What's up, Navigation Traders? Welcome to this week's video update. Today's Friday, February 7th. We're going to review all the alerts, all the positions for the week, exclusively for our pro members, before we jump in. Just want to take a look at the markets overall. S&P's down 20 points today, so that's helping us out on our short delta, also creating a little pop in implied volatility. But what's interesting, and just one comment I wanted to make here is, this big down day that we had last Friday, S&P's down over 60 points. Everything was being blamed on the coronavirus in the media. It's not like the coronavirus got better, but we saw gap higher, gap higher, gap higher, gap higher, until today finally getting a little bit of relief. We had exceptional job numbers this morning. The non-farm payrolls were released at 7.30 a.m. central time this morning and blew the estimates out of the water, yet we're still down. Now the media is back on the bandwagon of blaming this down day on the coronavirus. The reason I point this out is it's critical that you don't trade, especially directionally, based on news. It's a losing battle. The media is always going to try to find a headline to make you believe that's what's causing the market to do what it's doing that day. And the reality is, it's not really always the case. Of course, we saw situations where, if we look back a little bit, when we had the missiles fired from Iran and overnight, the market was down. I mean, that's pretty obvious that the market was down because of that. And then seeing things turned around because it ended up looking like that was going to be the end of it and not much of an issue. So the market rallied right back up. So sometimes you'll see things like that. But the bottom line is, if it hits the press, if it hits the TV, if it hits the Twitter, if it hits the internet, it's already too late. So trying to trade based on news is just a losing battle. So just thought that was interesting. Everywhere I look today, today's down day was about the coronavirus, but yet four days previous was a massive rally and seemingly no talk about the coronavirus as it related to the market's reaction those days. So just a little FYI. Let's jump over to the community before we talk about the alerts. Talk about who got caught being hot this week. This week goes to one of our members. He's been with us for about seven months or so, and he's just been a great asset to the community. His name is William Deal and always ready to jump in, answer traders questions, sharing trade ideas, asking great questions, just always adding value. So congrats, William, you got caught being hot. Alright, let's jump into the alerts, starting with Monday the third, Nat gas. So we rolled one of our, well, our remaining short strangle from the 22 day expiration cycle out to the 52 day expiration cycle and adjusted our calls from 2.35 down to two because the market had moved lower. So we're just rolling down our calls, collecting that credit. We kept the puts at the 1.9 strike. So if we go to the platform, I want to point something else out here. And you can see just kind of the massive slide that Natty gas has been on. But what I want to show you on the trade tab is in toss. We've got some funky stuff going on with the with the deltas and the in the positioning of these deltas within the trade tab. You can see, you know, obviously the shaded area and up, those are the in the money calls. The shaded area and down are the in the money puts. But look at the deltas, you know, on the on the put side, a, you know, you look at the 26 and the 31 are at the money. Well, that's that's not correct. And you look over here and it goes from, you know, 20 to 25 to 40 to 75 to 112. And they stay at 112 going all the way up. So it's just a miss. It's just a misfire on on tosses part. And the part of the reason I know that is if you look at tasty works, it doesn't look like this. And so that's going to translate to some goofiness over on the analyze tab. And so if you look at the analyze tab, we are actually up a couple hundred bucks on this trade. But yet this goofy PNL line shows that we're down 540 ish.  So you can't pay attention to the analyze tab.  But just this PNL line is not. So just a little FYI on Natty gas. Next trade closing trade in Netflix. So we had on a reverse iron duck in Netflix and reverse ducks have not treated as well. Obviously with the market just ripping higher at crazy rates. We got caught in the updraft with Netflix. And so it hit our exit point. So we just bailed on on that one. Next trade was a closing trade in SPX. So we had a regular iron duck on an SPX price ran higher. And so we just went ahead and closed this out booked a beak profit on SPX rolling adjusting trade in XLK. So we've got a long put vertical in XLK. We're just keeping that in there for that short delta. And so if we take a look at XLK, here's what that looks like. See prices hanging out right here inside the range. So just again, holding that for some potential more downside action. Speaking of short delta, we're at about one to one on our short delta versus our theta ratio. So we've done a we've done a really good job of not letting our short delta accumulate too heavily in this up move that we've seen. And part of that is not doing just strangles and iron condors and delta neutral strategies, but putting on those iron ducks, which we're just booking those big profits and potentially repositioning. And so that's really helped kind of lessen that situation where I talk about the short delta dilemma where we get too overly short when we have these big rip your face off rallies. And so that that's really helped with that. Now, I wouldn't mind having a little bit more short delta with with where we are in the overall market. But, you know, going back to the S&Ps, you know, we've got this rip higher here up to new highs, we're seeing a little bit of a pullback, you know, I wouldn't doubt if the market, you know, just continues higher next week. Does that mean we're going to do anything different with our positions? No, we'll can I mean, we'll continue to potentially add some little directional plays here and there. But then also, you know, continue to, you know, especially if implied volatility stays decent, we'll continue to add positions. Some of them that I'm looking at, and I put this in the current positions in Outlook, but some of the ETFs that I'm looking at for next week, EWZ, it's not quite up to 50 yet, but if we get a little bit more downside and EWZ, that'll come up to a point where we might potentially start selling premium. EWW is pretty close as well. It's right near that 50 level. XRT is above that level. So these are three that we are looking to add some more premium in next week, assuming implied volatility stays decent. But if it does, but if the markets do turn and rip higher again, then we will just kind of keep doing our thing and, you know, still adding iron ducks and some other things without selling naked premium on some of those ETFs. Okay, where was I here? Next trade, opening trade in SPX. So we opened up a new iron duck in SPX. I'd like to get a couple more of these on if we get some more down movement. But here's where we're at with this one. Let me check the boxes here to get that displayed. And you can see prices hanging out right here pretty close to where we put it on. This one is out in at February 25th is the expiration date. So currently at about an 87% pop. So got a nice big range to move down into if the market does go down on this. Next trade, opening trade in RUT. So we put on a weekly double calendar. Did this with, you know, we typically like to be in that six to eight day range on that front week where we put this on. It was at nine. I just like the way that it set up with the risk reward using the back week at 15 days to expiration. And what I mean by that is the initial, now remember on a double calendar, on a calendar spread when you're using two different expiration cycles, the width of your break evens will expand and contract based on implied volatility and price movement. And your max profit will expand and contract. So this isn't put, you know, this could definitely change throughout the life of the trade. But when we initiated the trade, you know, we've got a max loss of that 630 bucks, 628. And we've got a max profit if we go right here into the dip about a little over 800 bucks. So that's a good risk reward better than we usually get on these. And part of that is because implied volatility is higher, the options are trading richer. We benefit from implied volatility expansion on these calendars. So we like to get in on a kind of a dip in IV contraction. But at the same time, the richer those options are kind of the wider, the higher pop you get on these things, as well as, you know, a little bit better risk reward ratios. So that's where we're at. So we're up about 100 bucks on this trade. And so hopefully we stay in range for the next few days. And we're able to book a profit on this next week. Next trade opening trade in Tesla. So we put on a new iron duck in Tesla talk about a crazy train. Tesla has been on a crazy train. Look at a one year chart gives it a little bit more, more bang for the for the eyes. You know, we talked about in one of our kind of daily trade hacker update videos when it was trading right here, right, right around the 400 level, you know, I said, I think this thing is going to explode beyond that high at that point, because that was near the the all time highs, I believe, or at least a recent high back here. And it looked like it was just ready to break out. And sure enough, it did. It had that little pullback right here. I think we did a duck. I was wanting to I was wanting to get long actually do some verticals. But wait, I was waiting just for a little bit more pullback and it did not give it to us and it just ripped higher. And you know, my thought was, okay, this thing is going to get to 600 a I didn't think it was going to get there this quickly. And in order to I know it was going to blast almost up to 1000 in a parabolic move.  And what I mean by that is, Tesla is one of the most shorted stocks out there. There's a lot of big hedge funds and be big people that are known for shorting Tesla, having short positions in Tesla. And so what happens when when you see a stock like this start to rally, and there's a huge short position against it, there's going to be a an uncle point, right? There's going to be a point where these short sellers are like, I got to get out. And so to cover their shorts, they are buying stock, right? When you when you sell a stock short, you're borrowing those shares and hoping to buy them back at a lower price. And so when you cover your short positions, you're actually buying stock, which pushes the price even higher. And then the typical situation in a short string short squeeze is you have this explosive move to the upside, and then it comes back to a little bit back to reality. Now, still at 740, right? Still at 748. So it's still way above here. But that is that is a atypical situation in a short squeeze. So anyway, just a little info on that. But here's here's our position. So we put on a an iron duck and see prices moved up a little bit since we put this on. So obviously, we got a big range here to the downside. If we can get a duck head, if not, we will continue higher. And we've got how many days left on this one? Yeah, seven days. So this one expires next Friday. Next trade closing trade in SPX. So this is another iron duck that we had the options. We just let those expire booked beak profit on that trade. Next trade closing adjusting trade in GC. So we closed out the iron condor booked almost 40% of max profit on that piece of the trade. And then we're still holding our short call vertical piece. And looking for a little bit of down movement on that, I'll go to the platform here in a minute, because we also added back into this the next day. But next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in Apple. So again, another one we're holding for that short delta exposure rolled that out to March with 43 days. So we take a look at Apple, which is actually going down a little bit today, which is good. Hopefully this is a little bit of a little bit of a topping pattern for Apple. We could definitely use some downside for that short delta position because we've been taking this heat all this time. So let's look at that Apple hanging out pretty close to where it was when we rolled just inside the range, but looking for some more downside to benefit that piece. And then the next trade is the addition in gold. So we added back in a new iron condor in gold out in the cycle with 48 days to expiration. And so let's take a look at our two pieces in gold. So here's the iron condor prices hanging out right here. And you may have noticed with the skew in these options, we've got a lot more room to the upside than we do to the downside of this iron condor. And that's just due to that put skew and excuse me, call skew in this case. And I don't mind having that, especially when we have this other piece on here where we need it to move down. So on this one, we'll benefit from it moving down. Whereas the other piece, we get a little bit more room to the upside. So price is hanging out right here. We need some movement back down into range. And if we get that, we'll close that one. And lastly, we did an opening trade today in GILD. Now GILD is not one that we really trade much, but a huge implied volatility spike in GILD, even after their earnings announcement. Reason being is they're doing some clinical trials for the coronavirus. So that's really pumping up the implied volatility, pumping up the price of the options. And so we went ahead and sold some premium. You can see even after the earnings announcement, we're seeing implied volatility in the 100 level 90s. And I don't typically trade a lot of biotechs just because different announcements can come out and really move those stocks. But you can see we've already had some big movements in here. And so the thought process is maybe that big, wild swings are out of the way. And from here, it's kind of found its footing. And if things kind of settle down, implied volatility will contract, and we will benefit from that. So we sold a short strangle here. Price is hanging out right here. And so just waiting for some theta decay, IV contraction in that. One thing I did want to mention, and I didn't post this in the alert, and I meant to reply in the community on the alert just to give you my thoughts. But with a stock like this, typically when we sell premium, when we sell a short strangle, we're going to be willing to roll that. Roll up or down the untested sides, roll out to the next cycle, and just continue to collect credits and eventually book a profit if it goes against us. In a stock like this, I'm not going to do that. This is one where we may roll once, but that would probably be it. I'm not going to chase this thing around for months like I would some of the other ETFs and things that we trade, just because it's not a stock that I really want to be in long term. We're just playing this for kind of a short term implied volatility contraction. And depending on where things are, if price moves out of the range one way or another and implied volatility contracts down below 50, for example, we may just close it and take a loss. Now, we've got over 66% pop on this, so high probability trade and for booking at 30 to 50% of max profit turns it into about a 90% probability of profit, but just wanted to give you my thoughts. If we do get the IV contraction and we're not profitable, we will probably just close it and move on. So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of our other positions, oil down about a percent today, still well within range. We're down obviously because of the IV contraction as well as the move down, but still well within range, so nothing to do there. ES, we've got this long put vertical here that we're holding for short delta. Just need some more down movement to get back into range there. I mentioned gold, I mentioned natty bonds. So we've got this, what's been a 161 straddle that we've had for a bit now. This was originally adjusted from a strangle, but what I was looking at today is if we were to get out of this for about 800 bucks on profit on this piece since our role, we will be back to break even on this trade. So we started this trade. In fact, let me just go to the let me just go to it on our current portfolio, show you what I'm talking about. ZB, yeah. So we started this back in May and this thing just got annihilated. It went way against us right from the very beginning. So we've been battling this and implied volatility has stayed high. So one question now, also I want to answer because I got this in the community is is it worth it to stay in a trade like this instead of redeploying that capital when you're staying in a trade this long? Is it even worth trying to get back to profits where you could have just used that for other things? Well, that's a great question and the answer is it depends on what else is available. TLT and bonds have continued to be one of the symbols that has him high implied volatility. So I want to be short premium in that symbol. If implied volatility got down really low and there was opportunities elsewhere, then yeah, I would have just cut my losses and moved on. But in this case, we went ahead and rolled this and we are back to a point where we're almost back to profits and that's what you want to do. That's the thought process that you want to have when deciding whether to keep it or whether to cut it loose. The other thing is, of course, your account size. If you have a smaller account, you need to cut things loose quicker. Whereas if you have an account that is more manageable and you have the buying power to roll this along with doing the other positions, taking those other opportunities, that plays a major role as well. So anyway, we're pretty close to back to profits in ZB.  And I'm looking for 20%, 25% of max profit here. We've got a lot of time, 49 days. We only put this on seven days ago. So we've accumulated basically 600 bucks since our last roll. And so we'll take profits quick if they come as a percentage of this, but otherwise, we'll just keep managing as needed. Wheat up a little bit today in our range here.  I would like to add another wheat position. This one has 14 days, so we would do it out in the next cycle in the April, what TOS calls the April cycle. In fact, if I go to the continuous contracts, that is going to be the one with 49 days to expiration at this point. So Monday, that'll have about 46. And so that's what we'll be looking to potentially add there. Apple, I mentioned that one. Delta down just a little bit today. I was a little disappointed on the little bit of a rally we got here. I thought we were going to break to new lows and just go ahead and book profits on this one instead, followed the rest of the market and ripped higher. Now it's come down the last couple of days, but we are holding this long put that we're just doing for a short-term directional, just putting a little bit of short delta. I thought the airlines were going to see a little bit more downside with the whole coronavirus, but it's held pretty steady. But prices right here, so we just need a little bit of a downside move to potentially book profits there. DE, John Deere, price is hanging out right here. Just holding this for short delta, looking for a little bit more downside to benefit that one. DIA, so we're going to be looking to potentially roll our FEB piece next week. We've got what, 14 days? Yeah, 14 days in FEB. We've got 42 here. We might even roll this FEB, just skip over March just to kind of diversify our duration and roll that out to April. If we're straight selling premium, we typically like to be under 60 days, but if we're pretty directional like this, I don't mind going out a little further, especially with this. This is a hedge. We're holding this for that short delta exposure, so rolling this out next week will be down into the 60s as far as the DTE, so that will be the plan in DIA. Then we've got this other piece that's already out in March, and you can see prices still hanging on within the range there, looking for some more downside on that one as well. FXI, we've got this short strangle, prices hanging out right here, well within the range. Got a little bit of profit, just waiting for some more before we book that. I mentioned GILD, IWM, we've got this long put vertical also for that short delta exposure. You can see we've got some profit, but just looking for some more before we do anything with that. QQQ, same story, short delta, one in FEB, one in March, so same thing here. We'll probably take this FEB and roll it out to April, and hopefully we get a little bit of downside action early next week before we do that. I mentioned RUT, did I mention SMH? We've got this short strangle here, just waiting for some more time to pass, some more theta to the K. If we look at the charts, we started to get that implied volatility contraction we wanted, and then it popped up higher, so took away a little bit of our profits today, but we want to book 30%, 40%, 50% of max on that one. I mentioned SPX, SPY, another FEB position that we'll be looking to roll over the next week or so, out to March or April. Tesla, I mentioned that. VIX, we've got this bunker trade on. We take these theoreticals off, so prices hanging out right here, so no profit, no loss, it's just hanging out. Again, got this protection. The one other thing that I mentioned in that class that I'm going to add a couple more videos as we move through these, but one of the things that I've been testing and I think would be a decent addition to that class is the setup criteria, setting it up where price is hanging out right here near this short strike, whereas I've also been looking at setting it up so that price actually starts out here. By doing that, when we get this spike, the P&L line flattens out here, and as I mentioned, I mentioned this in the class, that your real benefit is when you get a really major spike in VIX. Just a little one's not really going to do much as far as protection, because we already have a lot of that downside protection in our iron ducts, in our strangles, in our iron condors, in some of our other short delta positions. This is really for that massive kind of black swan, big market correction type event, but I also think if you're looking for protection that comes quicker than a huge massive spike, if you start with your price out here in relation to your short strike, that can potentially give you a quicker profit if things start to go, and you don't need as big of a spike for that to profit. There's not a right or wrong way to do it, but I am going to add another video or two just kind of explaining that as an alternative setup criteria, and I'll have more specifics about that. XBI, price is hanging out right here in our short strangle, so just waiting for some more theta decay there, and then I mentioned XLK. So that's all the alerts, that's all the positions, everybody have a great weekend, talk to you next week.


I want to say good morning and good afternoon wherever you might be streaming in and joining us today. Thrilled to have you here for another episode of the nonprofit show. Today we have with us Joshua Pesquet with Roundtable Technology and Joshua is here to talk to us about AI, artificial intelligence. So stay with us before we dive deep into this conversation with Joshua. We want to remind you who we are. So hello to Julia Patrick, CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. I'm Jarrett Ransom, your nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven Group. And you know we are always so thrilled to have the continued support from our amazing sponsors. You can see our newest one right there in the middle for those of you watching, but I'll give a shout out of course to be generous as our newest sponsor. Thank you so very much. And also of course to Bloomerang American nonprofit Academy, fundraising Academy at National University, your part-time controller, staffing boutique, nonprofit thought leader, and myself nonprofit nerd. We are thrilled to be here thrilled again to see this support growing in and around our community support you and your mission. So if you missed any of our 600 plus episodes, you know where to find us. That would be Roku YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, as well as Vimeo. There are so many archives for you to access at any time 24 seven.   Well, Joshua, you've been waiting so patiently and we know you've got a fun filled calendar day so we don't want to keep you too very long, but we definitely want to dive deep. And again, welcome Joshua Pesquet, professional services, cybersecurity with round table technology. Welcome to you. Thank you so much.  We are really excited. I mean, cybersecurity, that's a hair on fire moment for us. We talk about it, you know, at more and more, and it comes at us for from many different places. And so before we get into AI, which I'm just fascinated by this conversation. Share with us what round table technology does. Sure. What's referred to as a managed services provider, which if you're not familiar with that term, essentially a technology provider to nonprofit organizations. So if you have a nonprofit, you know, with 510 or 25 staff, you may not have an IT person so we might handle all of your technology and strategy. If you're 100 or 200, maybe you have some internal IT resources, but they need some help. And so we can provide that help or again be your full IT provider. And then if you're 500 or 1000 staff or larger than that, maybe you want some strategic help. Maybe you're a COO or a CFO that got settled with managing the technology team. If you're not really a technology person, so you're like, I don't know if they're good or they're, you know, then we can help with that as well. And so that's we kind of fit into all those little spots. Amazing. Thank you. That's great. And I love that you can work with a nonprofit where they are at that point in time. That's super cool. I think that's critical in the nonprofit space to kind of understand, you know, they can't do the things that, you know, wealthy for-profits can do in terms of just, you know, fitting into the round hole every time. So you've got to try to meet them where they are for sure. And one last question about roundtable technology. I'm assuming you can really go with a nonprofit wherever they might be in North America or just the US or you're, you know. We work with organizations with international presence, quite a few actually. We're, we have operations in a few different metro areas. So we're in Maine, we're in New York City and the New York metro area. We're in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We have a lot of personnel in those locations. But we do serve organizations all over the country and in fact all over the world. Awesome. And I apologize if I'm perspiring as we talked about before.  So I got the AC going but it was a little warm here. No, you would have never known for those of you joining us that were with us in the green room chatter. Joshua is actually joining us outside the State Fair of Minnesota. That's correct. Yep. Minnesota and he's on his last day of vacation and he's going to jump in or jump out of the car and run in and find some great fair food with the rest of his family as soon as this is done.  Everything, sure. Well, I wanted to start this with a sort of riddle and you may have heard it before, but and follow me with where I'm going, but we'll, and if you haven't heard this, that's okay. But so imagine you've got a lake and it's totally clear and then on day one, one lily pad appears. Okay, and we're going to say that this lily pad doubles every day. So day two, I've got two lily pads, day three, I've got four lily pads, and by day 30, okay, the entire lake is covered in lily pads. So the first part of the riddle, which you may know the answer to is on what day is the lake half full of lily pads? Don't know the answer. You know, we're short for time. So just give us the answer. Sure. So it's the 29th day, because of course, if it's doubling every day, then it will be half full the day before it's completely full. Okay. The harder question, and I'll just give the answer is what day is the lake 1% covered in lily pads? Okay, and that's actually the 24th day, which I think is very nonintuitive. And the reason I'm going into this is the idea of AI and the way it's impacting us is something that is not intuitive to a lot of people because it's following an exponential growth. And we're used to linear growth, which kind of goes, you know, maybe it dips, but it goes in a linear line. Exponential growth, if you imagine yourself on this lake, right, and you're kind of not noticing any lily pads, not noticing any little pads. On day 24, right after lily pads have been growing for 24 or 30 days, you're like, Oh, there's a handful of lily pads over there. Six days later, it's entirely full. I'm going to propose that we may be at a moment like that with AI, where for 10 years for 20 years for 30 years, we've been hearing AI is going to have this impact. AI is going to change our lives. AI is going to do all this. And it's this slow growth. Wow. And we might be right at this point where it's going to shoot up like day 24 on that lake that's going to be covered in lily pads in 30 days. And so the rest of this we'll talk about, as we talk about these things, I want people to kind of, if you felt like it's been hyped, it may still be, it may still be a few more years or even a decade before we really see big impacts. But I just want to warn people that exponential growth, like what we're seeing in AI is not intuitive to humans in terms of how fast it makes an impact. Yeah, I'll say I'm really bad at riddles. But I love that analogy and the story that you shared because it has definitely overcome us. I was at the AFP icon conference in Las Vegas this year and technology Joshua was like, covered it was the lily pads of the lake in the conference. All I saw really was technology and artificial intelligence AI really was, you know, surfacing up so I appreciate that and I'm certainly starting to see the lily pads and I'm I'm rowing and there's a lily pad every place, every place I row for sure. Yeah. Wow.  And I love that you started out this conversation that way, because for me what you just said makes it real, and makes it that shocking thing that you said is that you don't see any change and then all of a sudden it's on us. Yep. So, one of those things that you are going to bring up or talk to us is about blogging with AI. And what is this and what is specifically Jasper? Sure. Well, Jasper is one company that's really using a technology that's referred to as GPT three. Okay, and well, there's a lot to unpack here but there's a company that was formed called open AI, I think around 10 years ago by, you know, a bunch of smarty pants and they are a number of different projects is another one that we'll probably talk about the may have heard about called doll II. And these are learning networks. All right, that they feed huge amounts of data. And then GPT three specifically is a language processing engine. The three is because it's the third generation of this, and to go back to our kind of lily pad exponential growth. It's been all of I want to say four or five years since GPT one came out. And each iteration which are taking on average about one and a half to two years are orders of magnitude, more powerful than the previous one. So GPT one people were kind of like, Oh, that's interesting. It can write some sentences and they're kind of, you know, almost good grammar GPT two they were like, Oh, that's pretty cool. It can really write full on sentences and write stories and write a little bit of simple code. And GPT three came out, you know, about a year and a half ago, and people were, Wow, I cannot tell the difference between content written by GPT three versus a human. And there's something that you may have heard of called the Turing test, where which is basically can I have a human being in a, you know, chat or in a computer and can human tell the difference. So many respects were there now, right, if I allow a human to ask questions and in plain language of a human and that human types and answers and GPT three types and answers. Most humans can't really tell the difference between who's answering at this point. And so Jasper is a tool that round table has been using now for many months to write content. And many organizations are doing this, and it allows you to take what might have been four hours of my time or one of my colleagues time to write a cybersecurity article, whereas now our marketing manager whose name is Justin funnily enough so Justin and Jasper work together, right. I kind of showed Justin how Jasper worked and how to generate articles in the process that I was using, he will now generate with Jasper in the span of half an hour. You know, a 1000 page article on let's say, you know, the latest phishing scams, he'll send it to me, I'll review it in 10 minutes, and that goes out, and that previously would have been maybe four hours of my work to write that blog post for our marketing person. So when we talk about this content generation like a lot of organizations are using this to generate content. Today, a lot of the content you're seeing is in fact written by some combination of an AI like just Jasper or other companies that are leveraging GPT three to provide writing tools copy dot AI is another one writer RYTR is another, they all are basically using that GPT engine and then charging you a fee to provide you with an interface so that you don't have to be a programmer to use it. I was going to ask about that investment like what are we talking by way of dollars because if we're saving four hours of a professional's time, but we're trading that for an AI. What does that equate to in savings. Well, it's, you know, horrifically expensive. It's $20 a month for Jasper dot AI to write 100,000 words. And I won't tell you what hourly rate round table puts me out but let's just say that I think the time we're saving is very good return on investment for round table. For sure.  And the quality of these articles is, is you know, I would still argue that that given four hours I could write an article that's maybe 20, 25% better than what Justin and Jasper are putting out. But that's today. Yeah, that's now for is do any time now. So it's even going to be more. Let me ask you this, we talked so much about SEO work and understanding how we need to be there with our websites. When when Google spidering, you know, our website or looking through things, can they discern that this is something that's been crafted through AI versus Josh. This is the million billion, maybe even trillion dollar question that people are wondering about Google is saying they want to work to have the SEO prefer human generated content. What I haven't heard anyone from Google or anywhere else say is how they will possibly do that. When humans can't tell the difference between human generated content and AI, I'm not sure how Google is going to tell the difference. And why also if if Google's job is to put out put up front what is the best content right if I'm searching for what's the best live nonprofit television show that goes four times a week right five times a week five times a week sorry, you know, whether you know that's the non if some AI generated show is actually a providing better content somehow, why wouldn't Google put that forward right over the humans if that really was the better content if you're the better content, then it should continue to prefer you so we'll see where that where that lands. But it is, it's not clear to me nor have I heard anybody make a coherent technology technological argument, how, you know, things will be able to tell there is, there are ways to tell things like deep fakes photo editing, you know, there are there are techniques you can use to try to tease those things apart and say this video seems deep faked here's some reasons, text is pretty. I don't know how you decide if something's written by human written by man. But what I hear you saying is it seems to me that there is some sort like with Justin, you know, you're talking about your, your partner in crime, so to speak, I'm going to flush out some things and add some nuance or phraseology right it's not just like a. Okay, I looked at it go there's some sort of human engagement at this point right. Absolutely.  And you know that that's fine right and we've adjusted and we figured it out we're on technology that didn't, you know, we're talking to each other and technology that didn't exist. None of the companies behind you with the exception and maybe two or three existed. So the changes occur what I would say right now. The skill that I would encourage your audience to be exploring is how do I use these tools and become skilled at feeding the prompts into a an AI content generating tool, whether it's an image generator or a text generator that produces content of the greatest value and quality. So what Justin is doing right is leveraging AI tools out of HubSpot never to figure out what is the SEO terms what are the folks that are in our target market searching for and maybe it's they're searching for phishing attacks right you know cyber security, whatever it is, he then will go say okay let's come up with an article maybe he'll run those by me I'll say here's five articles what do you think that that all look good from an SEO standpoint. What feels the most relevant to you Josh I'll say I like these two. He'll come back with the article. I make a few edits, and that collaboration between Justin, our marketing manager, Jasper our AI collaborator and me. Subject matter experts, so to speak. That allows us to really, really quickly produce a lot of what we think is really good quality content, you know at a high level. I have to ask, how are we going to keep up with this we in particular the nonprofit sector because, you know, there's so many small nonprofits and how we define small is different. But I'm thinking there's so many viewers and listeners they're going, I don't have a Justin I certainly don't have a Jasper like, you know, I really just know R2D2 and that was in a movie so that's that's what I know my title is actually three CPO so I love that so yeah how will this impact to the sector. I mean, that's who knows right. They're going to be the only thing going back to the lead pad examples I think the impacts will be huge and already are huge I think the things that I would that I would encourage people to look at when you think of the small nonprofits that you were just talking about right. You can have a Jasper you can have a writer you can have a copy AI because these are not expensive tools right and now you have the ability to generate content in the same way. Right and at the same pace and scale that enterprise and this is what where I think nonprofits fear technology sometimes and fear the changes of it. When in fact, a lot of these changes really democratize powerful technologies that become available to everyone and social media for all of its ills, right, provided platforms for nonprofits that were the same platforms that Fortune 500 companies are using. And if they can produce a compelling message and create an audience and they have every bit as much leverage as a massive corporation so I would encourage people to learn how to use these tools. I also think nonprofits are uniquely situated to really dig into the ethics of these tools particularly when we start getting I mean content generation has its own ethic, you know, ethics around it. We start getting into using AI for something called 88. Automated decision process ADP right automated decision processes are automated decision systems where we want to evaluate who's available for low income mortgages. We can only evaluate so many applications in a month so that that's a limiter on our ability to provide mortgages to needy families. Well if we can create an automated system maybe we can 10x 20x the number of mortgages we can put out. However, right, these data sets that are being used to create these automated data systems. I think that's going to affect them all the biases and systematic prejudice that came from the data it was there so you know if there was redlining going on in the data that we use to divine that then we're going to have an AI that's going to continue redlining which is obviously horrible and a lot of for profits and corporations are kind of moving fast and breaking things. And I think nonprofits have a real place to say, hey, we want to use this stuff but we want to use it ethically and we want to point out where others are using it in ways that aren't ethical. Right, and and really try to dig into that because I think there's a lot of mess that can happen with AI. But also a lot of wonderful wonderful things that could happen. My first thought is that cybersecurity so integrating AI at all and even in a much larger way Josh like how can we protect our cybersecurity knowing that usually for small shops medium shops you know the person that's doing it and the technology is simply the person that knows where to plug in the right cord, right so like, how are we going to manage cybersecurity and the potential risk of that. So I would say the upshot there is that you know there are some really as someone who lives and works in the cybersecurity world and with a lot of people who have very significant threat models so you know human rights journalists working internationally, activists working internationally so people that are being, you know under surveillance from nation states and have really legitimate threats. I can say from those folks to you know the community theater, you know in Oklahoma. There are really basics and fundamentals that are still incredibly effective. And these are simple things like training your staff and there's lots of free materials we offer. Every year something called the best free one hour cybersecurity awareness training ever sounds like a mouthful. Our seventh annual is coming up this January it's free for everybody we actually give away money at the training. And we try to make it really fun and entertaining. That's a really simple free thing you can do also things like multi factor authentication so making sure that for all of your critical accounts. I've heard a million times I'm here to say it is really critical and at this point, your insurers aren't going to ensure you if you don't have those things in place. So that becomes really important. But those two things just making sure that you're securing the accounts, you know that people log in with making sure you're training your staff and then I would say the last one is just, you know, this little annoying update to get on your phone and everything, run them. As soon as you get them. That is that is these are simple, mostly free things that you can do that really improve your cyber security posture tremendous amount. Oh my gosh, I have learned so much. I'm overwhelmed, but I am also really glad to know that round table is here in our community communities plural, right. And to know that there's so many smarty pants like yourself, Josh that can help us. I'm not as smart at the things that I do. I think the beauty of the nonprofit sector and you know it's everybody's smart at their job and I view my job is, you know, taking the stuff that feels overwhelming to you, and trying to help you with that so that you can do the stuff you're great at right. I agree. That's why I call myself the nonprofit nerd like, you know if we're talking it and cybersecurity I don't know if you notice but my eyes might have glazed over just a tiny bit. Just because these are like, these are things that I, I am not, you know, truly aware of and Julie I'm curious from you like you said here on fire, you know, a couple of times but this is some serious conversation and I, I think we're going to need a lot more of this. I think we are to I want to make sure, Josh, I know that there's there's a chance that we might lose you shortly. I think my batteries holding up. I'm just going to wipe a little sweat off the brow here. Okay, yeah, no, no, it's all good. We've even made you sweat. That's like intense. Right. Hey, you know, Joshua Peske professional services, cybersecurity, roundtable technology. Yeah, you've really given me some new things to think about. I think one of the lessons learned for me today was how quickly things can change how change can sneak up on us. I think that's your lily pad piece. I'm going to forever hold that in my heart because that goes with a lot of things. So thank you. Thank you for sharing that. That was genius. And the other piece of it is, and Jared, I don't know if you heard this, but Joshua was like, you know, a lot of times we fear change and we think that technology specifically is going to erupt our labor market and what who and what we need. But ultimately it actually challenges us to bring in more people. And so I thought that was really interesting because we worry about that a lot in the nonprofit sector. You know, who's going to do this work and where are we going to find these people? So I thought that was a really interesting piece of the discussion. I just want to say like I really encourage folks to not fear technology or think of technology as replacing work, but think of it as a collaborator. Like we talk about Jasper now as a collaborator as though the tool was kind of a colleague or an employee of ours. And in all the ways that that's true in terms of the ethics of it of needing to, you know, monitor the behavior and the outputs of that collaborator. But if you think of these as collaborators that can bring huge amounts of value to your organization if you know how to work with that. Right. I love that. And thank you for sharing that. And I also, I'm also surprised that you've used the word ethics probably four or five times in this conversation. Not in a negative way, but like bringing this back to saying, yeah, there's some things to think about. Yeah, as a best practice. Yeah. When I when I think of that really bad knife and some of the things that I'm seeing, you know, I'm, I'm simultaneously really excited and really afraid, because this is, I think in in a lot of different ways the most powerful technology that humans have. Encountered. And if, you know, there's the potential to change our world and really beautiful and incredible ways and there's of course the potential for outcomes that we don't want. And the nonprofits are situated in that way to keep an eye on that and really try to as much as they can put a hand on the scale and hope that it works out in humans favor. Joshua, please join us again. I really appreciate and just want to honor the fact that you made this conversation. Very like doable, you know, again for someone that this isn't my my native language I really appreciate it and you helped me understand the importance of the focus on this so I really do hope that you will come back. Maybe bring Jasper next time. Absolutely. We could do a live demo we can write an article we can create some images we can even make a video, you know, that would be super cool. That would be super cool but just so you know, Jarrett ransom the nonprofit nerd and myself Julia Patrick we are sentient people. We are here. Real people. Yeah, we have for now we can. I'm just to robot the perspiration is just to fake you out make you think of that's right. We make our guests squirm. Hey, this has been fabulous and I agree with Jarrett man we got to get you back on because I know today I'm going to have just a lot more questions that kind of filter in through my day about things that you said. And that's one of the wonderful things about the nonprofit show. It always leaves me and I know Jarrett you and I've talked about this it leaves us thinking and how powerful is that. And again, the power of that thought comes to all of us with our partnerships for their sponsors. So we want to make sure as we end our time with Joshua today to remind everyone that Bloomerang American nonprofit Academy staffing boutique. Fundraising Academy at National University your part time controller and our new sponsor be generous along with nonprofit nerd. They're here every day and they help us have these conversations, which is super cool. So we want to say thank you very, very much. We also want to say as especially Joshua you need to hear this because you're going to go in and eat fair food. We end every episode with this mantra. Stay well so you can do well today. It has a culinary reference. I'm going to be very unwell in about four hours. Too much fried food on a stick, but but that's okay. It's what I'm signing up for with my kids. Enjoy it to the max. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for having me and thank you so much for the work you both do. It's really terrific. Thank you. Hey, it's been wonderful again. Stay well so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow everyone.


She's nothing. She's nothing now. Who make her nothing? Me. Who are you? Who are you? And how long have you been living in her? I'm never going to leave her. You say what? I'm never going to leave her. You say what? How long have you been living in her? Forever. What have you done to her? Everything. You made her hate herself. You make her hate herself? What else? What have they even done to her? Everything's failing her. What have we done to her career? She wanted it. She wanted it. She got it. Wanted what? Everything that she wanted. She wanted it all. She invited it in and now we're here. She wanted what? She wanted to do drugs now. She's stuck. So who make her took it? She took him on her own. Oh, she came for it. Huh? She took him. So what have you done to her? Who make her nothing? Me. You. Who are you? She's so bright. She's a bright light. She wants to help all these kids. She wants to help all these people. I'm going to stop her. Okay. Want to stop her? How long have you been living in her? Forever. Huh? For a long time. Okay. What have you done to her marriage? It's done. How did you enter her? How did you enter her? Her mother's lifestyle. So what are the evil you've done to her? Speak louder. I ruin everything. You ruin everything. Everything I want. I suppress her. I keep her held down with drugs. She gets on the drugs. I get her hooked on it. She's beaten heroin before. She's on heroin. She got clean from that. Then I got her on meth. Now she's got clean from that. And I'll get her. Where's the cause? I'll get her. So you got the cause. What have you done to her family? They all hate her. I think she's crazy. The whole town they think she's crazy. Now get out of her. I command you in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. Because of this body. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out in the name of Jesus Christ. She's free. My name is Kayla. I came from a generation, Miss Kelly invited me to Shepard. I don't know. What's his name? Yes. His conference and kind of been like touching go since then. Okay. So we understand that you have a testimony to share with us about what God Almighty has done in your life. So if you could just start from the beginning on how you first came to a hungry generation or when God Almighty began to touch your life and share with us what God has done in your life ever since. Ever since the conference it's been like just work, work, work, you know, like trying to get things off of me. But the weekend before the conference on Friday, I was like, I kept trying to get here and I couldn't like everything was like preventing me from getting here. And so I was like, I don't even care if I have to walk from work. I'm going to walk from work to get to this place. I have to get there. And I did like I came I was like laid out in front and like I was really kind of incoherent. I didn't really know what was going on. But I knew that I felt like I wasn't breathing anymore. Like I died and like my eyes were sealing. I could hear these demons talking to me and telling me like, I'm going to kill you right now. I'm from all these little Christian people. And what are you going to do? No one's going to help you. It was just so happened that I could hear everybody talking and saying, Oh, no, this person's not coming. This person's not coming. This person's like, you know, like, we're just going to go home.  I'm going to die right here. They're not going to know they can come back. I'm going to be a dead lady in their church. You know, I'm like thinking all these things, but I couldn't say anything. And it was just like, they're like, okay, we're just going to have service. We're just going to start praying anyway. So quickly just to clarify, you mean to say that the week before the conference, you actually came here on a Friday night prayer before anybody got here. So this is what she's talking about. Yeah. So yeah, like nobody even knew I was here. I was like, because everybody's like up there, I'm way down here. And I could hear people saying, like, who's back is this? Who's code is this? And I want to be like me and I couldn't, like I couldn't say anything. So I mean, during this time, it was just like really scary. I could feel my pulse. Like I felt like my breathing was stopping. It was shallowing and like I was getting really cool. I could actually feel cool to my, like my skin was getting cool. And it was just like, I really felt like I was dying. In the mix of it, like they started service and I can hear them praying and I could feel kind of like, I actually thought like, I thought it was Lana. I don't know. It wasn't. She told me, no, that wasn't me. But it was like covering. Like when somebody's getting prayed on, they fall down, they cover them. It was like, I could feel these coverings over me, like over and over and over again. And I could like vaguely see like, just people, not people, but just like things putting it over me. And then like, it just went dark. It was like completely like so black, you know, and just cold. And then like, it was just like really, really bright again. As they're praying, as you, as they start praying up here and stuff and the music's going, the base of the music's like pumping me, like pumping me back to life. And it was crazy because it was like the week before, like it just, let's put our hands together for Jesus. So Kayla, as you mentioned, that you were having the supernatural experience just right here in the front of the altar. As prayer was getting started, I just want to know really quickly, what were the struggles that you were having in your life before that actually prompted you to come here and receive prayer? What can you just explain for us a little bit about what was going on and why you found it necessary to seek an answer from God? Yes. My whole life actually, like from the time I can't remember, it's been like one tragic event after an ex. It's like, I barely get up and boom, I get knocked right back down.  And you know, and then as I got a little older, I just dove into drugs because that's what was around me. And that's what I used as a covering probably from about the age of like nine and 10 is when I started to use drugs and I got into an heroin addiction. I moved here from Pennsylvania because of that heroin addiction. Then I got into meth. And then when I started doing meth, the people that I was doing it with was also into witchcraft. So they were putting things on me and I was doing the drug and I was just like, I was completely just lost. I've always known about God. So I knew that I had to get, you know, this church is the only church in this whole place that I've ever found that the Holy Spirit moves in, you know, I never felt that. And it's like, so when I felt that the first time, that's why I was so drawn to keep coming back here. And Friday, I was just like, I don't care. I've had to crawl there. I'm gonna crawl there. And so it was just like, with the music, it was so awesome because music's always been really important to me. But like, in that moment, it was a week before I came here, I was listening to music at my house and I was like praising God. And I'm like, man, if I can get to this speaker close enough, I'm like sitting on the speaker, trying to get, you know, trying to get like the bump of it. And so like, it was weird. It was just really amazing that it was the base of the music here that was like pumping me like I could feel myself like pumping back to light, you know, back to life or whatever. And I started to feel more like prayer over me, like they were walking like closer. I felt like to me like more prayer was covering me. And as it was covering me and the bumping of the music, it was like, finally, I was just like, and like, I could breathe again. Like I couldn't even breathe that deep, trying to even show you guys how deeply like it was like God was like breathing into me. But right before that, like it was just all this light, it was so much light after that blackout, it was like a blackout, then so much light. And it was just like calming, peaceful.  And it's just like, then I like kind of blacked out again, but not in like a dark way. And then that's when that breath came through. And also a pastor facility started to pray on me. And I never even spoke to him yet. At that point, when he was praying on me, and he was like putting crosses in my back, everywhere that he was crossing in my back, I had pain there for years, like so many years.  Wow, let's put our hands together for Jesus. So you mean to say that since that day, since you're receiving that prayer, and even as pastor facility was praying for you, that all of those places that he prophetically put his hand, all of those are healed now in Jesus name. Yes. But it gets so much better. Like, and so I started manifesting. I started manifesting. And it was like, whoa, it was just to watch it over again.  But it was still like, there was just something there, you know, but I was so delivered. I felt so much better.  And then so through the conference, I had, well, before the conference, I had like lumps in my breast. Breast cancer runs my family so deeply. Like it hasn't skipped generation since my like great grandma, my mom's had it twice. She survived it.  And so I have the cancer gene.  And they were just like dropping down. It was really gross, really gross. And so I had those lumps on Friday whenever I came here. I really didn't speak about it. And I always knew God could heal, but I didn't really ask him to help me. It was, I don't know, weird. After the conference on Sunday, before I left, I realized that those lumps, like all of them are gone except for one, but even that one was way small. And I was like, shocked.  And it's like, whoa, that was cool. You know, wow. Amen. So you mentioned that you also were receiving healing from the breast lumps, but can you just explain for us about what happened as you received prayer at the conference? What happened to you? What can you say about everything that took place that day? I went through the prayer line at the conference all three times and it was just like, I would feel lighter and lighter. The second day, I stayed with Victoria for the whole weekend because I'm like, okay, there's a prevention. I'm not, you know, I'm going to stay with Victoria. So on Saturday, I was talking to Ms. Kelly, you know, texting back and forth and it was like, I felt so much freer and better and lighter, but I still felt like there was something there, but I could never get it out. I couldn't talk about it. And Ms. Kelly was like, you know what? I think like dumb, deaf, spirit kind of, I'm feeling, you know, and it was, it was crazy because my whole life, since I've been a kid, I can see an image of myself as an old lady in a rocking chair. There's nothing around me. It's just bluntness and I'm just refused to talk.  It was, I can't really put it into words. The whole weekend was just like, whoa, like mine, it was blown, blown me away. And then on Sunday, when I went home, I'm like, Oh, okay, I realized that like, okay, you'd really did heal my lungs. So, okay, you know, I have scoliosis really bad. And to the point where like when you put your finger down my spine, there was a point where like, there was no bone, you could just feel an empty like dip, you know.  You just fixed my whole life up in this weekend. So it's like, one more, you know, one more. So I was just have praise music on. I laid on the ground and I could, I could feel it. My son comes busing and he's like, just got out of the shower and I'm like, he's like, what? I'm like, God, telling my back right now. And he's like, I just, I just need some underwear. I'm like, okay, hurry up, you know. But it was like, I could feel the push down. It was like pressure and heat. And it was like, it didn't hurt at all. But I could feel like a push of my, you know, spine. And it's like, it's still a little lumped right there. But there's actual bone where I couldn't feel bone before. There's, I could feel the hardness of bone in those spots. Wow. See, amen. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. So you mean to say that the scoliosis where your back had dipped your bone, your, your spine has actually straightened out since then. Amen. Amen. We serve a miracle working God. Hallelujah. I don't hear you loud enough. I need to hear you say, hallelujah. Amen. So Kayla, you mentioned that before you came to the conference, before you came to that prayer, Friday night prayer, that you had been struggling with methamphetamine and being addicted to drugs. So what has happened to you since you've had this wonderful encounter with Jesus Christ, as he's healed your body of different kinds of sicknesses and diseases, and he's set your heart free. But what has happened in that regard to the addiction that you had to drugs?  I'm just trying to say, I set you free and I set you apart over here. You know, it's like, you can't do these things. But what really got to me is that my mom was watching from the Friday service. My mom was watching it obsessively. I don't know why, like over and over and over again.  And when I'm watching this video, like, watch this again. And I'm like, you know, but as soon as I thought to smoke, I thought those vapors, you know, and I even did try to smoke marijuana and it was like, nothing, no effect, no effect on me whatsoever, that I instantly thought of those vapors and was like, Oh, absolutely not. I cannot do this. I realized what I was doing for the first time, stopped and thought about it and the repercussions of it. And I actually had like a conscience for the first time in my whole life. I never thought about if I was a fending God or nothing, I just did what I wanted to do impulsively. And I have never thought about consequences or anything, how I was hurting anybody. But this time I did. And that's, it's awesome. It may seem like a small thing because normally people have that, you know, but it's like, it's so awesome to care. And I'm excited about life. Like I'd never been excited about life, my life. Amen. So since that day, have you picked up any drugs, any methamphetamines, any marijuana since that day? No, no. Amen. Let's put our hands together for the miracle working Jesus Christ. Amen. And lastly, Kayla, we just want to ask you, we know that you have gone through a lot in the last couple of weeks and God Almighty has done a complete overhaul on your life. And we just want to know how you're doing now, your excitement about life. And what is your advice to people who may have been struggling with the same things that you have with drugs or with any kind of sicknesses? What can you tell them to encourage their faith? Well, one is that like we have to, I have to start looking at God as he is my father. So just like if my child, she can't reach something and she needs a cup, she's thirsty. If she doesn't ask me, I don't know that she needs it. And I mean, God's not human.  He cares about what we want and he wants us to communicate it with him. So even though he knows and he can fix it in a second, just ask him. And if you feel like you keep falling and you feel like all negative, just keep asking for forgiveness as soon as you mess up. Like don't let time wait. Don't let a second get in between your sin and God without asking for forgiveness because it separates so much and it will control your mind. It will just keep trying no matter how much you fall. Just keep trying. Amen. Let's put our hands together one more time for Jesus.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Over the past few weeks we have been talking a lot about Ukraine, about the war hysteria that is being built up, whether invasions are going to take place every week. This week we are going to shift a bit and talk about an issue that has also been in the news over the past few weeks, which is the amnesty report, which has declared that Israel has been practicing apartheid against the Palestinians. Now this report has a lot of important aspects to it which need to be discussed. We will be talking about all this on mapping fault lines. We are joined by Prabir Prakash. Prabir, so this is a very interesting report, both because of what it says and the responses to it. We will come to that of course. Now some of the key things of the report are one, it's not the first report of this kind. Palestinian activists have been saying this for decades if not generations. And we do know that even some human rights organizations over the past few years have increasingly come to adopt the paradigm of apartheid while talking about what Israel is doing. But nonetheless this report has sort of summarized the experiences of Palestinians from 1948 onwards, talking about those in the occupied territories, talking about Palestinians in Israel, Palestinians in the diaspora. So that way it's a very comprehensive report in some senses. But taking maybe a larger picture, what do you see as some of the more larger significances of this report coming out at this point of time specifically? I think the major importance of this report is amnesty which till date had been quite wishy-washy on this whole issue of Palestinians and what the Zionist racism is all about, settler colonialism. That it has shed a lot of that, not completely. We can discuss later what it hasn't or said. But it has addressed glaring issues which if it doesn't then it becomes at least can be targeted or identified as a group which really is partial to what maybe the Russians do, what maybe the Chinese do, but not what happens when it comes to a major western favorite which Israel is. So I think in that sense it is also credibility of amnesty at stake if it doesn't raise these issues, only talks about third world or countries which they don't like. So I think this is where it is a very important report because it comes from essentially the heartland of the United States, the West, the Europeans and so on. They have been using amnesty for a long time to talk about various human rights violations that now this is also to be addressed regarding what is happening in the West Bank and what's happening in Israel itself and also of course Gaza which remains a bleeding wound in that part of the world. So I think that is a very, very important landmark because it's happening within the heart of shall I say the Western liberal thought about what human rights is. That's also the reason why Israel is so worried about it, as it is also worried about United Nations which also is now coming around to criticizing it on various counts, particularly with what its handling of Gaza is. I think these in that sense are therefore coming to a head for Israel, that slowly it is coming to be recognized what should be considered a state which should be outside the pale of civilized behavior like apartheid South Africa was and if it reaches that state that that is how people view it then slowly the legitimacy it pretends to have particularly in Western media and within Western past that is slowly going to erode if it is not already eroding. So this is I think the bigger picture as you have rightly said it addresses issues which either to have not been so much focused on Gaza has been there that something that people can't deny but it has always been assumed that Palestinian citizens of what could be the historical Palestine who are in Israel they have full citizenship right this is the picture that's always been given to us now it seems that's not true it's also not true that they can acquire land easily it's not true that they can acquire buildings easily they are in fact slowly begin ease doubt of places where they used to be and slowly being also ghettoized which we know and what from reports that we have that for them to get land is almost impossible 93% of thing I think of land in Israel is vested with the state in a way that only Jewish citizens can act can have ownership of land there so they are restricted to about 7% though they are 18% of the population so if we leave all of that out the daily really the daily grind of this kind of exclusionary behavior that in order to go to school you need to cross gates of course it's much more the fate of the West Bank today Gaza I'll come to later but in West Bank going to school going to hospital going to your field all of this needs going to check posts and check posts are manned by 18 year 19 year kids who are taught to hate right from the beginning they are really non-citizens and we have to treat them as such so the power is exercised and this relationship of appetite as it is now being openly called is also through this kind of system where you teach the young how to treat an occupied territory and this is where it starts from and that gets internalized when you enter the Israeli military forces which is they're supposed to mandatory and of course colleges later on all of this starts with your duties on the check posts and for the Palestinian citizens from childhood it also starts at the check post so this is one part of it which is very clear the taking away land is an everyday occurrence settlements growing everyday occurrence and all of this is available treatment of Gaza which is what the original inhabitants of you know the southern part of what is now Israel they have been really displaced made refugees that have been stuck into this little small ghetto of Gaza where they don't have access to see they don't have access to any other country for importing goods they don't have access to agricultural land which has been taken over by the settlers in that part of the land of Israel it is originally their land this from where they have all been squeezed into Gaza and then Gaza is looked on as a case where Israel claims they have to periodically mow the grass except mowing of the grass means taking out active population who can resist them is becoming increasingly more and more difficult so this is the bleeding wound at the heart of Israel Gaza and of course the West Bank which is not in the same state of Gaza as it has a little more resemblance of Palestinian authority in pockets some amount of funds coming in from outside but Gaza has no viable way of sustaining so if you look at that it is a essentially has been made completely dependent for from food to any necessity including water and electricity on Israel so this is the total dependency that's been built in so this is the structural appetite of course the violence of the settler communities violence of Israeli forces violence of Israeli police all of that is of the larger in the part of the larger picture but the structural regime of appetite where people have very different rights depending on which part you are from as a Palestine Palestinian in Israel you have partial citizenship rights not full partial if we're in West Bank it's occupied territory but you don't face the kind of brutality that Gaza faces Gaza of course is the worst and you have Jordan Valley next to the river so it's really in that sense a part of the West Bank and there of course they're not allowed so you can see the way this whole squeezing of the Palestinian population is going on and Israeli are very frank about it they think that if we squeeze them enough they will leave and this land will become totally ours that's the that's what they're looking for and that's the argument they give so designating them as an appetite state is the fear that the loose legitimacy in the Western population and it's the Western countries particularly the United States which really props up the state of Israel and I think that the amnesty report therefore is a huge blow to their credibility and the credibility of the story that they are somehow oppressed by the Palestinians by the Arabs we don't know by who but they are somehow oppressed and therefore the legitimacy of Israel is a legitimate legitimacy of the Jewish people having a homeland the whole what shall we say the settler colonial myth of Israel that that is endangered and if that is endangered there is a huge risk that the isolation of Israel will continue to grow and under such conditions that it's a long-term viability of Israel younger people may leave the long-term viability of Israel based on funds from United States and others they slowly dry off then how does Israel survive lowly outpost of the Zionist state or it's outpost of the Western powers in that region which is what it has been from the beginning. Praveen in this context of course some criticisms have also been raised against the amnesty report while they have gone they have moved like you said from their earlier position much ahead perhaps but some aspects still missing from their larger understanding or conceptualization of Israel as a state and how it functions so could you take us to some of these as well. Well you know the whole issue is the settler colonial state the issue of the settler colonial state which is what Israel is that is not addressed in the amnesty report is what has been the criticism of it that it really stems from what was started by Christian Zionists at that time a land without people and the people without land so it's an ideal fit the whole idea that this is empty land now this is the central picture of settler colonialism as you know that effectively the entire settlement in the Americas was because it was empty we know that it was it we know it was genocide all that is known but the myth of settler colonialism or settler colonial states whether it's the Americas or in Australia has been that so this was the same myth which was first started by Christian Zionists we don't really like the Jews let's send them somewhere else okay so let's really espouse their cause by saying you guys should have a state of your own because you speak some of you speak German some of you speak English some of you speak French you should all have one state one nation and that nation should be your historical homeland which is what Israel finally became so this was the Palestine issue that there are no Palestinians this is what Goldemire said I think 1969 that this there are no Palestinians so it is theoretically or physically empty it started by claiming that it was physically empty that they discovered there is a large Arab population over there they said well you know the Arab lands are very large these people can go to other Arab countries places where Arabic people are there why can't they leave this little part of it to us so they were willing to talk them of Israeli Arabs but not Palestinians so the Palestine identity was not available to the Palestinians though they have of course called it the historical Palestine they identified it was a part of the time of a larger Ottoman empires what would be called the before the British took it over what would be called this basically Damascus governance really part of that but all of that is forgotten and if you see the founding myth of Israel that's that land without people and people without land that's that's how the Jewish population came to be settled in Israel and the Arab population was somehow wished away so this picture of the settler colonial state which is what embodies the birth of Israel and you can see why therefore over the over a period of 30 40 years and you can see 48 what the United Nations had said what finally you know if you see before the United Nations mandate you can see the hardly some settlements over there then you have the next picture which you have whether what the United Nations mandate was large parts of Palestine were actually given to Palestinians though Israel was given a significant part of it and then the next 67 war in which Gaza is cut off from West Bank and of course they take over the large parts of the they take over the entire West Bank in fact and then cut West Bank areas also significantly so this progressive growth of the Israeli state is also something which is inherent in a settler colonial outlook then you have the even now large parts of the West Bank are now essentially outposts for further land grabs which is the settler large settler population over there who then will also now claim that we are here we're half a million we're not going anywhere so this whole picture of settler colonialism and the guy the ideology of settler colonialism is not something Amnesty really addresses and what it also doesn't address which is what has also caused a lot of the unhappiness is that there have been a luck for instance even in Israel there is Bethlehem groups which have been peace groups groups fighting against this kind of apartheid state all these groups are men are basically mentioned but in footnotes but that acknowledgement of their fight against apartheid Israel is really doesn't find the place for people like us who have been in Palestine solidarity movements for a long time across the world this is a little unusual that that history does does not somehow find place in Amnesty's report I can understand that for a Western audience you know this kind of things are very difficult I remember I was once in a conference it's an event conference on Palestine and it was interesting that only people who could speak on behalf of the Palestinians were European Jews or not American Jews other other ones who supported Palestine were keeping quiet so in fact I remember going and speaking I said look as an Asian I don't have any problems we are not a party to what happened the Jews in Europe and other Christian lands so we can speak that this is colonial expression that we see what's happening in Israel and the fact that others are not able to speak about it is because their complicity against anti you know against the Jews anti-semitic oppression particularly if for a German it became really much more of a problem to speak in favor of Palestine that's why I was saying Amnesty's breaking out of the shell is good but not acknowledging that all these things were there is one of the weaknesses of the report right and Prabir since you mentioned anti-semitism finally very quickly as expected the response from the Israeli government its allies all over was to cry anti-semitism yet again at what is a very factual well documented report so this is over the years increasingly become a standard increasingly become a familiar methodology by which any critic of Israel's policy is being taught so how do you see this sort of going about well as you've talked about this anti-defamation league has come out with a statement saying this anti-semitism and of course no explanation that why it should be considered anti-semitic what is anti-semitic in the Amnesty's report are any of the incidents wrong or any of the factual evidence wrong none of the is addressed it is dismissed saying this is anti-semitism period so essentially when you can't what shall we say when you can't confront the arguments or the facts then you try to shoot the messenger and that's that's really what they're trying to do saying this Amnesty is anti-semitic anybody who says Israel is doing any of these things by definition anti-semitic as you know criticism of the Jewish state criticism of Israel as a Jewish state not of Israel per se but Israel is a Jewish state is supposed to be anti-semitic so if you do not accept that the Jews are the first citizens in Israel everybody else second-class citizen if you don't accept that apparently that's anti-semitic the semitics actually Arabs are semitics as well but it's not about language are you speaking a semitic language or not it's about your Jewishness only that is that is apparently semitic today and anybody who does not accept Israel should be a state for the Jews period that itself is anti-semitic this is what the American Defamation League statement ADL statement was all about they have they are losing the debate they're not able to give arguments what they're giving therefore is basically what would be called name calling that tar you calling you anti-semitic I don't have to confront your arguments so the fact is this is a loss of arguments and they're also too very worried about what the United Nations reports are going to be because if United Nations characterizes any of the committees characterize Israel as an apartheid state this is the stamp of the United Nations on it and reports like Amnesty will really make it much more difficult for Israel to contest this naming that might come about in the human human rights reports and investigations I think that is what worries Israel and of course what worries the anti-defamation league which is really you know what it is all about thank you so much for being that's all we have time for today keep watching news click


Righty, so we have some awesome news coming out of Dornie Park. It looks like a public notice has been sent out and due to what's going on in the world, it's gonna take place online. So actually, if you follow the instructions on the screen currently, you can actually partake in the online, I guess public notice or meeting about Dornie Park's new attraction. So that'll be Thursday, April 16th, around 7 p.m. And at 7 p.m. for the purpose of conducting a public meeting to discuss the following and other business brought before the board. It is to discuss a new attraction and either movement of a current attraction or relocation of a current attraction. I believe the Sefer train ride, they're gonna relocate a portion of that. And the new attraction will be approximately 106 feet tall, 419 feet above MSL. The project proposes a net reduction of, in pervious surface, sorry, the writing's somewhat blurry on my screen right now. The property is zoned as commercial recreation. Dornie Park is the owner and applicant. So yes, based off of what we're seeing from the blueprints which are on the screen right about now, it looks like it's going to be similar to that Gravity Group switchback roller coaster existing at another park. And it'll be 106 feet tall. It definitely looks very similar from what I understand. It uses very large concrete slabs, very similar to what you're seeing in the blueprints. I owe this to my team completely. My team and my friends figured this out. I would never have even come close to thinking that this is what it would have been. So huge thank you to my team and friends, my closest friends in our Discord call for figuring it and discussing it. But yeah, it looks like this is going to be a Gravity Group switchback, which is definitely going to be awesome for that park. I don't know the park's demographic, but I'm assuming based off of this attraction, it is a family thrill kind of park similar to Canada's Wonderland. So this would be a great fit for that park as well. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this really quick update about what Dornie Park could be getting in 2021. And yeah, comment down below what you think it could be or if you're excited about Dornie Park's 2021 edition and hopefully enjoy this video. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much guys and have a great week. Bye.


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