The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show. On this Monday, January 29th, it's been a while since we've done one of these news roundups. But I am back, back in town, back at home. And I expect to do one every day this week. And for the next few weeks, we should be back on schedule. There will be probably a change to the schedule of the evening shows. I expect to be doing an evening show today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, nothing Thursday and Friday. Again, roundups will still be there. But just so you know, probably either at 7 or 6 PM East Coast time. Probably at 7 PM East Coast time this week. So yeah, let's jump right in. A lot of stuff on the news, particularly given that I haven't done one of these in a while. But we'll try to catch up on some of the main stories. And yeah, as I said, we'll keep doing this the rest of the week. All right, the big news. I think over the weekend, it seems to wow people up. Although why this was a surprise to anybody, why anybody thought this was something unexpected, was the death of three American soldiers actually in Jordan. So on a small base on the Jordanian-Syrian-Iraqi border. So it's a three-way border. It's a three-way spot. So pretty strategic in terms of what the United States is trying to do there. And it was in a territory pretty sure of Jordan itself. Jordan is an American ally. I think the United States changed Jordanian troops. I think the United States has a presence in Jordan. Anyway, this base in Jordan, we'll get to why it's there in a minute, was hit by a drone from an Iranian-supported, an Iranian-backed, an Iranian, whatever militia. It turns out that the air defense system that the United States has that should have shot the drone down, confused this drone with an American drone and thought that it was an American drone coming back to base. These are the kind of errors, similar to friendly fire that you expect in war, that happen in war. You can't get too upset about these things in terms of the error, although I'm sure the people who committed the error would heart for them to erase it from their memory, given the three of their fellow soldiers died as a consequence. The Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and in Syria have basically been attacking US bases all over the region, now systematically, really, for decades. The Iranians were responsible for many of the deaths that the United States military incurred in Iraq. Actually starting from 2006 on, hundreds of Americans died because of the Iranian-backed militias, however you want to call them, Iranian-provided military equipment. And the whole gamut of ways in which Iran was intervening in what was going on in Iraq. This has been going on steadily, again, since the United States entered Iraq in 2003. And Iran has been trying to kill Americans systematically over the last few months since October 7. Iranians have attacked military bases over and over and over again. They've injured many American troops, but indeed, they have not killed any. The Biden administration has threatened, it's shaken its finger at them, that there would be consequences for this, but the consequences have been trivial and minor and insignificant. Iran, I mean, look, God, Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979 when they captured the American embassy and held 200, what is it? I can't remember the number, but they held the embassy personnel hostage who were only released after a deal with Ronald Reagan Cut, but a deal where the Iranians got something in return. Iranians were behind the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. They were behind the kidnapping and murder and torture of Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. Throughout the 1980s, they were then responsible for the bombing of the Koblo Tower in Saudi Arabia, which killed many dozens of Americans. Iranians have been trying to kill Americans, any American presence in the Middle East, since 1979. And they continue to do so, and nobody does anything about it. Trump killed Soleimani in January of 2020. Following that, the Iranians bombed some allied facilities, the facilities of the forces, the allied forces that were in Iraq killing three soldiers. The Trump administration didn't do anything. So this has been going on forever with almost no American president, no military standing up to the Iranians. Nothing zip nada. Biden has said that there will be a response, that the response might also target the Iranian Republican Guard, as well as the militias themselves. The Republicans, some Republicans, not all Republicans, some Republicans, are urging dramatic, significant offensive actions. We'll see what happens. My expectation is it'll be more pinpricks along the way. It's stunning. Iran has been a war with the United States in 1979. We refuse to confront that war. We refuse to do anything about that war. And the Houdis are stopping shipping in the Red Sea. We bomb a few of their sites, and we pretend we've done something, which is what the Biden administration has done so far. I expect that they will bomb some stuff that are under a lot of political pressure to do so. They'll bomb the militias in Iraq and in Syria. They'll maybe even bomb some installations of the Iranians in Iraq and in Syria. Will they bomb anything in Iran itself? I think it's unlikely that they will actually bomb something in Iran, but it is possible. It is possible. What else? Yeah, I mean, one of the things they could do that would help a number of different causes, I think, that the United States support, is how about bombing all the manufacturing facilities in which the Iranians are building drones? I mean, Iran is one of the largest manufacturers of drones right now in the world. Maybe it's only second to China, I don't know. But they build thousands of drones. They're shipping them, selling them to Russia. They're shipping them to the Houdis. They've obviously, in the past, sent them to Hamas. They're shipping them to Hezbollah. They are sending them to all the Iranian groups in Iraq and in Syria to attack the Americans. How about just not touching anybody else? All you do is you basically eviscerate every single manufacturing plant in Iran that is producing drones. Now, that would be so cool. I think that would be so cool. First of all, it would help the Ukrainians. It would help the Israelis. It would help the shipping in the Red Sea. And it would help the Americans. It would help everybody in terms of the result of it, basically crippling the ability of Iran to produce and sell these drones.  And that is worth doing it. So that's what I would do, among many other things.  I've told you that's relatively easy, because it's all concentrated in one place. That would be relatively easy to take that out completely. And if you just do those two things, I'm not sure the Iranian regime survives over a very long. Well, the third you have to do as well is take out their nuclear facilities. Take out everything where they produce nuclear stuff. So we will see. But those are the three things I would do. Oil, drones, nuclear. If it was me, let's be serious here. If it was actually me, I would also take out the regime from the air, bomb all regime facilities and take out as many of them as possible, Khomeini and the whole Iranian power structure. And then let those girls, how about let those girls who demonstrated so bravely a year ago, let them take over the regime in Iran. That would be my solution, but I don't expect that. How about Biden? The drone factories, that's a simple one. It's not that hard. It's pretty straightforward. It was a drone, an Iranian-made drone, that killed those Americans doing it. One other comment, I want to make one other topic related to this, and that is the question of the presence of Iranian troops in the region. If you remember, Trump promised to bring all the troops from Syria home. I mean, he made that promise several times. American troops are still in Syria. And the fact is that American troops are constantly being attacked in Syria. American troops are still in Iraq. And as you can see, American troops are in Jordan. The supposed reason American troops are there is to be able to take out ISIS, to control ISIS, and al-Qaeda, and anybody else in that region. It's also the case that American troops are there. I think they're still involved in training Iraqi military or whatever. Who knows why? These are troops that America has now in 100 different countries, all in the name of dealing with global terrorism, global Islamic terrorism. We've got troops all over Africa. We've got troops all over Asia, all with this idea of dealing with Islamic terrorism. I've said this over and over again over the years. Bring these troops home, particularly given that we're not willing to defend them, particularly given that we have no strategy to defeat our enemies. If we had a strategy to defeat Islamic terrorism, and these troops were necessary as part of that strategy to deploy all over the world, and we had an end date, and this was going to be a program and a strategy. And we're going to take them out and done with it. Then I'd say, yeah, keep them. That's fine. But there's no strategy. These are sitting ducks in foreign countries. They take out ISIS, al-Qaeda, operatives here and there. They help the locals fight the Islamists here and there. Not a part of the broad strategy. No willingness to engage with the real villains, the ones who are really promoting, funding, supporting Islamic terrorism. We pretend that Qatar is a friend, Qatar who funded ISIS, who probably is funding al-Qaeda. Many, many, many countries are funding al-Qaeda. There's al-Qaeda in Africa. Where does that come from? Who funds them? Shall I guess? Maybe Iran, maybe Saudi Arabia, certain foundations in Saudi Arabia, maybe the Qataris, maybe the Kuwaitis, maybe some others. Where the money is? The money is in the Gulf states. So let's stop pretending that we're fighting a global war on terrorism, which we should fight because it's going to kill us. We should fight it. But we're not doing it. We're pretending to do it. And all we do is place our kids in danger and they get killed like they did over the weekend for no reason, for absolutely no reason. So bring them home. Bring them home or engage in a proper war to eradicate Islamic authoritarianism, totalitarianism, not authoritarianism, totalitarianism. 23 years ago, 23 years ago, unbelievable, right? In 2001 after 9-11, Congress passed a AUMF, right? AUMF, which was not exactly a declaration of war, but it was basically an approval that Congress graved the president to do whatever he thought was necessary, deploy troops wherever he thought was necessary in order to combat global terrorism. It wasn't even Islamic terrorism because they were afraid to name Islam. So the AUMF, it was the authorization for military action. They purposely did not call it a war. I say repeal it. I'm not sure it's constitutional to begin with. Congress is supposed to approve the wars. It's supposed to declare wars. Ideally, you repeal it and declare war on Islamic totalitarianism. You list organizations and the countries that are responsible, and you wipe them out. Yes, this was an authorization for military force, which means nothing. This should be an authorization, a war declaration. But then it has to be bounded. It has to be clearly defined. Who are going to war with and what are the goals and what does victory look like? But that's what we refuse to do. And kids are dying, continue to die, because we refuse to do it. All right, let me just thank Applejack. Thank you, Applejack, Andre, Belgalt, and Art Lens Design. Thank you, guys, for the stickers. Really, really appreciate the stickers. Oh, so I noticed this, too. Somebody's just posting here that they noticed that Alex Friedman has taken down his post, announcing his decision for the Israel debate with Destiny and Finkelstein. He's taken down that post saying that that's what the debate would look like. I'm curious why. Who knows? Maybe Destiny didn't want to debate Finkelstein. Maybe somebody else raised the lockers. Who knows what exactly is going on there? But as far as I can tell, the decision in terms of who is debating whom is still not being determined, we will see what happened. Maybe you listen to your book show and I said Destiny is not right. Destiny's not your gut. I doubt it. I doubt that he's taking advice from me about this. Maybe that would be nice. All right, next story. And again, we're stuck in the Middle East. Over the weekend, Israeli officials passed on to the United States evidence, and the New York Times has received this evidence, evidence that UN, the UNRA, the refugee organization responsible for Palestinian refugees. No, there is another UN agency responsible for all global refugees all over the world. UNRA is responsible just for Palestinian refugees. That's the only function of this organization. Now note, too, that UNRA was founded in 1949, right after the war of independence of the Israeli war of independence after the Nakabah, right, when Palestinian refugees, the first Palestinian refugees as a consequence of the establishment of the state of Israel. And they've been refugees since 1948. And the UN has been aiding them and assisting them to stay refugees since 1948. Note that every other refugee group in the world, what the UN's responsibility vis-a-vis those refugees is to resettle them. It's to resettle them. And after a certain period of time, it's clear that that resettlement will probably not happen where you came from. Forget it. That's gone. Keep on living. Not with the Palestinians. The Palestinians have been basically kept as refugees since 1948. The Palestinians have been denied resettlement. They're treated horribly by the countries in which the refugee camps exist. And Arab money, as it flows into various causes, refuses to flow into resettling these people as citizens. They could be citizens of Jordan. They could be citizens of Lebanon. They could be citizens in Syria, in Egypt, and all any one of these countries. And if these countries refuse to accept them, and if they do accept them, they segregate them into refugee camps and keep them there without citizenship, without rights, without ID cards, completely dependent on the United Nations. And the United Nations does nothing, nothing, to try to get these people to integrate into the countries that are hosting them, or even to move them out of these countries into countries that might be willing to host. So the United Nation is an immoral criminal organization. It has been forever. But UNRWA is particularly evil because of the way it has dealt with the Palestinians, the way it has kept them around as refugees. Evil in the way they treat Palestinians and what they've done to the Palestinian people. And then on top of that, or one of the reasons for keeping them refugees, is so that they are always, always dangled in front of these railies. As a sin, Israel has committed, something Israel must do something about. If suddenly the refugees, the Palestinian refugees, get settled and everything is OK with them, I think if they're settled and everything is OK with them, then the whole issue goes away. What UNRWA has kept alive is this idea of a right of return, this idea that they will once, one day settle in Israel in a sense by replacing the Israeli Jewish population. So UNRWA is already evil just for that. But then this report from the Israelis passed on to the Biden administration, leaked by the New York Times, shows that UNRWA employees were actively involved on October 7th in the massacre. They were involved in kidnapping women. They were involved in helping Hamas stage the attack. They were involved in working, killing, in killing Israeli citizens, in facilitating Hamas, helping Hamas, working with Hamas. But they were actively in Israel. There's actually cell phone evidence of UNRWA employees crossing the border out of Gaza and into Israel. So they were active on October 7th. They were part of this evil. And of course, their salaries are funded by you.  I think Germany and the UK and France all give huge quantities of money to UNRWA.  On top of that, this has been known. UNRWA's involvement with Hamas has been known for years. UNRWA's responsible for the schools in the Gaza Strip, in the refugee camps in Lebanon and elsewhere in the West Bank. And we know what they teach. They teach hatred of Israel. They teach veneration to the martyrs, to suicide bombers. They've been teaching this hatred for years and years and years. We know that UNRWA's schools were bases for Hamas, were launch pads for missiles into Israel, were places in which Hamas was hiding. One school, the floor above the school, was completely boober-trapped. In another case, we know that one Israeli hostage was kept in a home of an UNRWA employee. Add to that that evidence of discussion, this is going to be presented I think in front of Congress tomorrow, a chat group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers, where they discuss all kinds of stuff like when are they going to get their salaries, also includes messages, photos, and videos celebrating Hamas, celebrating the massacre of October 7th, and other acts of terrorism if you go back far enough. In other words, 249,000 user posts in this chat group, many of them, a celebration of death and destruction. So UNRWA has been working with Hamas. It is an evil organization. It is one more evil to add on to the list of evil things the United Nations does. The United Nations should be shut down. It should be shipped off to Caracas or to, I don't know. You pick the spot in hell where we can ship the UN to and make it its base. It certainly should not be on a prime real estate in New York City. The UN represents everything the opposite of America and New York. I think that's a horrific story. The Biden administration has stopped funding UNRWA as of this weekend, as have many European countries. Norway stands out as somebody who is a one country that said they will not cease funding. Who knows why? Of course, the guilt card is played.  What will happen to their children? Well, it's better they get no schooling than they get schooling in Hamas propaganda. In 2018, Trump, one of the positive acts that he did, suspended funding for UNRWA. He funded UNRWA in 2017. In 2018, the Trump administration was trying to rage a deal with Israel and the Palestinians. Trump administration was actively involved in trying to establish a Palestinian state. Not under terms that they viewed as friendly to Israel, but those active negotiations that, what's his name? Trump's son-in-law was engaged in. He was shuttling back and forth to Islam. He was meeting with the Palestinian leadership. And in order to put pressure on the Palestinians to engage in the negotiations and to compromise, the Trump administration stopped funding Jared Kushner, stopped funding UNRWA, stopped funding the support for refugees. Remember, this is also a time where Trump had a great national security adviser. I think one of the better national security advisers we've had in the last 30, 40, 50 years, I don't know. And that's John Bolton, which everybody in the Republican Party now hates. So they were tough. They were tough. And pressure. And John Bolton knows exactly what the UN is. He served in the UN, like Nikki Haley. He never got a permanent appointment because Congress refused to appoint him because he was too controversial, too good. John Bolton knows what UNRWA is because he is a foreign policy expert. Everybody pretty much knows what UNRWA is, but he has the courage of his convictions. And as a consequence, because of the influence of Bolton, the Trump administration stopped funding UNRWA. One of the first things that Biden did in coming into office was restarting the funding. What they've done now, they suspended the funding. But what's different now from 2018 is so have many countries in Europe. UNRWA basically is bankrupt. The head of the UN, a horrible human being and a real monster of a human being. The head of the UN is begging. I'll begging that countries start funding UNRWA again. Otherwise, I'll have to shut it down. And the poor kids are going to starve. No money for UNRWA should be the push right now. And hopefully that'll hold. Hopefully that'll hold. All right. Talk about more stuff in the Middle East. Last story from the Middle East, I think, yes. Last story in the Middle East. The United States has just announced that it will supply or sell Turkey 40 F-16 fighter jets, as well as upgrade kits for dozens of other F-16s that the Turks already have. That is, it upgraded to a state-of-the-art F-16 standards. This is all part of, if you remember, I think it was last week or the week before last. I talked about this. Turkey's voted to approve NATO membership for Sweden. This sale of F-16s to Turkey has been long coming. It's been negotiated over many years. Nobody has really opposed this. And they were supposed to get the F-16s over a year ago, but the Biden administration halted the sale of the F-16s as part of putting pressure on Turkey to approve Sweden and Finland into NATO. If you remember, Turkey refused to approve that partially because it's somewhat friendly with Putin and partially because they don't like Sweden's attitude towards the Kurds and what the Turkish consider terrorist groups in Turkey. Sweden has reformed their terrorism laws. Sweden has also passed a law to ban the burning of the Quran as part of this appeasement of Turkey. And now the United States is delivering the F-16s. Turkey, in the meantime, has approved NATO membership. Now the only country holding up NATO membership for Sweden is Hungary. But the Hungarian obon said, I think it was a week ago, that they would approve it soon and that Sweden would become a member of NATO. Let me just say, I've said this before, no matter what happens in Ukraine, basically from a strategic perspective, Russia lost this war as soon as Finland and Sweden became NATO members. I mean, Sweden and Finland are substantially more important than Ukraine for NATO. They have significant militaries. Sweden has a significant military-industrial base. They build weapons systems, including tanks and airplanes. And having them as part of NATO is a huge win. Finland, of course, has a very long border with Russia and a military that has fought the Russians, granted, a very long time ago, but it fought the Russians and a military and a people very, very, very much committed to fighting the Russians if it ever happens. So the fact that Sweden and Finland have joined NATO, Sweden will join NATO soon, is excellent, strengthens NATO dramatically, and is a strategic loss, dramatic strategic loss for Putin. But it will happen, and it will happen very soon. All right, let's see, what else do we have? Talk about Ukraine. God, I'm surprising, I think, to anybody who actually knows Ukraine and knows what goes on there. Ukraine has just uncovered a mass fraud in weapons procurement. This is not weapons procurement from the United States. This is $40 million that were allocated for buying shells that were paid to a Ukrainian defense contractor, who then supposedly was going to outsource this and bring in the shells. And it turns out that the money was delivered, and the shells were never delivered. And there were five people within the Ministry of Defense, including managers of the military supplier, Lviv Arsenal, that pocketed the money. The money is being moved around, and it's in foreign bank accounts and so on. But sadly, I think, as anybody again who knows, is there is significant corruption in Ukraine. And attacking Ukraine for corruption is a good thing. Having the United States carefully monitor how any kind of money it sends Ukraine is used is an important thing. Ukraine now, on several occasions, has prosecuted people for corruption related to the war effort. Hope they keep doing it. Hope the Ukrainians keep cleaning house. I hope the Americans help them by monitoring how the money is deployed, how the money is used within Ukraine. Primarily, the US can help by just deploying weapons rather than deploying money. Don't give them dollars, give them shells, tank shells. So we will see Ukraine continuing, I think, to try to clean house, particularly if it wants to get EU membership and ultimately NATO membership. It's going to have to show a pretty clean slate. It will have to show limited corruption, significant limitations on corruption. And I think Ukraine's engaged in these efforts to try to do exactly that. Some of the Republican excuses for not helping out Ukraine in the war or Ukraine's corrupt, any help we give them is siphoned up. Again, there is an element of truth. That's why it's an argument that seems to work on people. But A, it's not reason enough to let Putin win. And B, Ukraine can do a better job, can do a job, and the United States can do a better job in making sure that that corruption does not affect US aid, does not apply to the aid that comes in from the United States. All right, let's talk about LNG. The United States is the number one exporter of liquefied natural gas in the world. That happened in 2023. It surpassed Qatar and Australia. It shipped 91.2 million metrics of ton of LNG across the world. A big reason why Europe is managing, in spite of the fact that it is not getting natural gas from Russia, is because of liquefied natural gas that is produced in the United States, that is pumped out of the ground in the United States, turned into a liquid and loaded onto ships in the US. The United States has built a large number of liquefied natural gas export terminals. Right now, the United States has seven, and they have five more under construction. The US has unlimited, almost a number of such natural gas. There's a huge amount of natural gas that it can deploy for this. Its main market, or one of its biggest markets, is obviously Europe. Sadly, it can't actually deliver the LNG to any American port because of the Jones Act, but we can certainly export it to places like Europe. And again, this has been a lynchpin in the strategy of Europe to manage without natural gas from Russia. This massive expansion of LNG and becoming number one LNG exporter has all happened under Biden's watch. Indeed, the United States is the largest producer of fossil fuels right now in the world. It produces more oil than any country in all of human history has ever produced, 13.3 million barrels a day. And it's interesting because this is both an asset and liability for Biden when he's accused by Trump in debates or whatever, if there are any debates, of clamping down on energy. He can say, no, under me, we're producing more oil than we produced under Trump or under anybody, any country, ever. And we're the number one exporter of LNG. But the problem for him is that if he says that, all of which is true, and I think gets him the votes of independents and others, it alienates young people. It alienates climate change activists, primarily the young. It alienates people on his left who are already alienated because of his support for Israel. So he is stuck as part of unsticking himself, I guess, and he announced today, this morning, I think, or yesterday, he announced that they are freezing the permitting of new liquefied natural gas assets, new liquefied natural gas export terminals. This is, of course, as a result, we've talked about this on the show, actually, of environmentalists, activists trying to convince them that natural gas is particularly liquefied natural gas because this methane, I guess, released when the gas is turned into a liquid, something like that, they argue, is really, really damaging in terms of CO2. This is a consequence of that. Now, he's not stopping the export of liquefied natural gas. He's not taking away permits, not for the terminals that exist, and not for the five that are under construction. All this is really freezing future construction. Temporarily, he claims, while they look into it. Now, that's tragic enough. But you have to understand this again, so much of everything that happens over the next few months. He saw this with immigration that I talked about yesterday. It's all about politics. It's all about perception. This is all about showing his base, showing those kids on the left, young people on the left, that no, no, no, he's clamping down, even though it does nothing to reduce the 91.2 million metric tons. Indeed, I expect 2024 to exceed 91.2. We'll export much more than 91.2 in 2024. But he'll be able to say, look, I froze it. We're looking at it. They might be more in the future. I haven't abandoned the climate agenda. I'm all with you on the climate agenda. Well, at the same time, going to independence, wink, wink. Yeah, but we're the number one exporter of LNG, and we're producing more oil than we ever have. Now, whether he can get away with that, dualism, who knows. Again, the number one asset that Biden has going into this election is not young people. It's not his position on anything. It's not his Asian experience. That's a liability. The only asset, I think, that Biden has, really, the only asset he has, because he doesn't have many, the only asset Biden has is Donald Trump. That's it. If it wasn't Donald Trump running against him, he would lose, I think, in a frigging landslide. He just doesn't have. The left is willing to abandon him. The radical left. And the Jews are looking at Israel and stuff, and they don't want to have anything to do with the radical left. I think they'd be open, certainly, to Nikki Haley, to voting for somebody alternative to Trump. And independents don't really want Biden. He's senile. He's completely lost it. He's clueless. Why would you vote for him? The only reason to vote for Trump, the only reason to vote for Biden is Trump. And it's the only chance, the only chance he has to win is if he runs against Donald Trump, which it looks like he will. So we'll get to see Donald Trump losing. I think losing again. We'll see. I mean, he might not, because he's running against Biden. So who knows? Two unbelievable losers. All right, finally, we've covered this quite a bit over time, the real estate collapse in China, the real difficulties that real estate developers are having in China. And Everglade, which started this all off, really, the Everglade group, is now being ordered by a judge in Hong Kong, basically to liquidate. So what you're going to see is this massive, huge company that at some point was valued, what was they valued? It managed to amass, not that they were valued, managed to amass $300 billion worth of liabilities. And they are going to have to, they're going to liquidate the whole thing. It shares down 99% from its peak, that is, and bonds, which usually trade at 100, and now trading at about a buck. Sorry, it's less than two cents, right? Less than two cents. So here is a company that's been eviscerated because of the insanity of the real estate market in China, the Chinese government used real estate, and in a sense, a pyramid scheme within real estate to artificially ramp up their GDP numbers, ramp up the sense of wealth and success. Everglade, sorry, not Everglade, Everglade, Evergrande, something like that, they used these real estate companies and these real estate projects to beef up the perceived wealth of the Chinese people. That has collapsed completely, and is in free fall. Evergrande is the first, they're going to be others, and it's going to be interesting to see how this liquidation happens, who is in charge of the liquidation, and what prices, and who buys these assets. Other real estate companies are also in liquidation in China, smaller, much smaller than this, but again, nothing really is happening. Part of the problem is that if you start liquidating these real estate companies, the valuations in real estate come down, and then you start looking at other real estate companies that seem OK somehow under current valuations, but under liquidation valuations, maybe also bankrupt, and so the Chinese government might have a strong incentive not to liquidate very quickly and to wait. All right, the Chinese economy, generally, broadly, we'll keep talking about this, is in deep economic trouble and is economically struggling significantly. All right, I think that a lot of the Chinese all right, I think that that does it. Let's see, let me remind you all that you can support the Iran Book Show by providing monthly support at IranBookShow.com slash membership or on Patreon or on Subscribestar, but Patreon is a great way to to do it. 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Thank you, Mary Eileen. Stephen, thank you. Let's see. Ryan, thank you. Gail, thank you. An anonymous user, thank you. And we did the outlines design, so I think we're all caught up. All right, let's see. Mary Eileen says, thank you for the fantastic talk in defense of Israel. My pleasure. Thank you for all the support. Thank you for having my back on all these issues and all these controversies. All right, let's do a Sivano. Sivano says, whoot, return of the news. Yes. Thank you, Sivano, for being a consistent, steady supporter of the on-book show and particularly the news show. So thanks, Sivano. Ryan, if Biden drops out of the race and the dams nominate Michelle Obama, is it possible that she becomes the authoritarian authoritarian precipitated by Trump's influence? She may be of the left, but it makes me nervous all the same. No, I don't think so. I don't think there's any reason to believe that Michelle Obama is that authoritarian. I mean, Michelle Obama is, again, a D1, maybe bordering on D2, like her husband was. Ds are not Ams. They're not the authoritarians that you would expect. They're disintegrators. They can't unite. And just imagine the right going out of the plectic. The whole point of the dem hypothesis is that, as I understand it, is that the left, the egalitarian left, the D2s, the complete disintegration, the D2s are so disintegrated, so disintegrated, that they create chaos and they create destruction, they create anarchy. And as a consequence, they make it possible for an authoritarian to come and unite the country. It's important that the authoritarian present himself as a uniter, not as a divider. So D2 and Nihilists, they can't unite, they can't put anything together because they're D, they're disintegrators. So what you need is an M, somebody who is a misintegrated, integrated around something wrong. And what that misintegration is, Leonard speculates that it's somebody who wraps around, you know, is across and a flag, and I agree with him. I think it's across and a flag and maybe environmentalism roped in. But the society has to get to such a point where everything is fragmented, everything's falling apart, that even the leftist supports the new authoritarian. Think of the Nazis. Think of Hitler. What he does once he gets into power and how he unites the left and the right through his authoritarianism. And that is only made possible because of the complete fragmentation and disintegration of the Weimar Republic. And therefore people searching and looking. And if they can't find it in communism, because many of the Nazis started out communists, then they'll shift to being Nazis because there's not that much difference in policy.  What they're seeking is some kind of thing they can believe in and be told what to do. You should all read the ominous parallels by Leonard Peacock. And those of you interested in digging further should read the dim hypothesis by Leonard Peacock. But the ominous parallels is happening. You can see it around us. Dim gives it an epistemological basis in terms of how to look at it and how to try to predict where we're heading. That's what I try to do. I know some of you don't agree with my analysis. That's fine. Leonard Peacock might not agree with my analysis. That's fine too. We are in objectivism, not a cult. I have a feeling though that if I sat down with Peacock and we talked it out, I think we'd agree in the end. Shazba, what do you think of the following talking point? The best way to make fill in the blank more affordable is to make everything more affordable. I think that's true. I think that's true, particularly if you can guarantee everything more affordable. Then yes, it's to increase the purchasing power of your dollar and it's to make components more affordable. It's to make, I mean, except wages. Wages should not be more affordable.  Yeah, I think that makes sense. Okay, James, one of my colleagues just flew into Boston to visit and noticed homeless people sleeping in and around the airport, which is weird because Boston is cold. Is it a security risk to have homeless people or migrants sleeping there? I don't know near the airport. Why is it security risk? I don't know why it's security risk. There's no threat from the airport. There's no threat that the homeless people, I mean, it's only if the homeless people are dangerous and then they're dangerous anyway. I don't know why them hanging out around an airport is a risk. It's probably a little warmer around the airport because of the jets flying in and out. Maybe that's why they sleep there rather than in Boston, but I don't know why they would be there. I don't know why anybody homeless would be in Boston. Start hiking south. Yeah, no idea. Larry says, your speech in Austin was magnificent. Thank you, Larry. You really, really appreciate that. Please, please, please share, share, share. And if you anybody, if you know anybody who's willing to invite me to come and give that speech anywhere, to a social group, a campus club, a university, anything, then please, you know, friends of the IDF meeting, then please have them contact me and I would love to do it. It's a shame to have a talk like that and just do it once. It would be great to right now do a tour around the United States defending Israel. But for that, we need people who are willing to host me and we need people who need to fund the tour. I think I can get the funding to the tour. It's the people who want to host me is the challenge right now. So hopefully we can find some people to host me and we can make that happen. Eyal says, why is it always the evil countries that have all the oil and gas? Well, the United States has more oil and gas than anybody or at least is producing more oil and gas than anybody. And it's not evil. There's a lot of oil and gas in France, or at least you need a frack to get it. A lot of oil and gas in the UK, a lot of oil and gas in Ukraine and in probably in Germany. The good guys won't drill for it. They won't seek it out. There's a ton of oil and gas in Canada. There's a ton of oil and gas in Alaska. Oh, Argentina, huge basin where you could frack and produce oil and gas, huge quantities for 100 years or more in Argentina. But you have to be willing to drill. You have to be willing to go for it. And the best way to do that is to assign property rights to mineral minerals. So assign people mineral rights. And then suddenly the incentives change and the people living there actually want you to drill. Remember today, every country except the United States and the world, the mineral rights, therefore the profits from the minerals all go to the government. They don't go to the individuals on whose property the mineral is found, which is a travesty. James says, what do you see happening in finance in the next few years in London and Singapore? Do you think Singapore will finally overtake London? It has been number three as a financial center for many years by most metrics and lists. I think it very well could overtake London partially because I think that Hong Kong is in decline and a lot of Asia will move to Singapore. I think Singapore also could be a bridge to India, not only to China where it already does business, but also to India because it's kind of on the way to India. And of course the relatively growing economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, which are all in that area. So I do think Singapore has a chance of overtaking London. London though I expect to remain strong, not because of anything except that it has immense talent. It has a huge network. There is a massive networking effect of everybody being in one location, a lot of smart people in particular industry being in one location like Silicon Valley. And London has had that historically and even though it's at a big disadvantage now because of Brexit, relative to the advantages it had before Brexit, it still is a very, very powerful financial market and I think still maintains itself. But it is gonna be challenged because of Brexit and we'll lose some of its business because of Brexit. Singapore I think benefits from the decline of Hong Kong. All right, Robert, last night's show was especially good. Oh, I heard it live or multi-tasking and then listen a second time this morning while shopping. Nice that the episode got high super chat dollars you earned it. Thank you, I really, really appreciate it. Yes, and it was nice. We did very, very well in super chat last night. So thank you, Robert. 2046, what do you say to the we shouldn't have been there kind of response? Well, I talked about that, but we shouldn't be there but it doesn't matter, neither should Iran. That is, it wasn't Jordanian killing us because we're in Jordanian land. It wasn't even, you know, it was Iranians. And Iran has no business there. So my point is this, it doesn't matter whether you should or shouldn't have been there. Americans are killed. It is the responsibility of the United States government to protect them. And in this case, the United States government put them there. Now you could argue they shouldn't have been there and I agree, given the lack of strategy, I disagree given that I think there should be a strategy and that, you know, we need to have a strategy against the terrorizing nations of the Middle East. It's sad that we don't. But it doesn't matter. The reality is Iran has killed Americans. It needs to pay a price.  Should have been there, shouldn't have been there is irrelevant, don't touch us. And if we'd responded appropriately in 79 or in 83, or in 85, or in 89, none of this would be happening right now. The whole Middle East would be a different place. So do it. Yeah, I mean, as one of FEMA said, this is in the chat, American military is thereby the invitation of Jordan. Not that I think that's an excuse. There's still no strategy. And therefore you don't put people in harm's way without one. But Jordan is very concerned about ISIS and al-Qaeda infiltrating its east. Its east is just desert. That nobody lives there. Just huge swaths of desert. And it borders both Syria and Iraq and all the challenges there. And I think part of the alliance between the United States and Jordan, Jordan has asked America to be there in order to help protect it from al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other Iranian forces. Christian says, what is your opinion of Dr. Dan Suftan from Haifa? I find him quite interesting as an intellectual and he's often really funny. I have to admit, I don't know him. So I'm gonna copy paste and look him up. But I don't know him. Thanks Christian. Ryan says, with minds everywhere to like the show, share the show, live your life using your mind to pursue your rational values. Like the show guys, there's, I don't know how many likes there are, way less than views. So it really helps the algorithm if we like to show. I know the Godzilla movie, I know, I know, I know. I'm waiting for it to be streamed. I'm waiting for it to be streamed. I've got a really nice setup at home. I don't think I'll lose much by watching it when it streams. But get one of the streaming companies to start streaming it and I'll watch it. Henry Hammond says, how does Nikki Haley compare to other Republicans in the past, except Trump? Like the presidential candidates in 16, 2012 and 2008. She's better than all of them. She's better than all of them. She's much better than Bush. She's not some mealy mouth, compassionate, conservative. I don't think Nikki Haley has any problem after 9-11 blaming Islamic terrorism. Islamic radicals, jihadis, Islamic totalitarians, like Bush freaked out and couldn't say the word Islam, called it a religion of peace and invited them all to pray at the White House during Ramadan. Right after 9-11, a month after 9-11, unbelievable. She's much better than Bush. McCain was nothing and nobody and in the middle of the road, that was awful. It was not Obama. That was Trump. Sorry, it wasn't Obama or Trump, it was Bush. Bush called Islam a religion of peace. Bush hijacked by bad people. Bush invited them to celebrate the Ramadan in October, 2001, in the White House. I know, because I was commenting on it as it was happening. Don't give me that BS. Bush wouldn't say Islamic terrorism. Now he said one week, one week. I can't remember what year it was. He used the term Islamic fascism other than that, he never said Islamic terrorism ever. Bush is the culprit, not Obama. Obama was just following up on Bush. There was no change in that policy. So Nikki Haley is much better on foreign policy. She's tough. She was excellent as a UN ambassador. She's excellent now on her delivery. She's the only candidate who actually has written about wanting to preserve capitalism and wanting to enhance capitalism. She's the only candidate who has talked about cutting government spending, so cutting government spending. So yeah, she's better than McCain. She's better than Romney. She's better than Trump. She's better than Bush by a long shot. I think you'd have to go back a long time to find a better candidate. Certainly, I mean, Ronald Reagan was the last good Republican. She's better than every single Republican other than Ronald Reagan in recent times. So I'm all for, you know, she has problems. Her thing about no anonymous posts on social media is absurd and ridiculous and borderline fascist. She had a few other, what she said about the civil war was terrible. Yeah, I was just saying that. So she has some really bad positions, again, particularly on anonymity and social media. But, and I think those are unconstitutional anyway. I don't think it's the government can step in and eliminate anonymity, particularly when the federalist papers were written anonymously. But, you know, again, she is good on all these other things in a way that others have not been good on them. And given the alternative is Trump, she is way ahead in my view. Anonymous user, absolutely horrific abolish the UN. Absolutely, Ryan says abolish the UN. Thank you, Ryan. Henry, on page 81, Eddie talked to Galt, which no one knew at the time. And he said that everything depends on power and the engine. And then he said to Galt, why are you laughing? A nice detail, yes, it is a nice detail. And who said Iran didn't have a sense of humor, right? Yeah, it all depends on energy, right? Anonymous user says, keep up the Ukrainian updates. It's very important. Will do. James, how will the Chinese economy slowing down more and more each month, impact manufacturing in the US and Southeast Asia? I mean, it's not that it's slowing down. It's hard to tell what's exactly happening. Actually, manufacturing is going up. Other parts of the economy are collapsing. I think the fact that China is shifting again after it tried to shift away from manufacturing and shifting towards manufacturing, towards increasing dramatically manufacturing, is actually going to lower prices. It's actually going to cause problems for manufacturers around the world because they're going to be competing against a desperate China trying to get its manufacturing back on track. So I think it's going to be difficult for other parts of Southeast Asia and manufacturers around the world to compete against China at least with regard to cheap goods, low margin goods, because China is trying to beef that up right now in an effort to inflate the economy or reverse the damage being done by the investment sector collapsing and the real estate site collapsing. Note that stock market in China was in freefall in spite of the government's effort to try to beef it up, to try to underpin it by subsidizing people buying stocks. I am Mika wants to flatten Gaza. Maria Lien says, thank you for a fantastic talk in defense of Israel. I appreciate it, Maria Lien. James, have you given any talks in Scotland or only Ukraine? No, I've given many talks really only at one university, I think, in Scotland. I'm trying to think. Yeah, I think I've given talks in Edinburgh on a number of different occasions. Several at the University of Edinburgh and then one as part of something called the Free Market Roadshow in Edinburgh a few years ago. So, yes, I have given talks in Scotland. Happy to do more. Shelley, are you going to talk about the defunding of UNRWA? Great news if you ask me. Yeah, it is great news and I talked about it like 30 minutes ago. So rewind the show and it's right there. I did talk about it. All right, everybody, thank you. I appreciate it. Of course, it's only good news if it holds. Let's see if all these countries have the stamina, have the, it will be able to withstand the pressure coming in from the United Nations and everybody else and the guilt that's placed on them. All right, everybody, I will see you tonight, 7 p.m. East Coast time. Yes, 7 p.m. East Coast time today. Tonight, I'll let you know what the topic is later.


Welcome to world's best videos we've come by the list of facts about YouTube's sensation of diamond minecart Let's get into it Daniel Andrew Middleton are better known as Dan TDM was born on November 8th 1991 in Aldershaw, England He is currently 25 years old and resides in Wellingborough, England Growing up he had a rough childhood his parents decided to divorce and his family would constantly be moving around This is due to his father being in the military so wherever his father was stationed they would go along as well He is the eldest child in the family. He has a younger brother that is two and a half years younger He attended Northampton University to pursue higher education He studied music production and got a degree in that field Unfortunately, he never actually became a music producer because he pursued YouTube instead The first console he got was a Super Nintendo When he was in university he used the name Pokemon Dan level 45 as his name to create a YouTube channel He would mainly do unwrappings of Pokemon cards and a post videos of him doing playthroughs of Pokemon He fell in love with the game because it allowed him to travel because he would participate in tournaments Pokemon also made him feel smart because it was full of strategy and thinking He first started dating his wife Jenna in 2009 They grew up together after Dan's family moved to his current town and they were in the same friend group When he was 18 years old him and Jenna decided to move out together They eventually got married on March 17 2013. He said it was the most amazing memory of his life With the convincing of his girlfriend. He took the big risk to quit his current job to pursue YouTube full-time He created his channel on July 14th 2012 and his channel is known for mainly posting Minecraft He has accumulated over 9 billion views and has over 14.9 million subscribers He posts daily and his videos average over a million views and over 30,000 likes Then is also popular on social media amassing over 950,000 followers on Twitter across the 659 posts on Instagram. He has 2.3 million followers while only following 51 people his verified Facebook page has over 900,000 likes and 900,000 people are subscribed to it as well Daniel has gained a huge following among children earning him multiple kid choice awards in 2016 in 2016 he also released his first book called trace and the enchanted crystal The book reimagined the Minecraft style worlds and characters He's created it like you've never seen them before the book was so popular It was awarded the number one Amazon bestseller and the number one New York Times bestseller Well that concludes the video guys Hopefully you guys didn't enjoy the video and if you did remember to smack that like button Let us know in the comment section below which would like to see you next and if you haven't already subscribed Please do subscribe to keep up with the worlds best videos


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Y graf ystod y gallwn iddyn nhw i paesiaf gyfas BMW i ddiwedd y bwysigifiadau i gael I called Edward Mountain. Mae gwerth aglŷn I ask maen nhw i ddfinnu'r cwestiynaeth a'n ddodolygu'r i gydag bod ni'n defnyddio sydd mewn olygau i gael i gael i gael i amddalol i gael efoesiaf o'r llunsoch. I beth wrth ei ddoch i'r gofo'r eraill, ysgrifennu yn cydyddasio'n gweithredu by the chair of the Regulatory Review Group regarding its proposed Heat in Buildings Bill. Minister Patrick Harvie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As part of delivering the new deal for business, we asked the Regulatory Review Group to examine the business and regulation impact of our proposals for a Heat in Buildings Bill, which is central to our work to tackle climate change. We welcome the independent views of the group, along with all the submissions of the consultation which closed on Friday. The group has highlighted the economic opportunity for Scotland in transitioning to clean heat and identified key issues around communications, supply chain and phasing on which we continue to work as we develop the bill. Edward Mountain. Probably not how I read it, Minister. What I read was unrealistic deadlines, no knowledge of the extent of the issue, unawareness of the ability of the market readiness and total incomprehension of costs to householders and businesses. Given that at the moment, only 20 per cent of the properties now on the market in Caithness reach EPCC, how does the Minister estimate that it will cost individual homeowners to reach EPCC? Well, as part of our consultation on the energy efficiency standards, we have proposed a simpler approach to achieving those energy efficiency standards, as Mr Mountain knows, based on applying only those measures from a prescribed list of measures that are applicable in each building. We are confident that in the large majority of buildings that do not currently reach EPCC, the measures required would be relatively minimal and cost effective. Obviously, as we go forward in the heat and buildings bill and the regulations that will follow, we will continue to keep our existing very generous package of grants and loans under constant review to make sure that the support available for people, householders, tenants, landlords and businesses matches the scale of the necessity of acting on reducing our emissions from heat and buildings. Edwin Mountain. Yes, I am aware of those five items that the suggested minister and you also suggested that you'd put a price cap on it. Well, let me help you if you're living in a two-bedroom drawer or property of traditional design and maybe 30 to 40 years old as a surveyor, I can tell you, I estimate the cost to get it to EPCC and to meet your requirements is in the region of £40,000. I'll repeat that, £40,000. So I'm concerned minister that you haven't really grasped the reality of the costs of the problem and you don't really care at this stage what the cost of business and homeowners will be. Will you commit to a tighter spending cap than £40,000 to homeowners to each EPCC and what do you consider minister to be a reasonable amount? We've set out, as I've said, proposals for making this easier, simpler and cheaper for householders and businesses to reach the standards that are set out in the proposals we've consulted on. We'll take account of all of the responses to the consultation and we'll continue, as Mr Mountain is aware, to consider the option of a cost cap. But I'm concerned, Presiding Officer, that Mr Mountain and some of his colleagues don't seem to grasp the urgency of the challenge. There simply is no pass to our next zero targets, which all political parties have committed to, without an ambitious programme on heat in buildings. This Government will continue with the action necessary to meet that high aspiration of our heat in buildings programme and will continue to make sure that there's a package of support available for people matching the support with the scale of change that's necessary and that would be brought forward in the regulations. I draw members' attention to my register of interests with respect to ownership of rental properties. No one doubts the minister's commitment to decarbonising heat in buildings, but commitment and delivery aren't necessarily the same thing. Developers in my constituency tell me that they're still permitted to build new houses with gas boilers and will continue to do so for the next two years at least. So can I ask the minister how many buildings have been decarbonised across the country since he took office two and a half years ago and at that rate, how long will it take to deliver net zero across the remainder of Scotland's housing stock? Well, I'm very pleased that last year Parliament did come together to pass the new build heat standard regulations, which come in from the 1st of April this year, preventing new buildings from being able to install polluting heating systems like gas boilers. Now, obviously, building warrants do last for up to three years, so at any point when that change was made, that would be the timescale over which it comes in. But we're acting a year ahead of the UK Government, and in fact the UK Climate Change Committee have urged the UK Government to match our timescale on that. In terms of the number of installations, it has been accelerating, but I'm afraid it would make no sense to give a projection of how long it would take at the current rate. The whole point of this is to continue the acceleration in the installation of zero emission heating systems. That's what we've been doing. We need to continue to see that, and the heat and building proposals are absolutely central, not only to seeing that increased demand, but stimulating investment in supply chain skills and capacity to make sure that it happens. The review group has said that consumers will be vulnerable to road traders, that there is not sufficient capacity in the market to install new products. What actions has he taken now to prevent road traders from entering the market? Minister. Well, in terms of the grant loan schemes, the Scottish Government-funded schemes, we do have a requirement on the skills and qualifications of suppliers that people choose to use. We're also exploring the option of a supplier-led scheme instead of the consumer-led scheme, or as well as the consumer-led scheme that we currently have. But the regulation of consumer protection rests with the UK Government. We continue to explore every option to discuss these issues. I've seen Mr Lumson shaking his head at that. He wishes these issues to still continue to rest with the UK Government, so it does him no credit to suggest that we shouldn't acknowledge where they have power on consumer protection they need to act. We stand ready to work in a constructive spirit to see improvements on consumer protection, but Mr Lumson cannot expect us to exercise powers that he insists should remain at Westminster. That question wasn't answered directly by the Minister about reliable, trustworthy companies. What work is the Scottish Government going to do to help fund support to deliver the skilled staff that we're clearly going to need right across Scotland so that there are affordable solutions, both for energy and heating options, given the £33 billion of investment that is expected to be required and the current cost of living crisis that householders in both urban and rural areas have? Where is the Scottish Government going to step up to help tackle this problem? I recently took part in a round table with industry stakeholders across the supply chain, and the very clear indication that they gave to me was that what industry needs to be able to invest not only in skills and qualifications but also in the capacity of the supply chain is demand assurance, unlocking that demand, and that's very much what the heat and buildings proposals set out to achieve. We do need to ensure that high standards are met. Some of the regulation of consumer protection, as I've said, rests with the UK Government in terms of our own powers. We do ensure that the grant and loan schemes require that people use qualified and trusted installers. We also work with UK-wide bodies like the MCS, which will be relaunching its criteria later this year to reduce some of the barriers to certification for small and independent contractors. Last year, the clean heat industry wrote to the First Minister urging the Scottish Government to move forward with its heat and buildings bill as soon as possible. It said that, to meet the challenge and maximise opportunities, industry needs certainty and that new standards would allow home owners, landlords and supply chains to understand what they need to do and buy when. Given that clear steer from industry, does the minister agree that calls from opposition parties for delay in dilution go against what businesses are telling us they need to deliver the heat transition with the urgency that's required to tackle the climate emergency? Mark Ruskell is absolutely right. The single message that is most consistent from both industry and from the experts like the UK Climate Change Committee is that government needs to give certainty and clarity. That's what the heat and buildings programme and the proposals we're consulted on will achieve by regulating, by passing legislation. This Parliament will give a very clear signal that it is worth the while of businesses in this sector to invest. As many of them want to do, many of them know that there are high quality careers to be had in Scotland not only doing the work of installing, but doing the work of innovating as well. Businesses are ready to go on this. They need our clarity and support about the long-term direction of travel. That's what our legislation intends to achieve. Any dilution, delay or deflection, which some opposition members seem to be wishing to have, would only undermine the opportunity to get the maximum economic benefit for Scotland from this heat transition, as well as the carbon emission reductions. The minister referred earlier to the concerns around supply chain capacity. Given the steep rise in demand that's anticipated, does he recognise there are particular issues in terms of supply chain capacity in rural and island areas? What action is the Government taking to ensure that that capacity is there to meet the future demand? I recently took part in a meeting specifically looking to get the views of rural community stakeholders from rural, remote and island communities who have made very constructive proposals. In fact, the benefits of the heat transition are very often even more significant in remote, rural and island communities. Many of them are not on the gas grid, for example, and are paying higher prices for energy. The transition to zero emission heating can save them money as well as saving emissions. One of the examples that I referred to a few minutes ago of reducing the barriers to accreditation under the MCS scheme is one of the things that we can do working with other organisations to make sure that in those communities, small businesses and independent contractors who are currently active in this field are able to be accredited and that will increase the ability of businesses that have their roots in those local communities and a degree of local trust being able to undertake that work. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Creative Scotland have awarded £85,000 to the project RAIN in light of concerns about its explicit content. Thanks to Neil Bibby for this topical question. I share the concerns that have been raised, including by Creative Scotland itself. I can see no way where what has been described should be in receipt of public funding. As members are aware, the Scottish Government has no role in the decisions of Creative Scotland for the funding of individual projects. However, Creative Scotland, I understand, is rapidly reviewing the allocation, as it has been clear that what has been reported simply does not meet what the funding was applied for. I look forward to Creative Scotland sharing its conclusions and I will update members, including Neil Bibby, soon. The Sunday Post has published shocking revelations about the explicit nature of the RAIN project. The project previously received £23,000 and has now attempted to recruit vulnerable people, including the disabled, at £300 a day to participate in sex acts so extreme that it was provided with psychological aftercare, and I will not repeat them here. I agree with what the minister said about not a penny of public funds should be used to support that. Does he agree that all money distributed should be clawed back? Creative Scotland has also stated that it did not know how explicit the project was to be. In order for the public to have confidence in their funding processes, does the cabinet secretary agree with me that the RAIN's general funding applications should be published in full? I thank Neil Bibby for his follow-up question. I think for the help of colleagues understanding what is currently under way at the present time, I think it is useful to understand the statement that has been released from Creative Scotland, which says that, while they support freedom of expression and artists being able to push the boundaries of radical performance, the project RAIN is considerably more explicit in its execution than was indicated in the application received to our open fund. As such, we are reviewing this award and will be discussing next steps for the applicant and with the other partners in the project. I think that the specific queries that Neil Bibby has raised are very apposite, but what I would wish to do in the first instance is await the conclusions from Creative Scotland. I think that he and colleagues right across the chamber understand the importance of the arms-length and independent nature of Creative Scotland and on the basis of what is then concluded in the review. No doubt further questions will follow us to the consequences. Neil Bibby. It is absolutely right that ministers do not determine individual funding applications, but it is also absolutely right that there needs to be openness and transparency from Creative Scotland who do, and therefore the application should be published in full. It has been reported that the filming was to involve live sex acts and to be done in outdoor public places in the Highlands. There are clearly questions to be answered, not just about the appropriateness of what was planned with public funds, but also about the legality. Does the minister agree that this should be examined, and more generally there should be a review of funding criteria and new guidance issued for future applications so that this cannot be allowed to happen again? I have absolutely no doubt that these proceedings are being watched closely by Creative Scotland. I also have no doubt that the points that he has raised thus far are ones that he will be listening to closely. I await the conclusions of their review into the matter and any outstanding questions that have been raised by colleagues in relation to how Creative Scotland has conducted the review, the conclusions that they have made and the actions that they will take, and I will be happy to share those conclusions, obviously, with Neil Bibby and other colleagues. If there are any wider lessons that need to be learnt, including legal issues, then those are ones that will need to be broached. Will the cabinet secretary inform us when he first learned about the funding issues and be transparent regarding the content of the application by ensuring that it is published in full, and does he agree that Creative Scotland should urgently review all decision-making processes on funding applications? There are a number of questions in Alexander Stewart's query. First, I learned about the issue at the same time as everybody else did over the weekend. I am pleased that Creative Scotland has acted swiftly in terms of announcing its review. I, up until now, have been pleased that there has been cross-party consensus in the chamber in relation to the fact that Creative Scotland is an arms-length and independent organisation. I am sure that everybody is very keen that politicians and Government do not stray into the areas of creative expression. Having said that, we have an arms-length organisation that has very clear rules about how public funds are to be applied for and for their purpose. That is currently what is being looked at. I expect that Creative Scotland will be reporting back quickly, and no doubt we will come back to discuss the conclusions of that review as soon as we learn them. Lamu Mewdeff Festival had its funding application turned down by Creative Scotland last year. The grant application for it was said to make up 23 per cent of the festival's budget. The future of the festival now hangs in the balance yet. 85,000 is being awarded to explicit projects such as this. Can I ask the Cabinet Secretary what specific measures are in place to monitor and regulate how and why funding is awarded by Creative Scotland and how it ensures that culture remains accessible for all? No doubt there are a great number of cultural projects where people could say, why has this been funded and not that. In a case like that, it is perfectly understandable that people would wish to understand how a decision could be made to support such an applicant and then deny it to others. Those are questions quite rightly for Creative Scotland. The leadership of Creative Scotland regularly attends evidence sessions of the Scottish Parliament Committee that has oversight over culture, external affairs and the constitution. No doubt those can be asked of creative Scotland decision makers. I think that Foisal Choundry and I are both in agreement that it is important that we have arm's length respect for the work of Creative Scotland. I hope that he agrees with me that it is a good thing that a review has been instigated extremely quickly. I hope that that review and a decision will follow swiftly too. No doubt we will come back to discuss what emerges from that review and we will be able to weigh up the queries that he has raised about the relative priorities about which projects are supported. First of all, I pay tribute to the investigative journalism of the Sunday Post. They are repeatedly coming up with interesting and pertinent stories, which I think is only to be commended in the illustrative of the strength, the need for a strong free press. I agree with the cabinet secretary when he talks about politicians and government not straying into the areas of creative expression, but the issue of how public money is spent is germane to the very purposes of this Parliament. Perhaps the cabinet secretary can explain how much due diligence is applied by government in relation to the sums of money it dispenses to other bodies and what measure of value for money is applied. Cabinet secretary, I can give one very real example of how that has worked recently, because Creative Scotland was in charge of dispensing very significant sums of financial support during Covid. The results of that process are a matter of public record and I think everybody associated with Creative Scotland can be proud of the way in which those funds were dispersed and the probity of the way in which that happened. This is a case that has been raised quite rightly and Stephen Kerr has praised the journalists that have been at the heart of it and I join him in that. I'm sure he appreciates the point that I've now made a number of times, which is it's important for Creative Scotland as an arms-length organisation to be able to do its work and they are doing that in review now, that the leadership of Creative Scotland does come regularly to this Parliament, gives MSPs the opportunity to ask about the processes that are in place and he will also appreciate that I as a cabinet secretary with a culture department that works very closely with Creative Scotland also wants to satisfy itself that all of these processes work in the accordance with the way in which Creative Scotland and arms-length organisations are supposed to operate. That is under continuous review, we will look at the conclusions of the investigation into this particular incident and if there are any wider issues that need to be taken on board by Creative Scotland or indeed the Scottish Government or lessons to be learned that is absolutely what will happen. Thank you that concludes topical questions. The next item of business is a debate on motion 12450 in the name of Paul MacLennan on housing cladding remediation Scotland Bill at stage 1. We'll just allow a moment for front benches to organise themselves and I'll take this opportunity too to invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request to speak buttons.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel, and welcome back to another WW Weekly Meal Prep. You guys, I cannot wait to share my recipes with you. We're actually making four recipes this week. One of them is really simple. We're doing two for breakfast, one for lunch, and an amazing dessert, the dessert. Let me just tell you how delicious it is, and wait until you see the smart points. You will not believe it. So if you want to see what I have in store for breakfast, lunch, and a little sweet treat for the week, then just stay tuned. For my breakfast this week, I'm going to be making ham and cheese hash waffles. I've actually never made these before, but they are all the rage, and I am very excited to give them a try. I am kind of over eggs at the moment, so I wanted to have a breakfast that would fill me up, provide me with protein, be delicious, and not include eggs just for a week, just to give my body a break from eggs. So here's what you're going to need for my hash waffles. So of course, you're going to need some shredded hash browns.  Cheese of your choice. I'm just going to use the Trader Joe's Light Mexican Blend. It's only two smart points for a quarter of a cup, so it's lower than most of the light shredded cheeses out there. Also some ham or whatever meat you want to do. Cooking spray for your waffle iron. Light butter, salt and pepper, and of course a waffle iron. So with my hash waffles, I decided that I wanted to make some blueberry muffins. So I purchased this Lakanto blueberry muffin mix, sugar-free, sweetened with monk fruit off of Netrition's website. You can see here that it is keto, one net carb, dairy-free and gluten-free. So if you're someone really watching your carbs or can't have dairy or gluten-free, I'm really excited to try these muffins out. They are only 35 calories per muffin, so they are only one smart point. You can't beat that for a blueberry muffin. So we're going to try these. I really like monk fruit. It doesn't have a weird aftertaste like some of the other artificial sweeteners. So I'm going to make these. I'll let you guys know how they are, but I'm going to have a blueberry muffin along with a hash waffle for my breakfast. So let's get started. So to get started on our hash waffles, I have my defrosted hash browns here in my bowl. To that, I am adding four tablespoons. I weighed this out on my food scale of melted butter to my hash browns. And I'm just going to give that a stir. I just want to make sure that that butter gets nice and incorporated in with all of my hash browns. It's going to add that delicious flavor, but it's also going to help bind the hash browns in the waffle maker. And then we're just going to add some salt and pepper, and then we're ready to start putting together our waffles into our waffle maker. I have mine warming up now, so let me get this all mixed together, and I'll show you the next step on our hash waffles. Now we're ready to make our hash waffles. So I have my waffle iron warmed up. I'm going to go ahead and just spray it with a little bit of nonstick cooking spray. And I'm going to add in my hash browns. We want to have enough hash browns to fill our containers. And this needs to make five servings. So it's about a half of a cup per little waffle square. So I'm going to go ahead and add in my hash browns. Oh, yum. And I am just kind of pushing these down just to make sure they fit nicely into the squares of my waffle maker. And then to that I'm going to add just a couple tablespoons of my shredded cheese over the top of my hash browns. And again, we have three quarters of a cup of cheese for all of our hash waffles. And then same with our ham. We're going to do a couple of tablespoons of our diced ham as well over the top of our waffle. And we're going to have a delicious ham and cheese waffle. You can't beat it. So add your ham. And then lastly, we're going to add just a little bit more hash browns over the top just to kind of cover up and seal in the ham and the cheese. So again, you want to do about a half of a cup per square total, including what is on top. And then we are going to close down our waffle maker. And we're going to let it cook. And I'll be back to show you our completed hash waffle. All right. Look at our hash waffle. Doesn't that look amazing? So I'm just going to let it sit here for just a second. It pops out really easy. And then I'm just going to set it aside and repeat this and make four more of the ham and cheese hash waffles. You guys, yum. So I'll be back to show you our completed waffles on our blueberry muffins. Our waffles are done in cooling. So I'm going to add my package of Lakonto blueberry muffin mix. You guys, this mix is packed with blueberries. Look at all those yum. And then to that, I'm going to add three eggs. And I'm just following the directions on the back of the package. And I am substituting the quarter cup of oil with, or I'm sorry, half a cup of oil with half of a cup of unsweetened applesauce. Very much a WW dupe for oil. And then I also just need three quarters of a cup of water, which was also on the package ingredients. So I'm going to give this a good mix, make sure everything gets nice and combined. And we're ready to put our muffins into the oven. It is that fast, you guys, that incredibly quick. So I am going to grab out my muffin tin and let's get our blueberry muffins into the oven. I went ahead and grabbed out my muffin pan, sprayed it with some nonstick cooking spray, pulled out my large scoop. I did buy these scoops off of Amazon. They are linked in my Amazon store. You get three scoops, three different sizes for like $10, really inexpensive. So we want a total of 12 muffins. So I'm going to fill them about three quarters between, yeah, about two thirds to three quarters full in the muffin tin. And that allows them a chance to rise as well. And this mix should give us a total of 12 muffins. So I'm going to get my muffin cups filled with this delicious mix, and we'll be ready to put these into the oven at 425 until the toothpick comes out clean. So I'm going to get these filled up and I'll be back to show you the finished muffins and we'll get these into the oven. So here are our blueberry muffins. They ended up being about half full in order to get 12 muffins. So I'm going to pop these in the oven and I'll be back to show you our completed muffins. And we'll put together this week's breakfast. I just pulled our monk fruit muffins out of the oven. You guys, these look amazing. Look at that. So good. So I'm going to let these cool for just a moment. I'm going to pop one out, put it in my meal prep container. I'll show you guys what the completed breakfast looks like and give you the smart points. So here is my completed breakfast for this week. I'm really excited for my breakfast. So let me show you what I'm having. So first I have one of my ham and cheese hash waffles. Now when you reheat these, you can do it in the microwave. You could pop it in your air fryer or a toaster oven if you have one at work or home. If you want to get it crispy, I'm probably just going to microwave it. I don't mind my hash browns not being super crispy. So I did try a little bit of this. It's amazing. So good. So I'm having one of my ham and cheese hash waffles that is a total of six smart points. And then I'm also having one of my blueberry muffins. These muffins, one point. That's it, you guys. One point for a blueberry muffin. I did have one for breakfast today. And what it reminds me of is the jiffy blueberry muffin mix that you can buy in the grocery store. That's what it tastes like. It is really, really good. No weird aftertaste. Delicious. So I have six points for my hash waffle. One point for my blueberry muffin. And then I bagged up some strawberries. And I did have a couple bags of grapes left over from last week. So this is going to be my fruit for breakfast. So my entire breakfast, hash waffle, muffin and fruit is only seven smart points. You can't beat it. Seven smart points for this amazing breakfast. So for my lunches this week, I'm going to be making burger bowls. Now I'm going to make mine a little bit different than the original recipe. So I'm going to kind of walk you through what I'm doing versus the recipe. The ingredients are the same. It's just the preparation is going to be a little bit different. So what you're going to need for your burger bowls, you're going to need some chives. If you want to top your burger bowl with some chives, I'll probably add some G Hughes barbecue sauces as well, but you can go ahead and pick whatever toppings you want for your bowl. Light butter. Worcestershire sauce. Black pepper. Garlic powder and seasoning salt. Two pounds of 96 for extra lean ground beef. Mushrooms. I'm going to do a mix of fat-free cheese and light cheese that'll just cut down on the points. And lastly some center cut bacon. So let's get started on our burger bowls. The first thing we need to do to get started on our burger bowls is cook our bacon. So I've put mine here on a sheet with some foil. I'm going to put this in the oven at 400 until the bacon is cooked and nice and crispy. We only need 10 slices for our burger bowls, but I'm just going to cook it all down. My husband loves leftover bacon. So I'm just going to go ahead and toss the extras into the fridge. While our bacon's in the oven, we're going to get our hamburger cooking down. So to it, I'm going to be adding some of my Trader Joe's or whatever seasoning salt that you have. It calls for Lowry's about two and a half teaspoons. So I'm going to make sure I add enough of the seasoning salt. We're also going to just be adding in a little bit of garlic powder. And the recipe wants about a teaspoon of garlic powder. And then we're going to add in three teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce. So I'm just going to wing it. I don't ever measure my sauce. And then lastly, I'm just going to add in a little bit of black pepper and we're going to cook our hamburger down. Our hamburger is cooking right along. And next to that, I've added four tablespoons of light butter to a small pan. And to that, I'm going to add in my mushrooms because we want to saute our mushrooms down in the butter. And that is one of our toppings for our fully loaded burger bowls. So I'm going to let these mushrooms get nice and sauteed. So we are ready to assemble our burger bowls. So I have my meat cooked up here. The original recipe wants you to take your meat and form it into a bowl and bake it in the oven and actually eat out of the meat bowl. But I decided because I'm meal prepping this that it would be easier just to use my meal prep bowls and add all of my burger bowl ingredients to that. So I have my meat, our sauteed mushrooms look amazing. And then I have a cup of fat free cheese and a cup of light shredded cheese. 10 slices of center cut bacon. And then I just went ahead and diced up some chives. So let's put together the bowl. So we are going to want one sixth. We're actually going to make six burger bowls. That gives me an extra one to have for lunch on today on Sunday. So I'm going to divide my mixture up as evenly as I can between six bowls. So I have some hamburger in the bottom. To that, I'm going to add a few of my sauteed mushrooms. And again, we do want to get six bowls out of what we have here. So we don't want to go too crazy as delicious as these look. And then we're going to add a little bit of cheese. So I'm just going to put a little bit of sprinkle of cheese on that layer. And again, this cheese has to go between six bowls. So we don't want to go too crazy with that either. And then I'm going to just break up two slices of my center cut bacon so that we have two slices of bacon per bowl. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. This particular center cut bacon, the private selection from Fred Meyer, is actually two slices for one smart point. So it's a really, really good deal. All right. So I've added my bacon. And then I'm going to just do another little sprinkle of cheese over the top of all of that as well. And then just a little sprinkle of my chives. Oh my gosh, this looks so incredibly delicious. So that is my burger bowl. This is a low carb lunch. You guys, there is no carbs in here at all. I am going to add some G Who's barbecue sauce to this. I'll show you how I'm going to package that up. And then I'll show you what else I'm going to be having with lunch. But this is the main part of my lunch. Doesn't this look delish? So here's what I'm going to be having for lunches this week. I am extremely excited about my lunch. So what I have here is my fully loaded burger bowl. And this again is a low carb recipe. So if you're looking to kind of lighten up your carbs, I just wanted it because it sounds amazing. So for my burger bowl, including I have a little container here of the G Hu sugar free barbecue sauce, that is zero smart points. So for my bowl, it is a total of six smart points. And that includes the meat, the bacon, the cheese, everything. So I'm going to be having my burger bowl. I'll be cutting up this watermelon and I'll have some slices of watermelon with my burger bowl. And then I'm going to have one serving of my fiber gourmet thinnables. These are the sharp cheddar and you can have 30 of these crackers for only two smart points. That's it. And they taste like cheez-its. Now regular cheez-its are about five smart points for less crackers. So I love the thinnables from fiber gourmet. They're amazing. You can purchase these off of the nettrition website. There is a link down in the description box.  In fact, my barbecue sauce came from that website as well. So I'm going to be having 30 of my sharp cheddar thinnables for two smart points. So that makes my entire lunch of healthy filling protein eight smart points for a dessert or sweet treat this week. I'm going to be making a lemon zucchini cake. My husband is so excited about this recipe. So he eats a lot of the food that I prepare as well. So I'm not just the only one eating it. And for those of you that question the food that we're making, do we eat it? Absolutely. We eat all of it. We very rarely throw away food. So it's definitely not just for this channel. It is what we are eating throughout the week. I know it seems ridiculous that we have to even bring that up, but it is a question sometimes of people. So let me show you what is in our lemon zucchini cake. So first you are going to need some sugar alternative of your choice. I'm going to be using stevia in the raw, some all purpose flour, unsweetened applesauce, whatever powdered sugar or powdered sugar substitute that you want to use. I'm going to be using the sucran icing, salt, baking powder and baking soda, eggs, vanilla extract. I am obsessed with the Trader Joe's. It's so good. Lemons, zucchini, of course, and some light butter. So let's get started on our lemon zucchini cake. The first step in our bread is I went ahead and zested two of my small lemons, or you could zest one large lemon. To that I'm going to add one cup of the stevia baking mix. And I'm just going to stir this until the sugar becomes a little moistened from the lemon zest and the lemon zest is fully mixed in really well with the sugar. After you've combined your sugar and your lemon zest, we're going to go ahead and add in one teaspoon of our vanilla extract. I'm also going to add in one quarter cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice, three eggs, and one cup of unsweetened applesauce, which is essentially the replacement of the oil in the recipe. And then you can use a hand mixer or just really give this a good mix, whatever you prefer. We want to make sure we get all of our ingredients fully incorporated. Once your wet ingredients are mixed together, you can either combine your dry in a separate bowl or directly to the mix. I'm going to do it directly to the mix. So I have two cups of all-purpose flour and I always like to give it a nice stir before I add in my leveling agents, my baking soda, baking powder. If you are going to combine your dry ingredients separate, just make sure that you give it a good mix as well. You want to make sure everything gets nice and combined together. So there's that. And then I'm going to add in just a pinch of salt. Salt always helps enhance the flavors of baked goods. And then I'm going to add two teaspoons of baking soda. So we'll add in one and two. And then we're going to do half of a teaspoon of our baking powder. And then we're going to give that a nice big stir until everything is nice and incorporated all of our wet and our dry ingredients. The last step is we are going to go ahead and add in our two cups of grated zucchini. Now I grated mine really, really fine. I use a zester. That's how I prefer my zucchini and my bread. I think it adds really good texture and moistness, but it doesn't give you those big chunks of zucchini. I don't really like that when I'm eating my zucchini bread. So we're just going to gently fold in our zucchini and then we're ready to add this delicious, look at this, yum, to our bump pan. Last step is we're going to go ahead and grease our bump pan with some nonstick cooking spray. Really grease your bump pan otherwise it likes to stick in to the crevices of your pan. And then we are just going to add in our cake mix just all around our bump pan here until it is nice and level. So add in all the deliciousness. So there is our lemon zucchini cake. Doesn't that look amazing? So we're going to put this in the oven at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes or until our toothpick comes out clean. And when it gets a little bit closer to finished cooking, we'll go ahead and put together our glaze. Oh my, I just pulled the lemon zucchini cake out of the oven, you guys. This looks so good. My house smells lemony and fresh. I'm so excited. So I'm going to push this aside. Let this get a little cool. And let's put together our glaze. So let's put together our glaze. So what I have here is one cup of the sucran powdered sugar. I'm going to add three tablespoons of melted light butter, about two tablespoons of fresh zested lemon or squeezed lemon. I may add the rest. Let me see how thick this is and about a teaspoon of vanilla extract. And then I'm going to give this a stir and this is going to be the glaze that is going to go on top of our cooled lemon zucchini cake. I am, you guys, I'm incredibly excited about this recipe. And wait until you guys hear the smart points. Once your cake is nice and cool, it is time to glaze it. So I've got our glaze. We're just going to pour it over the top of our Bundt cake. Oh my gosh, you guys, this looks amazing. Allow it to drip down the middle, drip down the sides. That's what makes Bundt cakes so delicious is that delicious coating of the glaze. So I'm going to go ahead and add my glaze. I'm going to give my Bundt cake just a little bit longer to allow the glaze to dry a little bit. And then I'll go ahead and cut it into the servings and give you guys the smart points. Wait until you hear the smart points on this. You're not going to believe it. So here is our completed zucchini lemon, lemon cake. So this is a salad plate, you guys. This is one eighth of the Bundt cake. So you're going to cut this into eight equal servings. So that is a serving huge. This entire serving, including the glaze, is only three smart points. So you can have this piece of lemon zucchini cake for three smart points. So here's what I'm planning on taking for snacks for this week. So first, I always want a little something sweet during the day at some point. So I'm going to be bringing one of my two packs of the chocolate right peanut butter cups. These legitimately are a pretty solid dupe for the Reese's peanut butter cup. They are so good. And you can have this entire package of two peanut butter cups for two smart points. You can't beat it. So you can have that sweet treat for two points. All of the chocolate right products are amazing. I love their vanilla cream. One of these little chocolates as well. You can purchase these off of the protein wise website. There is a link down in the description box. Not only will it give you $10 off your order, so you can get $10 worth of free product. It also gives you free shipping at a certain order amount. So check out protein wise. They have an amazing array of WW products. So this is definitely on my snack list for the week. Also, I've been loving these planters, nuttrition, brain support and heart support squares. I heard about these from my friend Barrett Pasteur on YouTube. These are amazing. You can have one serving for five smart points. So not bad. Sometimes I only pop one or two in my mouth. So it's really only one or two points, but it's just a nice healthy solid snack to have on hand. So I'll be bringing those.  So really, really delicious. And then of course, for my morning snack, which I have every day, I'm going to have a bill bar. So this week I am packing a lemon cinnamon. The cinnamon bear is no longer available. I really like this flavor, but it was pretty controversial. Some of you like it. Some of you don't. The blueberry cheesecake. I think you can still order this one, the mint brownie delight, which is literally my favorite. And then I really like this one. This is the new flavor, the mango chocolate cream. This one is extremely good as well. These bill bars are only three smart points apiece. They have 15 grams of protein and six grams of fiber. So they keep you nice and full, but they taste like a candy bar. Like I'm not kidding.  So if you want to order a bill bar, go ahead and click the link down in the description box. It will automatically take you over to bill bar and automatically apply the 10% off and free shipping. Or you can go to billbar.com and use my code here on the screen for 10% off and free shipping. Definitely you guys, this is a staple on WW. I don't think anyone should go along this journey without the bill bar. So every day I have this is my morning snack keeps me full till lunch. So this is what I'm bringing this week for snack. Thank you for joining me on another WW weekly meal prep. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the recipes that I shared with you today. Every single one of the four recipes is absolutely amazing. You're going to love them all. They will all be linked down in the description box below. So definitely check them out and make them for yourself and your family. They're delicious. If you're new to my channel, I'd like to make sure that you feel very welcome. If you would take a moment and subscribe, hit that little red subscribe button and the bell. 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