute thing it's like I'm being held back my courage is being held back maybe somebody doesn't want you um to succeed and you've just found out that that's what they're doing um and this is uh shielding yourself um so Greg did a video recently um on the fact that we do know that we have been under attack we've been under attack for it just happens now and again but sometimes it's bigger than other times so we do have that and we do know it um at the moment we're doing a process of sending it back um but it's sending it back in a bigger way um so um sometimes we have to analyse is there somebody around me that is sending me negativity um has there been bad luck after bad luck after bad luck and if that is happening then you're needing to up your security around you uh bringing an extra team of spiritual helpers um and say hey guys I need you here because I need you to sort that energy out I need that energy gone away okay and um so allow them and they're sending energy to you a mirror up and what that does you can power up that mirror to be going back three-fold going back ten-fold going back a hundred-fold or more we've ramped it right up at the moment um so um if this has been happening which we know it has but if this is happening then we can uh be sure that there's going to be other people that are going to cop that back um so I feel as if there is something that you're going to be going through capricorns um that is similar to this um who is sending me that crap what is going on and if I'm feeling depressed a little bit depressed I'm feeling a lot depressed if I'm feeling a little bit angry I'm feeling a lot angry if I'm feeling a little bit upset I'm a lot upset um so it's like what they're doing is any negative emotion or negative feeling what they're doing is turning the dial up so they're using that technique on you and so make sure you put up those mirrors visualise yourself in the middle of a glitter ball um and all the mirrors all the way around facing outwards um and visualise that happiest moment of your life the fun the excitement the happiness um just let that fill your heart energy that's the biggest um and most powerful thing of protection that you can do is love love um and dimensional energy um so you know it doesn't hurt us to um set up some of those boundaries just because not because you feel as if somebody is sending stuff but you know there is the the darker side there spiralling downward um because they've been knocked off their pedestals um and there's a lot more people waking up now becoming aware um and the exposure is there they relied on being in the darkness and being in the background and nobody really knowing who they are. Well, the exposure is all coming out. And Dany said in the beginning of this message, this astrology video, she came on and said there's some big disclosure going to be happening with this guy, David, what's his name? David Grouch, G-R-U-S-C-H. And he's a whistleblower, military whistleblower talking about UFO craft and how many they've had.  So let's have a look at the emotional card linking to Capricorns. Okay. Confidence.  And deep down, deep down knowing, I deserve this. I deserve love. I deserve to be, to have unconditional love. I deserve to be able to give it, to receive it. I deserve abundance. I deserve to be on top of life and being fun and happy. So yeah, just keep thinking along those positive lines. Goodness will come. Let's go back to some of the comments. Okay. So ocean waves, I can't wait to get a reading. I can put you down for this. I'm offering a free reading, Ocean Waves to somebody, just whoever is happy to have a live reading. I'm going to put them down on a, on like a little raffle thing and I'll pick an email and I'll do a 30 minute reading. So if anybody is happy to do that, let me know. Okay, so let's go back. Okay. So rejection is God's protection. Yeah, so Nova Fox, I just got here, just in time for Virgo. I would love a 30 minute reading, not squeamish about it being live. I'm Laura Lopez. Okay, lovely lady. I'll put you down. Okay, so we're going to do, so that's Laura Lopez. If you're on YouTube, you might need to reach out to me on my website, okay?  Okay, how do I do that? So yeah, let me know. Okay, so yeah, Ocean Waves, I can put you down. It's entirely up to you. Okay, so Piper said, my moon Aries, great reading again, a lot I aligned with and a lot of disruption, grateful and learned, having a great catch with my lovely friends and making changes to suit my needs, going ahead. Good for you. Oh, there's some information on Ronald Reagan here. So Ronald Reagan was one of my first memories, my parents watching his speeches on TV. See, I knew it was for someone and there's another one here. So I just heard Leo King talking about Nancy Reagan consulting astrology for her husband, Ronald, cool. So he liked astrology, but he didn't study. So Julian was Capricorn Rising. So Greg said, I liked Ronald Reagan and I saw him in a documentary today. Perhaps you were picking up on that energy. I hope Ronnie was not Cabal, not sure. I don't feel as if he was. I feel as if, yeah, they tried to, but I don't think they could manipulate him, meant to land on your channel to receive the message I needed. Thank you. Oh, thank you, Piper, for coming onto my channel and thank you for subscribing. I really appreciate you. Thank you very much. Here's Bernadette. Hi, sending love, peace and light. Thank you, Bernadette. Psychic protection, but in a heartfelt way. Yes, yep, that's it. Allie, your golden nails are beautiful, aren't they sparkly? Sparkles. In the sunlight, they've got pink, like a fluorescent kind of, if it's got pink and gold, fluorescent in there. You can add me to the list for a live reading. Okay, Greg, perfect. I know we're friends on Facebook, I think. Greg, aren't we? Rara. If you're friends with Greg, that's good enough because then I know I can reach out and find you. Okay. I've heard he consulted astrologers. Good for him. Well, there's a lot of truth in it for sure. There is a lot of truth, definitely. So if you wanted to take me up on the offer of a free reading, please message me on Facebook, you know, Psychic Allie One to One or Alison Jane's Psychic Allie. So there's Psychic Allie One to One. I don't man as much as I should. I add stuff on it, I don't check the messages as much as I should. So that's probably better Psychic Allie, Alison Jane's to be on the safe side. You can message me, contact me on the website, which is psychicallie.net and the contact me button. If you wanted to join in with Psychic Development tomorrow, we're doing double timeline readings, which I do offer as well if you wanted one. So if you're actually trying to make a decision about should I choose that job or this job, what will my life be like? So what we do is we set up two timelines and we see what your life would have been like. Okay, if you choose that option or if you choose that option, and it gives you that timeline so you can clearly see. So that's what I'm teaching, but I do offer that as a reading as well. So if anybody does want a reading like that, please go to psychicallie.net. I've got some offers going. So these offers are coming up at the bottom here. You can go onto the website, psychicallie.net. A 30 minute reading, $10 off just for this week. Now only $30 was 40. Two hour in-depth reading, $20 off now $120. 75 minutes for the price of one hour for $80. Okay, so yeah, let me know if you want a reading. If you want a free reading, if that's a free reading and you don't mind it being public, it being live then please let me know and I'll add you to this list. That's who I've got for now. Okay, these people here who are happy for me to for me to do them a reading. So I'll be able to choose that in the next couple of days. Okay, so yeah, let's have a look, see what the other comments were here. So you're a gem, Ali, thank you. Oh, my pleasure. Again, I'm sorry I didn't do last week. I'm really sorry. Nancy Reagan has said to have saved her husband's life through her persistence with astrology. Wow, now that's interesting. Yeah, so, anyway, take care. We're gonna be back on, Greg and I, we'll be back on live on Tuesday and that will be 1 a.m. UK time and also back on 3 a.m. So we'll be doing Ali and Greg live at 1 a.m. UK and 3 a.m. we'll be back on doing global predictions. So if any predictions you want us to look into with the cards about life, about what's going on, okay? With politics or what's going on with celebrities or the money system or anything you like, you can ask those questions. Or I just got, yeah, just got me, got my foot in the sod. Or you can go to, God, he really did hurt my foot.  I love it. Love cats so much, but they think everything's a toy, don't they? So that's not nice. So, yeah, so that is 1 a.m. UK time, which is 8 p.m. Eastern, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1. Yeah, 8 p.m. Eastern, what is that? Is that 5 p.m. Pacific? 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1. Yeah, sorry, I have to work it out. 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern, 1 a.m. UK. So yeah, that's on Tuesdays. Every Tuesday we do that. And then we're also on the uncensored version of that. We start with YouTube at the same time. And yeah, at the same time. And then we also go over to Rumble as well at the same time. So same time frame on Tuesdays and on Thursdays. Okay, so yeah, there you go. Oh, lovely, lovely Elaine. Sarah, Nancy consulted a medium, not Ronnie, after he was shot. She was afraid they would try to hurt him again. He banned Bush from his inner circle. After he figured out he was working against him. Oh, so he definitely wasn't in the club then, was he? Was kind of an outsider. Thank you for the information. Thank you for sharing your light. Your gig always makes me smile. Well, that's good, Mary. Yes, it's probably, you think it's utter filthy.  So yeah, I can't help being a child coming out. Okay, I love you all. I'm gonna go and sit back and have a cup of coffee now. And I hope you enjoyed the readings. Let me know if I can help you in any way. Take care. Bye for now. I will see you on Tuesday.


To CFA firefighters out there, I also want to take this opportunity to thank you for your service over a busy 2013. I hope we all get an opportunity to celebrate with our friends and family over the Christmas New Year break. But for those of you who get called out, thank you. I do appreciate your commitment to protecting the communities at this time of year when the risk increases. We've driven home the significant safety risks associated with firefighting, which are not new to any of you. But I do want to recognise that there are four common risks to all of our firefighters and emergency service workers on the ground. Think about the safety of vehicles on the fire ground. Think about the dangers of falling trees. When you're on a bushfire ground, think about the ever-present risk of burn over. And finally, we operate in a hot and difficult and dangerous environment. So also think about the risk of dehydration, fatigue and heat stress. Make sure that when we're assigning firefighters to a particular task, they are fit and well-equipped to do so. And you've done that dynamic risk assessment before putting them in harm's way. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service over a busy 2013. Have a great Christmas and New Year break and hopefully everyone will come home safe at the end of the fire season. Thank you.


Welcome to NewsClick. Yesterday on the occasion of Independence Day, 73rd Independence Day, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made an in-principle, gave an in-principle approval to Chief of Defence Staff. Now, this is for the first time in two decades that this issue has been, first was mooted by the Kargil Review Committee and subsequently by other committees that was set up by the Government of India from time to time, including one led by the Minister of State for Defence Arun Singh, followed by a group of ministers, which was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, who was then the Deputy Prime Minister. And after that, there have been two other committees, one by Narendra Chandra Committee, which was submitted its report in December 2012, followed by D.B. Shet, left-in-general D.B. Shet-Katkar Committee, which gave its report in December 2016. All of them had been pushing for Chief of Defence Staff. Today, we have with us Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kaak to explain to us and to take us through the various stages through which this CDS concept has passed by and why it has taken so long for the Government to agree to it and some of the intricacies that are connected with it. Welcome to NewsClick, sir. Thank you. I am so delighted to be at NewsClick. So, let me start. Prime Minister made an in-principle announcement yesterday about setting up of a Chief of Defence Staff, where the modalities and other details have still to be worked out. How do you, as a former Air Vice Marshal of Indian Air Force, how do you look at it? I'd say in Persian, Deraist, Durustaist. It's been a long while, as you said in the introductory remarks. I'll take you back even longer. The proposal was mooted after the 1971 war that the concept of the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, which is a rotatory appointment between the three Chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force, must be replaced by a full-time Chief of Defence Staff. So, Manak Shah was so recommended. But as is said lightheartedly, two LALs put it down. One was KB LAL, the Defence Secretary. The other was Air Chief Marshal, PC LAL, one of the finest soldiers, sailors, airmen, this country has ever produced. So, we then have 1990, Arun Singh Committee report on higher defence and cost-cutting and everything else, which also made a recommendation to the effect that we should have a Chief of Defence Staff. Then there was a silence. I think the governments were not resonating enough to the proposal that were put forward. But it required the Kargil war. And the post-Kargil war, a committee formed under Mr. K. Subramaniam, Doreen of Defence and other elements of strategy, who recommended that identified the weaknesses and recommended that they should be Chief of Defence Staff. Now, what would the Chief of Defence Staff do? What would be the nature of this animal? Clearly, one more committee was formed and this was at the political level, led by then Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani. That group also deliberated on the Kargil Review Committee. And then the group of ministers said, now we have clarity. The group of ministers said that they will be a Chief of Defence Staff. He should be a single-point military advisor on behalf of the three Chiefs to the government. Two, he should administer the nuclear forces, which needed the strategic command. The strategic command hadn't been formed then. So, that time it was only a question of nuclear forces. And then recommended the formation or establishment of a strategic forces command, as also an Anaman-Nikovar command, which were joint commands. So, as you self explained thereafter, we had Shachakhtar Committee in 2016. Before that, that was a purely army-level committee, but before that we had a semi-political come executive committee under a very renowned civil service officer who accomplished so much in his long service, Mr. Nareesh Chandra. And he was given a large group of people, including former diplomats, academia, scientists, technologists, former Chiefs of the three services. So, it was a very well-balanced group of people who met under a statesman, like individual like Nareesh Chandra, had the pleasure to know him personally for decades. And they gave to the government a proposal for a Chief of Defence Staff in the way of the nomenclature was permanent chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. I think they went wrong there. They could as well name him Chief of Defence Staff. They said there should be a permanent Chief of, Chiefs of Staff Committee, a fourth Chief, who will be Prime Minister of Paris, which means he will, he will be same rank, rank would be same, level would be same. And what is more important that they propose that there should be three very, very new command setup, space command, cyber command, and special forces command. Now, the sad part is the Prime Minister has given an impression that this is a de novo, you know, it has not been attempted before. I explain this detail only to say it is not the Prime Minister's fault or this government fault. Governments over many, many years, and I started with 1990, Arun Singh Committee, we are talking about 29 years. So it has taken 29 years for us to, Prime Minister deserves kudos for having at least now announced. But all that he needed was to say this will be the CDS, the PAC.  Can I, can I interject yourself? Yeah. Now, the reason why the first government after transfer of power in 1947, they were keen on keeping civil in control over defense. As a result, it was the secretary defense who was given the task of the responsibility for preparing for India's defense, including obviously, therefore, the military preparations. Now, we are moving in a direction where the CDS, many of the roles, many of the responsibilities which today rest with the secretary defense would shift to the CDS, or there is speculation along those lines. That's not, that's not visualized because the conduct of business rules of the government of India are like the Bible for running India. Unless we amend those conduct of business rules, no game changing kind of, you know, transformations are permissible. That's the first one. The second point you made is very, very valid, Gautam, because there was fear in the minds of the political politicians. Jawaharlal Nehru was against the concept of a chief of defense staff. He was against the concept of giving military too much power and decision making. Right or wrong, history will judge him. But the most important was the fact that countries around us were then coming increasingly under army rule and therefore the sphere of the coup. But I think we've reached such a stage as a great power that we have come to this stage. India construct is a favorite construct world over and as to how diverse societies can function democratically be part of the global system. In fact, not just be what was earlier used as stabilizers, but leading powers to transform the global system to see that there is equity and balance and we don't have problems that occurred before. So to that extent, this is a right way to go. The question is, what will the chief of staff do? And that is, I think our viewers need to know this. What is the role for them? Number one is single point advice. I personally have doubts on single point advice because he's not going to be commanding any forces as visualized by all these committees which are enumerated and you also include it. He will be a single point advisor to the government on behalf of the three chiefs. I want to know why do you need a, I mean, if three chiefs can talk to the PM or the cabinet committee on security together, why do you need one person to act as an interlocutor? So I also have problems in a very complex, fragile, volatile world. Multiple inputs to policy are very, very crucial. Why do we have a cabinet committee of security? Why? That's the question linked to it. So I'm afraid I have, I'm not with the concept of single point advice. Well, one of the arguments is that this will bring in some very necessary cost efficiency, reduce duplication. For instance, we have 17 single service commands of which Army and Air Force have seven each and Navy has about three. And there are two joint commands. One is the Andaman Nekobar and the other is the strategic command. Now it's said that the single service command is something where there might be some, there is some scope for cutting down on duplication. That is one area. The other is also it is suggested that this will bring in a joint operational, joint command, joint doctrine, etc., etc., which is today lacking. How do you respond to that? I think let me first clarify. We need to differentiate between CDS and command. CDS is not a commander. He's a staff officer. He may have command of some forces like the strategic forces command. What other forces will come under him? For example, Andaman Nekobar command could come under him. Now, does he, he will only be a commander in chief when it comes through? I don't know the details of these joint forces. So essentially, he's, he's viewed as a joint forces advisor, come commander, come staff officer. The regular forces of the three services, the Army, Navy and Air Force, will be commanded by their respective chiefs. There is no change visualized in any of the committees, either for military operation or for administrative reasons. Military operation, not at all, because if you let me talk, I've spent 40 years in the Air Force, the Air Force today in the world, look at 30 years of conflicts, all driven by the Air Force, all done by the Air Force, some independently by the Air Force. Kosovo, for example, was an independent Air Force operation. Balakot, Balakot was an independent Air, it may have been a small operation. This is because these are fast, quick forces, which have penetration, which have speed, which have persistence and which have the capability to deliver political and strategic effect at the fastest time.  Sir, one of the arguments that is being advanced by many of the veterans, not necessarily from the Air Force, but from the Army and the Navy, is that quite apart from the reduction in the number of single service commands, which they themselves talked about, there is also this question that the Air Force was the most reluctant of the force to go in for this CDS. But now that the Air Force has been made to cede a lot of ground, for instance, to the Navy for their maritime reconnaissance or to the Indian Army, where helicopter gunships are concerned and several other areas. Do you think that Air Force reluctance, which was keeping in mind the significance and the role that Air Force has increasingly come to play in modern warfare, don't jive too well or you think that this has been overcome or it can be overcome? I know, I think the article that you're referring to is by a very close friend. Unfortunately, it's factually incorrect. Extremely close friend of mine. So I don't want, I'm not here going to defy or agree with him. What is seeding ground? I want to understand this concept. Are we in the battle for ground between the three services? If we are aiming to be working together, what does this expression do? Therefore, you seed ground to me and then therefore you're jointly with me. This is what the Air Force has always had reservations on. That's the first point. The second point, much more importantly, is the fact, the article also talks about Jawaharlal Nehru. I mean, this is a very favorite flavor of the season, bring in Jawaharlal Nehru. Your panchayat is not, your panchayat is not worth it, but you know Nehru, he's dead 55 years ago. Was this nation sleeping? And this is a strategic analyst who's talking about it. It had no relevance. Business of, yes, elements of the Air Force have been devolved to the army and the navy, like attack helicopters to a certain extent, usually helicopters to an extent. Likewise, with the navy, the reconnaissance is with the navy. So it is not seeding ground. It is a very careful consideration of the fact that some elements of air power can, but our resources in air power today are so limited in comparison to the challenges we face that this concept of theater command will never be acceptable to the Air Force. Our problem is, and this is not the writer in question, but the nation, the entire nation, they are so mixed up. CDS is something else and theater command is something else. What is CDS from other air? We said that we must have a CDS because advanced countries have. In advanced countries like the United States, they have theater commands because they have commitments globally. We can barely manage our own challenges, internal and external, which are close to our doors. We are not going to have operations in Fiji, and when do we have? We have produced the capability to do this. We sent Canberras to Congo in 1960, offensive combat aircraft in Fiji, in Congo. So that's the, that's the Nehru. And Nehru himself signed that document. Yes, we must send it to the systems of our friendly country in Africa. So I hope the viewers will get what I'm trying to say, Nehru versus the rest. Now, the point about theater command is a very, very long way off. Let's get the CDS. As soon as the CDS is concerned, I would like to inform the viewers that the Nareesh Chandra Kaviti report was unanimously agreed by all three chiefs. So the Air Force has no reservations. What is sought to be done neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor recent announcements by the government are talking about theater command. These are elements within the armed forces who are finding themselves out on a block in terms of what they can do because the war has become air war. This reconciliation process is a tough one. So it is like when the nuclear forces came in, the conventional armies said what will we do now? And if you remember, there was a book named Absolute Weapon. They published immediately after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And you know what he said, the writer said that until now, the role of the armed forces was to win wars. Now onwards, their role will be to prevent wars. So when I speak to my young officer here, I have gone to fight a war. And we know that there are people who came into the armed forces, retired from the armed forces without fighting a war, 30 years of self. Don't forget the last war was in 71. We are talking about nearly 48 years, nearly 48 years of Karakil was not a war. But we can't include Barakot as a war or for that matter the surgical strike. When you talk about war fighting today, yes, you rightly said Gautam. It's a very complex techno operational guide of a management of force. But application of force today has undergone huge psychological and emotional changes. One is destructibility of the weapons that we use. They can play havoc. You know, one petroleum refinery, which is perhaps one fourth of the entire production of India can be knocked out by four precision guided weapons. So that's why it's more prevention than actual offensive. Secondly, society's appetite for war also gets to reduce. We may be as a society still muscular and hard, but you see Europe in society and US. Why is Trump insistent on getting his troops from Afghanistan? Why is he becoming more and more internal? Because the people do not want American forces to go out. We will come to that stage one day. So I think other than the Jumlas, which India is very famous for, we need to very carefully reflect, analyze what are our challenges? What are the requirements which will necessitate our using force for a certain purpose? And what would that political strategic purpose be in relation to time lines in relation to resources employed? The third is what is the nature of that war? To me it will be a high intense war for a limited period and therefore in the genre of limited wars, 71 war. War was the last conventional war we'll fight. So to that extent, CDS is important, the point you have raised. He will be able to prioritize budgeting if that charter is given to him, but it is all within the armed forces. The civil servants and the politicians will be very astute not to give away any power of theirs to the armed forces. So you know these guys are not, the typical attitude is these guys are not getting along with each other. Okay, let's have a CDS. He will sort out these fights. But don't forget the CDS for giving that single point advice has to confirm before he gives his advice that this is in consultation with his other. All three colleagues of his. So you know it's a very complex game. Now each and the other chiefs will have within the system full authority to tell the CDS who may be their boss that I have a different view I need to be heard at a higher level than yours. So you're back again to this. So I don't think that we're talking about a panacea. It's a good, I recommend yes. We have been talking about it. So let's see how it works. As far as the theater command is concerned as an airman as somebody who took part in 65 and 71 war and I know what combat operations are all about. I did bombing in both the western and the eastern sector in that war. It's you know when you talk about air power you will never have adequate air power to meet the requirements of the theater commands that you will create for that purpose. Whether they have three or four as you said 17 commands actually right. But what is I mean what are we talking about tables and chairs and rooms and offices command structure is what the same people will get redeployed somewhere else. But the question is the person who knows best to employ the army is the army chief. A chief cannot tell him how to run his army. The naval chief cannot tell the army chief and the FFO chief how to run their services. Likewise the two cannot tell the naval chief how to sail at sea. These are and this article talks about the very insular and working in silos. They have to work in silos. They are specialists. What is the common link between a Sukhoi 30 pilot and a Javan? They have to be insular because Javan has a job. Sukhoi 30 pilot is a job. So we have to recognize to sum it up in two lines. We have to recognize the services have to fight wars in the specialized genre of their capabilities. It is for the fourth person who is ostensibly desidious to have the experience to be able to say which element will fight which war and therefore prepare that joint plan and have it approved at the political level. That is the first point. The second point is theater commands for India are a long way off. We have waited 29 years and more to get the CDS through. Let us wait another 10 years after the CDS has worked on the ground and look at that. Third is the question that is raised more speculatively. Now the CDS will do budgeting. He will distribute this. This is purely the prerogative of the civil service. Civil service allocation of funds will be that of where that funds will be done in terms of whether it will be aircraft or ships or cyber or space. There may be a discussion within the chiefs of staff committee that will still operate and the chief of defense staff who will be heading that headquarters which exists incidentally. There is a chairman chiefs of staff committee under whom you have the advisor to the chairman chiefs of staff committee who is a three star. All that will happen is he will now be a four star and he will be independent, prime center Paris. Although the media speculation is that he will be senior to these people. Who will the chiefs be? It's received enough attention in the media. I don't want to comment on it that it's been postponed to never that the committee has been given time till November ensures that one chief goes away. Then there's only one chief left and you promote him. He's a senior most of the other three. The chief having gone away. Then we have you know it's Hollywood and everything else. Thank you. Thank you, sir. This is all for today from NewsClick. But we'd like to have you with us again and again to take us through many of these issues that keep on cropping up. But thank you once again for today. If you have any comment, any feedback, do get back to us. Keep watching NewsClick and thank you for today.


Giants Cowboys big game for the Giants. Oh, yeah, absolutely because same as the Jets Do you really want to lose the division? Well game and now you're 0 and 2 right 90% of teams that start 0 and 2 do not make the plus and again It just it brings in that whole narrative of how much different you are than when last year You went 3 and 13 last year you make all these changes and now you're sitting on to and I don't know if the Cowboys are really that good You know scored eight points against Carolina Carolina's good team that was in Carolina But they've got problems on their offensive line The the Giants have won in Dallas before in these types of situations So do you really want to start after going 3 and 13 0 and 2? Yeah, we'll see what the Redskins do Eagles already have a win So you would be looking at going into week 3 all of your divisional opponents will have already won a game So you're behind everybody. All right, you're too you're two games into the season The Eagles already you're already at least one game behind everybody in your division The Eagles will be one and one, but we'll get to that later It's a big it's a big week for them though, and there's no reason to think that this isn't a winnable game I'm sorry. I think we'll turn out that was this season plays out Dallas is not a very good team So this maybe you never know Don this may be a game that when you look back on the schedule It goes we had to get that one. You have to get the Cowboys games. We don't know what that team is I think you also fall into here. We go again. I really think you Fall into that Two straight losses. You played okay in the first game. Your offensive line wasn't great But you lost by five to a team that was within a half of going to the zoo ball now Dallas at three and a half point favor So you get the three for being at home They think that these two teams are fairly even and the Jets are three and a half over the Dolphins And you saw that number move because as RJ said before that game was played It's probably a pick-up game now. Everybody's excited about the Jets Jets are in a tough spot to here Again, not like the Giants because they would be one and one if they lost the game But everything you feel about this team would be you'd be going back to zero again a divisional loss at home It would it would take away from what you accomplished against Detroit because what it really comes down to because I think the Jets and the Giants are in a Similar situation where they could be wild car teams, but you need things to go your way you what the Jets did they impressed everybody They got everybody excited, but fundamentally it was a non-conference victory your divisional games your home games They're very important. You don't want to leave a home game against the dolphins With with a check on the right column that kind of takes away really everything you accomplished in week one


Red flag is it's literally the world's premier air-to-air combat training exercise Here at Nellis Air Force Base we have some amazing threat simulators both on the air side and on the ground side that really Puts them in those situations where they really feel like they're fighting that near-period adversary that they may encounter in future conflict So as an aggressor pilot our job is to provide the most realistic relevant Threat training aid that we can to our coalition active duty and reserve partners so by Getting smart on the threat knowing what the capabilities are and Kind of being that thinking adversary. Here's what we think they may do And then taking that knowledge and then going to provide it in an airborne forum To give something for our our blue forces to react to to mission plan against to go out and execute and see if their Tactics techniques and procedures are getting the job done That's that's what we're about so the three primary objectives of red flag our integrated leadership confidence under fire and Warfighter culture bringing those three things together really solidifies the training audience and Instills in them what it would feel like to actually be in a combat scenario So the goal of red flag overall is to give those young pilots And aviators their experience in their first ten Simulated combat sorties so that way when they go to their first combat sortie they feel like they were prepared In this environment a safe environment, but also a very high stress environment to simulate What would feel like an actual combat So the reserves bring a huge amount of Continuity credibility and experience to the red flag organization Whereas active duty personnel, they're great, but you know that active duty cycle changes over Every two to three years so with the reserves being here as a permanent kind of staff We really augment that active duty force and support them and make sure that exercise Continuity is brought forward exercise to exercise It's exciting to see our folks who are here for the long haul many of which Left active duty here at Nelson's and shows to stay To continue to be a part of something better than themselves continuing day after day Year after year to do what they're doing because they love it and they love what it does for our country And what it does for the fight and the capabilities that they bring and to see them do that and do that well to the point that We're where our folks are winning accolades within their active duty squadrons They're getting recognized for the awesome work that they're doing and they just choose to do it because they love it It's super fun to see it's fun to watch Folks come in and go man. I I didn't realize you were a Reservist, but when we've got folks that are embedded through this water It's they're both in a part-time and a full-time role They're there day in day out to see that there's really not that big of a difference between our active duty and reserve partners It's cool to see


I know you don't understand a word I'm saying, it all flies over your head, you're tuning into my videos because of the sound of my voice, as your eyelids droop heavier and heavier and you descend mercifully into the arms of morpheus hypnotized by my vocality. Okay, sleeping beauties, today we're going to discuss the following question. Why does the narcissist think that you should read his mind, anticipate his wishes, foretell his needs and preemptively cater to them? Why is that? Narcissists are divorced from reality, mind you. They have an impaired reality testing and they reside firmly habituated to a fantasy. Narcissism is a fantasy defense written writ large, but fantasy is not the same as psychosis and to assume that you should possess telepathic capabilities and the ability to read the narcissist mind that is strange and today I'm going to explain to you what goes on in that dark place, in that penumbral cave known as the narcissist mind and why does he firmly believe that you should definitely read it with eloquence and with skill? My name is Sam Vaknin, I'm the author of Malignant Surflav, Narcissism Revisited and former visiting professor of psychology and currently a long-term member of the faculty of SEAPS. We're not going into detail. Now before we proceed, there is a channel with my videos translated into Portuguese, which is spoken in Portugal and in Brazil. So those of you who want to watch my videos with subtitles in Portuguese, the link to the channel is in the description. Now description is a relatively simple word, which some of you may understand, it's the area under the video, not above the video, not to the left of the video and not shockingly to the right of the video, but just under the video. Got it? Svanpanim. Okay, back to the narcissist. The narcissist believes that you should read his mind. He believes that you should make every effort and strive to tune in and resonate with his thoughts, with his negative affectivity, with his negative emotions and with his moods. He regards both of you as a kind of duet or stitch on TikTok. And so you should be there, not only externally, but you should maintain an internal presence in his mind, kind of observer who is attuned to the vicissitudes, the ups and downs and the tinting abulations of his finely tuned kind of brain. Why is the narcissist so emotionally invested in this? Narcissists get really, really angry when you cannot second guess the thoughts, the wishes, their dreams, their hopes, their needs.  They become aggressive and they punish you or seek to punish you for such misbehavior. Why? Why this catechis? Why this emotional investment in the idea of telepathy? And today I'm going to try to explain to you why. Number one, mind reading is a test of maternal symbiosis and unconditional love. I recommend that you watch the videos in my shared fantasy playlist on this channel.  The narcissist interacts with you in his interpersonal relationships as a mother. And so a mother should love and should accept unconditionally. A mother should idealize the baby and the narcissist is about two years old, mentally speaking. So he expects to be idealized. He expects to be cherished, to be coddled, to be accepted, to be embraced and to be loved unconditionally. But because he is constitutionally unable to separate from the mother figure, remember his original separation individuation at chronological age 18 to 36 months, that phase was disrupted usually by the maternal figure. So the mother, the original mother, the biological mother of the narcissist did not allow him to separate from her and to become an individual. They remained the original mother and the narcissist remained in a symbiosis. They remained enmeshed, fused and merged. Now this is on the emotional level and the psychological level. The narcissist tries to recreate this with his intimate partners who are stand-in mothers.  So the narcissist tries to create a symbiosis with her and expects her to respond in kind. Now in a symbiosis, the intimate partner should be able to read, literally read or scan the non-verbalized, unspoken content of the narcissist mind. If you are one and the same, if you are a single organism with two heads, then you should have equal access to the same mind. The narcissist mind, of course, you don't have a mind. If a narcissist wants you to have a mind, he will give it to you. So this is point number one. The symbiosis makes it logical, makes it sensical, makes it reasonable for the narcissist to expect you to access a single mind, your hive mind, the common mind, the colony mind, if you wish. Then once you have accessed your mind, the narcissist expects you to love him and accept him as he is unconditionally. He is testing you. Will you be deterred when you have accessed the narcissist mind, when you have found there all the darkness and all the shadow and all the complexes and all the hurt and all the shame and all the fear and all the nastiness and all the obnoxiousness and all the lack of empathy, when you have accessed the narcissist mind and when you have toured this horror land, this Disneyland of decay and decadence and disintegration, when you have seen the narcissist true face by melding with his mind, will you then reject him? Will you abandon him? Will you walk away having come to learn exactly who he is? It's a fear. The narcissist is terrified of this. So it's a test. Narcissist wants you to read his mind and then once you have read his mind, he wants you to accept him as he is unconditionally, words, shortcomings, failings and all. Remember that deep inside the narcissist harbors, maintains an all-pervasive, debilitating, inferiority complex wrapped around the core of life-threatening shame. He lets you in by choosing you as an intimate partner and converting you into a maternal figure. The narcissist is giving you the keys to the kingdom but then he expects you to unlock the doors and walk in and survey, survey the landscape, get acquainted with his inner dynamics and the moving parts of his non-self. He expects you to face the void and the emptiness and the absence and still love him, but he is incapable of verbalizing. He's too terrified and he's too defensive.  So he needs you to do all this by yourself. He needs you to read his mind without his help and without the assistance of language and words and then he needs you to love him as he is unconditionally. If you do succeed to read his mind, to guess his wishes, to anticipate his needs means you love him and it means that you love him as a mother. Additionally, this mind melt, this co-joining of minds, this merger and fusion on certain levels because the narcissist symbiosis with you is not the same as the co-dependence merger and fusion. This is a totally, totally different phenomena. I may dedicate a video to the differences, but it's still a form of co-joining, still a joint venture, still a collaboration which involves a merger and acquisition to borrow from the world of finance. And so this joining the hip is proof of a grandiose and anxiolytic mind, mind, mind melt. The narcissist says, I have appropriated her, his intimate partner. And of course, when I say he, it's a she, when I say her, it's a his, the gender pronouns are interchangeable. I'm using the male gender pronouns because this is good literary practice for no other reason, about half of all narcissists are women.  All this, this is proof of the narcissist's omnipotence. It enhances and mattresses the sense that he is all powerful and this reduces his anxiety. I am the world says the narcissist. And so let's summarize the first part. The first part is the narcissist expects you to read his mind because you are his mother and because he wants to merge with you symbiotically, he wants to create a symbiosis with you because you are his mother. And that's what babies do. They have a symbiosis with a mother. And then he expects you to enter his mind, visit all the nooks and crannies and corners, get acquainted with everything that's there, all the contents, and he expects you to do it on your own. He will not help you, he will not verbalize, he will not speak, he will not signal, he will not connote, he will not do anything to assist you.  You're the adult in the room. And so you take over his mind, you visit and revisit every aspect and dimension and wall and connecting corridor. And then despite what you have seen there, despite what you have seen there, the horror of the narcissist's absence, you would still love him unconditionally. It's a test. Mind reading is a test. Second function, by forcing you to merge your mind with his mind, the narcissist feels grandiose, omnipotent, and it reduces his anxiety.  What proof does he have? Mind reading. If you are capable of reading his mind, it means your mind is his. He took over. He appropriated. He made you his property. He made you his, his extension. And then of course, caters to his self-image as Godlike and grandiose. The narcissist doesn't regard this expectation of mind reading as unreasonable, irrational, illogical, or frankly, a bit nutty. It doesn't regard it this way. This is not telepathy. Many narcissists are scientists. They are rational and they know that at this stage at least telepathy has not been proven. So it's not telepathy. They're not superstitious. They're not prejudicial. They're not uneducated. They're not primitive. They don't regard it as telepathy. They regard it as internal object communication. Remember, you don't exist outside the narcissist. The narcissist is incapable of perceiving and interacting with external objects.  He converts all external objects to internal objects. He creates introjects, voices, and representations, sometimes visual representations that stand in that represent external outside objects. And so once he has created a representation of you in his mind, he continues to interact with that representation, not with you.  They're not external. And so these internal objects are able to communicate, to converse, to dialogue, to intercourse in the verbal sense at least. In short, the internal objects share a communication space with access to common databases of information. So mind reading in the narcissist, as far as the narcissist is concerned, mind reading is just when two internal objects talk. So for example, when his false self communicates with your representation in his mind, when his false self talks to the internal object in his mind that represents you, this is mind reading. This is the telepathy he's expecting, not calling it telepathy. The narcissist internalizes and introjects the world and then identifies with the world and incorporates it. As far as the narcissist is concerned, there is no world except in his mind. Narcissist in this sense is a philosophical solipsist.  And so when you talk to other parts of his mind, this is internal communication, not external communication. He expects your avatar in his mind. He expects the internal object that represents you to be able to fully decipher and read and decode what other parts in his mind are doing and thinking and emoting. And so the partner is an extension of the narcissist. And being an extension of the narcissist without any independent autonomous or agentic existence, the partner should be able to communicate with other parts of the narcissist, including his mind. The partner should be able to read the narcissist's mind because the partner is the narcissist's mind. And this is of course the principle of hyperreflexivity in psychotic disorders. The inability to tell the difference between internal objects and external objects. Narcissism is a mirror image of psychosis. In psychosis, the psychotic confuses internal objects with external ones. He believes that his internal objects are actually external. While the narcissist is exactly the opposite, he believes that external objects are actually internal and therefore should be able to read his mind because they are inside his mind and they are a they are parts of his mind. And so a failure to read the narcissist's mind provokes in him frustration. He's frustrated because he can't make sense of it. Why can't you read his mind?  You don't have a separate existence. So why can't you do this very simple trick, this very basic function of reading other parts of his mind? And that frustrates him a lot and he becomes aggressive.  But it also provokes anxiety. Your inability to read his mind provokes anxiety because it challenges the maternal object. A good mother or a good enough mother should be able to tell, to predict, to foresee her baby's needs and wishes and thoughts and emotions. And if she fares in that, she's a bad mother. She's an abandoning mother. She's a neglectful and rejecting mother.  It challenges his worldview, your role in his life and in any in his mind. It unsettles him. He's terrified exactly as a baby would be terrified when mommy leaves the room. We'll discuss it soon in a few minutes. So there is an issue here. Your inability to read the narcissist's mind, predict his wishes cater to his needs in advance. These are not mere dysfunctions that the narcissist can gloss over and move on. He can't move on because it reveals to him your true face. Are you a fake? Are you just pretending to love him? Are you after his money? Are you a gold digger? He becomes paranoid. There's persecretary agation and you become a persecretary object.  And mothers do this with babies and then you would have been able to establish for him an environment that keeps him happy. Failure at mind reading implies that you, the external object, you possess content that is not identical to the content of the narcissist's mind. Your failure to read his mind provokes him to notice that you're separate. Your inability to gauge and to predict his emotions and his cognitions. These are proof positive that you are not inside his mind but you are outside his mind. It triggers him because it reminds him, number one, that you are an external, separate, agentic, autonomic, independent object. And number two, that something is wrong with him. Something is wrong with him. When you fail to read the narcissist's mind you're actually broadcasting to him two messages. Number one, I'm not you.  I'm separate from you.  These messages are terrifying and they provoke in the narcissist separation in security, abandonment anxiety, going to a lack of object constancy or object permanence. In short, the narcissist thinks, believes that your separateness portends, is the precursor and the antecedent of abandonment, rejection. He extrapolates your behavior and he says, she refuses to read my mind, or she can't read my mind.  It's a rip lay, a reenactment, but not the way the narcissist wanted it.  It's a life-threatening failure. A failure at mind reading implies that the external object, you, is unique, is not a clone of the narcissist, is not an extension of the narcissist, is not a part of the narcissist mind inseparable or otherwise. And so if you're unique, if you're separate, it means that you cannot be exchanged, you cannot be substituted for. The narcissist cannot replace you, you're not interchangeable, you're not fungible. As a mere figment in the narcissist mind, as a mere internal object, you're easily replaceable, deactivated, changeable, fungible. That's why narcissists switch so fast between so-called intimate partners, I call them insignificant others, because one internal object is as good as another internal object. There you can't tell them apart. The idealization process, the photoshopping, produces identical copies, replicas of the original mother of a maternal figure. But if you remind the narcissists that you are separate, that you are unique, that you have your own existence and independence and agency and autonomy, that you're not him and that you're not inside his mind, if you do remind him of all these things by not being able to read his mind or not being willing to try to read his mind, you're threatening him. You're threatening him because what you're really, what you're telling him is, I'm an external object and you will never find an external object that is me, that is exactly like me. So this threatens the narcissist.  And that means the narcissist will remain stuck in the separation, individuation phase. He will never complete it. He will never become an individual. He will never separate from the mother figure. And of course, he will never become an adult or anything else. And this is terrifying. Now, the last observation is a bit complex. And I ask you to bear with me, those of you who are still awake, probably two or three of you, judging by past experience, the failure to read the narcissist mind is also a failure of the extensionality and intentionality of the external objects and the narcissist extrojects. Extrojects. Okay, I know, I know. Cool it. Cool it. Wash your face. Get a drink of water. Relax. Breathe in. Breathe out. Meditate a bit. It's been a mouthful and a very threatening one, but I'm going to help you. I'm going to help you because I'm a nice, empathic, and kind guy, a mahealer, a fixer, a rescuer, and a savior. And I learned it from the best. Okay, so what I just said is the following. If you refuse to read the narcissist mind, there is a problem that has to do with something known as extensionality and intentionality. Every object in the world has a definition. For example, if I ask you what is a bachelor, a bachelor is an unmarried man. That's a definition of a bachelor, and that is the intentionality of the bachelor. So the intentionality of a bachelor is the definition of a bachelor. Extensionality is a list of all the bachelors in the world. So when I say the word bachelor, it is an intentional with S dimension, which is the definition of the word, and also a set, a group of all the instances of the world, of all the bachelors in the world. Because every object in the world has this, whether external or internal, the narcissist attaches to you as an intimate partner, as a friend, as a colleague, it's never mind. Any person who is in an interpersonal relationship with the narcissist is being snapshot and converted into an internal object, period. Shared fantasy is the only way narcissists interact with other people, mainly in intimate relationships, but not only. So when the narcissist converts you into an internal object, he attaches to you an intentional with an S dimension and an extensional dimension. He defines you. He says, this is Marge, and Marge is my mother, my maternal figure. Marge is the intimate partner, is you. So this is Marge, my intimate partner, and she is my mother. She is my maternal figure. And this is what a maternal figure does. A maternal figure knows to guess or second guess her baby's needs and wishes and thoughts and emotions. She knows, a maternal figure knows how to read minds. And a maternal figure loves and accepts unconditionally. So this is the intentional dimension of the internal object. And there is an extensional dimension of the internal object. And in this case, it's very interesting because the narcissist chooses an extensional dimension which is known as null set. Remember what is extentionality? Extentionality is a list of all the instances of the object. So if I say bachelor, it's a list of all the bachelors in the world. When the narcissist attaches to you an extensional dimension, he says, there is nobody there. There is no external object. We call this a null set. I'll read to you the definition of a null set. In mathematical sets, a null set is a set that does not contain any values or elements. So what the narcissist says, he comes across you and he says, wow, that could be my intimate partner. I'm going to convert her into an internal object. And then I'm going to Photoshop this object and so on and so forth. And now I need to define this object. Every object has two types of definitions, intentional and extensional. So the narcissist defines your intentionality as a mother figure, loving, accepting, mind-reading and so on. And but your extentionality, he defines as there is no external object. This is his way of eliminating who is an external object and recreating in his mind an internal object that is not you, just represents you. So he then continues to interact with the internal object because you have no extentionality in his mind. You don't exist.  This is very difficult to understand. I realize that. But think of it in simple terms. Think of it this way. The narcissist comes across an intimate partner, potential intimate partner, potential source of supply, creates immediately a representation of that person in his mind and then says, if it's an intimate partner, he says that's a mother figure and these are her characteristics. But having created the internal object, the narcissist firmly believes that you don't exist out there only in here. And this is null set extentionality. Null, you're zero. You don't exist.  When you fail to read the narcissist's mind, you prove to him that you are not a maternal figure because mothers read the minds of their babies. And if they don't, they're not mothers.  According to the narcissist, you don't exist as an external object. Your extentionality is a null set. But when you fail to read the narcissist's mind, predict his emotions and cognitions and needs and wishes and so on, when you fail to do this, you prove to the narcissist that you are separate from him, that you are not inside his mind, that you are not a part of his mind. And in this sense, you challenge the null set extentionality of you. You're telling the narcissist you're wrong. I do exist. I am an external object. I am not a zero. I am not a null set. I'm a set with one member. That one member is me externally to you, not dependent on you. My existence is independent on you. And this of course shatters. Shatters the narcissist's view of you and the narcissist's view of the world, not only of you. According to the narcissist, you and him, you are what we call a co-extensive object.  You're one. The external object and the narcissist are one. And so this, your inability to read his mind proves to him that you're not one. You are two. The narcissist specifies the internal content that he attributes to you, the external object. Now this internal content that he attributes to you, these are all his projections. He tries to create a clone of his mind as an internal object and to say this is you. So he takes his need to be loved, his need to be accepted, his wish for a mother, his compulsion to separate an individual. He takes all these things and he puts them inside the internal object and then he says to you, you don't exist out there. You're not an external object. You are this internal object. But this internal object is a copy of the narcissist's mind. It's a replica. It's a clone of the narcissist's mind. And he attributes it to you, the external object. He attributes it to you and he says, from this moment on, you're not external.  And how many instances of you are there outside the narcissist's mind? Zero. He tells you that there is a null set of all possible instances of you as an external object. He tells you that you are one with him. And because you're one with him, you don't have a separate existence. So how many instances of you are there? Zero. Null. And this is why I keep saying that narcissistic abuse is a unique form of abuse, unprecedented, because the narcissist absolutely needs to eliminate you as an external object. If he fails to eliminate you as an external object, you will never be his mother. If he fails to eliminate you as an external object, you will abandon him. If he fails to eliminate you as an external object, you will never read his mind. He needs to eliminate you out there in reality and recreate you in here inside his mind as a copy of himself.  And your extentionality with an S is a null set. You don't exist out there. There are no instances of you.  You do exist. You are out there. There is at least one instance of you and it has nothing to do with the narcissist's mind. And because you can't be one with the narcissist, you can't be his mother. This challenges and destroys everything the narcissist believes, the way he interacts with reality, his reality testing, it drives him to the point of psychosis.  And he needs then, if this failure continues, he then converts you into an enemy. You're doing this on purpose. You're doing this on purpose. You could, you know me better. You know me by now. You should have read my mind. You should have anticipated my wishes. You should have catered to my needs well in advance. I don't need to speak. I don't need to verbalize. I don't need to talk to you because you are part of me.  You're my enemy. And then devaluation and discard. So this is all intimately connected to the narcissistic compulsion, repetition compulsion, to replay or reenact the separation individuation. Everything with the narcissist is very deep. Self-stand experts online describe superficially the behaviors. They confuse psychopathic and narcissistic behavior.  But sometimes they hit gulp and they describe the narcissistic behavior. But narcissistic behaviors are deep-rooted and that's not me. That's Zygmunt Freud and Jung and all the greats, all the greats of psychology, Winnicott, you name it. Narcissistic behaviors are deep-rooted. What you see is the tip of a glacier, tip of an iceberg. And what you see is not what you get and you often get it wrong. And so what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to take you by the hand and guide you through this hideous, through this infernal, the hell, hellscape of the narcissist's mind. And to explain to you that everything is interconnected and that the narcissist is disproportional and sometimes irrational reactions are actually very rational. And as far as the narcissist is concerned, always proportion. This is why it's literally impossible to heal or cure the narcissist or convert him into some kind of reasonableness to conduct any meaningful communication with him or to cause him to learn and to transform. Because everything is connected to everything. It's like Indra's net. When you pick up one bead, you pick up the whole net. It's a problem because you can't isolate. There are no isolates. You can't isolate a specific trait, a specific behavior, a specific psychodynamic as you can do, for example, in borderline personality disorder, even in psychopathy. You can't do this in narcissism. And so it's mind-boggling to try to work with the narcissist in clinical settings for example. And perhaps artificial intelligence will do a better job one day, backed by supercomputers or quantum computers, I don't know. But the regular human mind, even if it's extremely endowed and gifted, hint, hint, still boggles, still gets frozen, still stalls when it is faced with the hypercomplexity of the narcissist's internal world. How could an absence give birth to such a twisted, thwarted universe is beyond me? But then you know what it says in Genesis. At the beginning, there was nothing. There was chaos. And out of it came creation. So this is the narcissist. A nothingness, a chaotic nothingness that produces something that can only be described as ultimate, impenetrable darkness.


The most desolate and remote spot on the face of the earth, Antarctica. An ice desert of unspeakable cold. Gale winds that literally take your breath away. This is the big white continent at the bottom of the world, nearly twice the size of the United States. In spite of the ice and intense cold, the Antarctic qualifies as a desert.  It remains aloof and dangerous, yet compellingly beautiful in its primitive splendor, a desert without sand. In Abbott, I'm assigned as Commander U.S. Naval Support Force Antarctica. It's been estimated that in all of history, no more than about 25,000 people have ever had the opportunity actually to visit the Antarctic. Another way of saying this same statistic is that of all the people in the world today, no more than about one out of every million have actually visited the Antarctic. This film has been put together for that great majority of you who have not had the opportunity to visit the Antarctic. If in the process we are able to get across to you a small fraction of the beauty and the loneliness and the harsh environment of the Antarctic, the effort will have been most worthwhile. Now the place where people do begin their visit in the Antarctic is McMurdo Station. This is the United States main station on the continent. Today, this land of eternal ice is inhabited by a special breed, Navy men of Task Force 43, and the civilian scientists who are unlocking its long-kept secrets. Task Force 43, in bare naval statistics, 3,000 men, 10 airplanes, 10 ships, 6 helicopters, and 10 stations scattered literally all around the world. A Task Force contributing to international cooperation to a series of far-sighted scientific investigations, one which challenges the spirit of its men. It's especially appropriate that this relatively new American outpost should be powered by nuclear energy. This atomic reactor provides electricity to heat and light the base, vastly reducing the need for bulky oil stoves and their accompanying hazard of fire. A distillation unit, powered also by nuclear energy, produces enough fresh water to handle the needs of this small city. The primitive chore of hauling snow to the melters for water conversion is now seldom required at McMurdo. With the nearest hospital 2,300 miles away in New Zealand, the new McMurdo dispensary is literally indispensable. Like in any small town back home, there is a church, a store, a library, and best of all, morale builders, a post office. Task on Earth requires continuous high morale. It's any job undertaken in the Antarctic. The daily difficulties and frustrations of working in a sub-zero, blast-ridden atmosphere are occupational hazards of this hostile land. The well-equipped McMurdo weather station, which includes weather satellite tracking facilities, takes much of the guesswork out of weather predictions. Since the resupply of inland stations, all scientific activities, and in many cases, life itself, depend upon accurate weather forecasts. The attention paid to this science in the Antarctic is understandable. Williams Field, seven miles from McMurdo, presents more hazards to the square foot than most pilots care to think about. But in they come on routine shuttle runs, an average of 300 flights a season, delivering enough food and supplies to the inland stations to last throughout the cold, dark Antarctic winter. Quick turnaround for the hard-working C-130 Hercules and its crew. Within an hour of landing, she's off again with drums of fuel for one of the other remote stations where heat and light are synonymous with oil. At the exact bottom of the Earth lies South Pole Station. Where a man can walk from today to tomorrow and on around the world in a few quick steps by circling the flagpole. It's tunnel life for these men and the never-ending chore of shoveling snow into the melters to provide fresh water. Smoke from the galley promises good things for all hands on Christmas Day. The fixings for this spread were flown in special as a kind of compensation for the disadvantages of being so isolated. It's Christmas, but with no place to go and no relatives to visit, it's back to the job again. The close confines of life under the snow provide an opportunity to investigate human behavior patterns. Sleep adaptation studies with built-in volunteers are conducted. The way a man thinks and sleeps under the stress of these unusual living conditions governs his work habits and consequently his effectiveness on the job. The instant magic of radio unites all Antarctic outposts. Weather reports exchanged between McMurdo and Plateau stations assure pilots a safe arrival and departure. Situated at 14,000 feet, Plateau station's 102-foot radio antenna is undoubtedly one of the highest structures in the world. In the spurt of building activity, one of the last James Way huts is completed at Plateau station before the start of the wintering over period. It will be used as a storage shelter for scientific gear. Taking advantage of the good weather at birdland camp, geologists on motor toboggans set out on an exploratory trip to a nearby mountain. Accompanying them is a Russian exchange scientist who with his American colleagues will take specimens of exposed rock, a rarity in the Antarctic. Here and well-defined dark air foothills has excited the interest of the scientists. U.S. visit to Soviet Russia's Vostok station accentuates the spirit of international cooperation found on the continent. An American scientist spends a year at the Russian station, exchanging technical information and providing a window through which the Soviets may catch a glimpse of American life. New faces are refreshing to the isolated Russians. And the visit provides an occasion for a feast and the inevitable toasts. Christchurch, New Zealand. Land of trees and skirts and short-sleeved shirts and a way of life temporarily suspended for those spending a hitch on the ice desert at the bottom of the earth. Here, too, is advanced headquarters for the U.S. Naval Support Force in the Antarctic and further evidence of international collaboration. The installation, supply and resupply of an outpost in the icy wastes of Antarctica must start with conferences like this. Staff members confer on what to send, how to ship it, when it leaves, and from where. Every item shipped south from toothpaste to tractors is accounted for and allotted space on either an aircraft or a ship. The pack ice in McMurdo sound proves as usual to be a tough adversary. Scarred icebreaker glacier with a New Zealand tanker in tow eases her way to final mooring at McMurdo Station. Later, in the Antarctic summer, resupply continues with the Navy's biggest support effort concentrated in surface shipping. Talk about eskimos using iceboxes. Here's a refrigeration unit in the Antarctic, uncommon spirit is a common virtue. Another achievement is added to the list. The first jet aircraft just landed on the ice when an Air Force pilot brought in a C-141 cargo plane. A New Zealand dog team, one of the few on the continent, adds an incongruous touch to the atomic age frontier. One of the most primitive, but certainly the best way to move cargo over the snow is by sled. This tractor train is carrying supplies, spare parts, food, and other necessities to survival on the last leg of a very long trip from the United States. Technological innovations such as this inflatable jack have drawn scientists to the Antarctic, including Dr. Werner von Braun, chief scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The surface of the moon, indeed not, although the moon could hardly be more inhospitable. These dry valleys with their shimmering heat waves are unique on this Earth. Air temperature and wind velocity, among other things, may help determine to some extent the reasons for the texture and composition of this soil, a prime consideration in test landings of space vehicles. Soil samples collected from what could possibly be a future space vehicle test landing site will be analyzed at a stateside laboratory of Antarctica. The well-dressed are daily pendants make a full-time job of robbing one another, not of eggs but of pebbles with which they line their nest.  Instead of pebbles, they carry a football around the ice. Gets to hug the ice queen. The Antarctic today is more than just ice and penguins and unbearable cold. It's men of many nations doing men's work. Peaceful, productive work on the only continent where weapons of war are outlawed by treaty.


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We've learned a little bit about the basics of how solar radiation is reflected, absorbed, re-emitted, and how the heat is moved around by molecules and particles. But when we consider these processes in our solar system, the sun's energy has very different behaviors with the different planets. So for example, Venus has what we call a runaway greenhouse effect, and its temperatures sit above 400 degrees centigrade. And at the other extreme, we've got Mars with a very, very thin layer of atmosphere whose temperatures are minus 55 degrees centigrade. So what is it about the Goldilocks condition? Why is it that things are just perfect here on Earth? Well, firstly, from space, Earth looks very different. We are the blue planet. There are very few blue planets that we've come across so far in our rather limited exploration of space. We have an abundance of water. Water plays a really important role in the energenetics of the Earth's atmosphere system. Water molecules are attracted to each other by what's known as hydrogen bonds. And so when we want to break an ice lattice, we need to put extra energy in to break those hydrogen bonds or to stretch them. And especially when we go from a liquid to gas molecules in the atmosphere, we have to sever. We've got to break those hydrogen bonds, and that takes an enormous amount of energy. So water absorbs and releases energy in accordance with its state. And in doing so, can alleviate some of the problems of a runaway energy system. The second thing that's really important about our atmosphere is its chemical composition. And we mainly interested in the chemical composition of what we call a homosphere. That's sort of the lower part of the atmosphere. The homosphere is primarily made up of nitrogen and oxygen. This is very different to other planets. They tend to have atmospheres made up of hydrogen, sulfur, helium and methane, which absorb a lot of energy. Nitrogen and oxygen are not really strong greenhouse gases. Mars is the only planet we know of that has traces of nitrogen and oxygen in our solar system. Now note that water vapour doesn't feature, and that's because those concentrations are averaged through the column of the atmosphere, and water vapour is only found really close to the surface of the earth, and then again quite sporadically. So it's not quite on the table, but that doesn't mean to say it's not important. It is really important. The final thing that our atmosphere has that is relatively unique is that it's really deep, 170 kilometres deep. And if you have a look at this graph, you'll see that there's variations in temperature with height going up through the atmosphere, and we have the atmosphere is deep enough so that when we heat up the surface, the molecules warm, and then as they move away from the surface, they cool, and so there's a decreasing temperature with height. And then when we get into the stratosphere, the temperatures, there's an area where it's reasonably constant, and then it increases and so forth and so on. And the other interesting thing about our atmosphere is that we've got a strong gravitational pull, and so most of the mass of the atmosphere is found very close to the surface, and pressure drops off very quickly. So this little layer that's in contact with the surface of the earth contains most of the gases, but it's still deep enough that we can get gradients forming, and that's really important as we'll learn in a few slides down the track. Our atmosphere is unique, lots of water, slightly different chemical composition, and deep.