Hi, my name is Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this video on Trading complex pullbacks using supply and demand zones now What is a complex pullback of complex pullback is what the market does when it wants to? fool traders and capture traders into Taking certain trading pretty much gets them twice so you can probably see on the thumbnail What happens? I'm going to explain what the you know the ABC the eFG hi movement is all about now If you're a support and resistance trader, you normally will get caught out by what is known as the complex pullback and This is because support and resistance traders and support them resistance levels When you're trading them, it's simply just a pattern and really doesn't take into account Already takes into account people don't really think about Value right so what traders will look at is just a pattern so they will see you know a higher high take place and Then what they would do is they will trade and look for some price action when price comes down into what was You know previous What they call resistance, which is really is the supply zone that has been projected into the future Right and then take that as support right and their confluence is some sort of candlestick or you know indicator, right? So but what we know is Supply and demand traders is that and you can watch this on my introduction into supply and demand I'll put the link in the description box below Right is that Higher highs and higher lows or especially higher lows are where the cheapest area, right? Is where the strongest area of demand is because this is a cheap Zone is considered the first cheapest area, right from a move up and again If you want to know what I'm you know talking about the link is in the description box below or up on the top right-hand side of your screen, right so What happens is if we have if you turn this into you know turn that into an a and Then actually matter of fact, let's just go back a bit, right? So first of all we get our move up a Then we get a pullback B Then we get C, right? So remember B is what we would consider the best area, right? The best area for demand Right, and this would be What we would call supply now this if this is the cheapest area. This is cheap, right? EAP Right, this has to be an expensive area, right X EX Right and in between a cheap area and an expensive area is Fair value, right? So this would be considered fair value. So when traders tend to buy at areas of Support and resistance Between a high and the low what you're really doing is buying at fair value If you're buying at you know, Fibonacci retracement 38.2 You're buying above fair value And if you're buying at the 618 retracement, you're buying just below fair value, right? Supply I'm sorry support and resistance traders Like I said, don't just trading the pattern. They're not understanding the psychology as to why this move, you know Occurred right and what could potentially happen in the future in the psychology behind? You know demand and supply zones, right? So Again, I urge you to watch the introduction into supply and demand videos and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about So what happens is is you get this move ABC up, right? Then you get a move down D Now again, we know that this isn't the greatest area to buy, right? Even though prices could still continue to move higher Right and it could still keep going higher and break to new highs, etc Right, but that doesn't mean it was always the best place to buy, right? And what we're trying to do is avoid well, you know This complex pullback which tends to get and trick traders At least twice sometimes even three times into, you know losing you losing trade So as a support and resistance trader, you're looking at the past and you're seeing this is, you know a right predicted into the future and You want to be a buyer here you get some price action and then you put your stop below D, right? And what ends up happening is is that you get some bullish price action prices amount You know go out for a little bit and then what happens is you get stopped out, right?  You're F'd so But this was really be right or this demand zone was was really that the The best place to look for a trade is the cheapest area to look for a trade woman trading supply and demand, right? And what tends to happen is is that, you know, you might get a bounce here And you get a bounce here obviously with some price action and the supply and demand traders and demand traders in this Example we look for obviously some price action and then look to buy at the cheapest potential area, right now What happens with support and resistance traders is that they will then look at price action So they will look at CDE, right lose On D with their stop loss below here, right and then look to F and then what they would do again Just project that potential demand into the future, right? so broken Support now should become resistance, right prices come up to this area and Then they get some confirming price action, right? And you know what's gonna happen next in it, right? You get let's say this is G right Prices end up taking out their stop losses, right? H and then we end up Moving to I All right, and so traders who trade tend to trade them, you know support and resistance will end up losing you know twice and Which is the reason why is one of the reasons why Support and resistance traders find it very very hard to continually make profits because they don't you know for one You know, you're just looking at the technicals I personally look at fundamentals as my north star, right? So I know which way I should be trading, right? And if you're looking at technical patterns, you you don't really know where Value really lies, right when you're trading support and resistance It's obvious that this was a strong area of demand, right? And this is the cheapest area and simply because if you You know, you can see price Breaking to new highs if this wasn't a strong area of demand prices We probably get to somewhere around here and here and here and wouldn't move higher but obviously prices are broken higher because buyers still deem this as You know an area to buy right a cheap area because we're always concerned right with price Right, we should always be looking at Price and where price is so if we're looking at this area being the absolute bargain area This is where people were loading up, right? They were buying in there, you know hundreds thousands, whatever it is that they're buying, right? So much so that it pushed price past this expensive area what was considered an expensive area, right? So this has to be an absolute bargain providing that the fundamentals and whatever it is that you're buying, right? Is still, you know, fundamentally sound right? So which is the reason why you get this type of pattern, right and there's another reason, you know, obviously a stop hunts occur stop hunts do occur and I'll get into that in another video, right as to the reasons why stop hunts occur But this Really is how to really avoid What you would consider Complex pullbacks and really how we trade complex pullbacks as you know supply and demand traders Is really just think about where it is that you're trying to buy, right? You need an edge, right and support and resistance is not an edge because everybody that 99.9 percent of traders a trading Support and resistance. So how is that an edge? It's obvious for everybody to see, right? So what you need to do is really try to look at the chart from a yes from a technical perspective, but also from a psychological perspective, right and See exactly where the best places you should be buying if prices do go higher from here, right fine brilliant, right excellent and Good luck to those, you know support and resistance traders, but as a supply and demand trader I'm looking at below fair value as an area to buy so Let's get into a an example of this on a price chart So here we're on the daily chart of the dollar Swiss Frank now We have some supply and demand zones drawn out on the daily And if you want to subscribe to our email list the link is in the description box below and you get these These levels sent out to you every week, right and I also do my Sunday Trade opportunities where I go over levels of new levels of supply and demand, but let's get into the complex pullback So what we want to do is look for complex pullbacks in daily levels of Supply and demand on a lower time frame, right? So if we go down to let's say a four-hour chart and we can see one here, right and In real time by the way, this was What we saw so I'd marked this level out as a level of Demand because we had made a higher high, right? So higher Low and higher high, right? So what at the time, right? I had projected this Level as a level of demand. So this isn't based on, you know, some sort of a hindsight or anything like that this if you go back to That we can march, right and you can watch the videos in March March the 20th Right, you'll see that I Put this this level on here, but anyway getting back to the The level so let's go down into It was this area here wasn't it right so four-hour chart, right? There we go. So What support and resistance traders will look? To is probably this area right here. So you've got resistance resistance resistance And then you've got support, right? So What we had is a move up Right Move down Move up. There's our ABC We come down to D And again, if we if this is all we were looking at in real time, you would have seen a nice pinball candle another Candle right here. This is like a you know, a little swing area People are looking to the left and seeing that, you know, you know, there's some sort of confluence here prices were rejected there rejected there, etc. Right So in real time, this would have looked like a great area to buy but we know as Supplying demand traders at the best area to buy right the cheapest area the first cheapest area It's going to be within this daily demand zone, right? So you have Traders actually buying so this would be ABC deep right traders buying a deep and then what happens is you get move up. This is E right and then Traders get stopped out as they put their stop losses where in obvious places below Here traders are not going to put their, you know, use risk rewards You know and try and go anything below this swing here because look if even if they're trying to take profit at the top That's just an inverse risk reward So they're gonna retail traders tend to have as tight a stop as possible Right to try and get as much pips and the risk reward ratio, right? Make sense But once they're in their stop losses fair game and now they've lost, right? So now we end up E at F Right now before we come down here What you're starting to see is Lower highs and lower lows being made, right? Lower highs and lower lows being made. What does that say to a support and resistance trader, right? It says that, you know, potentially the end of a, you know The uptrend and now a downtrend is coming, right? Where do you think they're going to try and get short anywhere back into this? You know this this previously, you know Sort as support now into resistance. Where are we buying? We're buying at the best areas Which is here, which is the cheap area, right So this could have been our entry, right? Positive candle, right? Or if you trade them, you know, in one hour or whatever it is you're trading on, right? But so we're buying in this zone, right? Because we know this is the cheapest area This is probably fair value. Not necessarily the best area to buy even though again I just reiterate that prices can take off and go from here But it's really just understanding that when you're trading support and resistance zones, you're not necessarily always buying at the best areas, right? so What happens is Traders have got stopped out here and now thinking to themselves.  This is probably some, you know 618 retracement as well and they're looking at trying to get short Right, how many people in real time out there watching this video would have looked said that that looked like a good Trade to the downside a lot of people putting your stops above The highs right now soon if you've done that then you get stopped out again and prices go on there Mary way, right and again we can project into the future and this is a time when you know support and resistance Right did work right here Right, but if you're If you want to really trade high probability trades and really trade with an extra edge on your You know on your site, right? What you need to be looking at is supply and demand zones and not get caught up into every Support turns resistance resistance turns into support Because you know again if it was that easy if it really was that easy You could you know, you can learn support and resistance in in a day or two just getting you know Just getting practice. There's a reason why traders might there's a lot of reasons why traders You know are not successful at support and resistance trading When using technical analysis alone as well, right so Um, that's just uh, you know iterate a a point right and again as you matter fact we can see it right here Again, right we've got another one Where you have Higher lows and higher highs being made right new high Where are traders looking? To trade right They're looking to trade levels of support and resistance We know that this area here Right would have been the daily Uh, you know demand zone that we were looking for prices to come back into before we before we look for a trade, right? But supply and support and resistance traders would have been looking at areas, right of potential support Um, sorry, I'll talk about supply and demand. We're looking at and uh support resistance traders looking at areas of support And resistance to obviously get long, right? So they get end up prices end up breaking This area here and then where traders trying to get short, right right here Traders trying to get short right here Right now depending on where you've got in you could have made some profit But was this really the best trade to take? You know traders were definitely taking this short here, right? Because the more a level is touched as well, which we don't believe as Sub supply and demand traders support resistance traders believe that this jerry was touched once twice three times The stronger it becomes it's like some sort of triple top, etc. Right now We believe the opposite the more times the level is touched The uh the weaker it becomes, right? So there would have been a lot of stops around Here anywhere above here, right Stop losses stop losses. Sorry got the uh magnet tool on Right, but we only take one trade, right? This is the best area because this is the cheap This is where in the overall trend. This is where the cheapest area the first cheapest area is demand area Right, we're looking to take trades around here stop below our demand zones, right? Um opportunities here opportunities here, right and then we end up getting You know the move higher, right? So that's again just to illustrate the point And how to really trade complex pullbacks and really where you're Where you should be looking at trading, right again Fair value is fair value is not always the best area to trade Best areas to trade are at supply and demand zones because you have a psychological edge. This is where traders In the past thought that this was a bargain, right? And it's you know, there's there's a there's a strong Chance that again traders who bought here will be buying again Down here, right? um If prices do come down here and providing that the uh asset that they're buying You know in this case the dollars They're buying the dollar over the swiss is fundamentally sound as well. So I hope that has helped if you have any questions Um, just email me at info at trading 180.com. Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel Again, if you want to sign up to the supply and demand daily levels, there's a link in the description box below Um, I hope you have a great trading week and take care So if you'd like to receive the best supply and demand forex levels Absolutely free. Click on the link in the description box below Entry email address and we'll send you the levels that we have just analyzed in this video You'll get all of the major for its currency pairs And you'll get regular updates and never miss a forex trading opportunity


Do you see that flickering light? Believe it or not, it inspired me to do this video. And welcome back to another exciting edition of a week in Geekdom, Geo here. It's been a minute since I've done this setup, and as you can see, we're having some technical hiccups. However, it kind of fits with the theme. It brings out the spooky in all of us, right? When you have a flickering light, and there's no way to control it unless you actually change it. But then I remembered, hey, I gotta talk about this book. And I thought, why don't I do it with the theme of a possessed light? Wouldn't that be fun? Deserter by Junji Ito is another short story collection, this time going back to his very roots, his very beginnings with some of his earlier works. This is probably one of my favorite of the Ito books that I own. I absolutely loved it. There are a couple of misses, but for the most part, everything is a home run in this book, and it definitely brings to spooks. It's not necessarily the scariest book of all time, but it leaves you questioning things. It leaves you wondering about what you've read, and the more you go into what you experienced, I found it more frightful. And that is a master of horror at work, in my honest opinion. And you can definitely see a lot of these staples and horror tropes that would become emblematic in Junji Ito works in here. Also, it was kind of interesting to see how the story begins with really rough artwork, but it's still awesome. That's what's fun about it. The first short story called Biohouse features some of the roughest early drafts, if you will, when it comes to character work and just overall art. But it still looks great and adds a lot of personality to the short story. So over the course of 300 and some pages, you get 12 different short stories. I'm just going to give you my overall thoughts. You had the story of Biohouse, which is super creepy and could easily be a horror short movie or a full length movie about this creepy science worker that invites a colleague to dinner at his mansion. And things go south quick with how creepy both of them are, but the dude turns out to be creepier and there is a lot of grotesque stuff that happens there. Face Thief was interesting. It featured the whole concept of someone stealing your identity and the scary aspect of that obviously exaggerated to have this character, this entity, I guess, be sort of like a chameleon and steal people's faces and become them. And the paranoia of losing one's identity and stuff like that. Pretty interesting, not necessarily my favorite. And I will say Biohouse and Face Thief, even though it is some of the earliest works and the art definitely shows, it has fantastic character work with the expressions on their faces. Where the Sandman lives, I thought was interesting. It definitely brought the creepy factor and it really showed you why Ito's famous for his body horror and man that light is still going. It's going to go for the rest of the video, so hang tight. Where the Sandman lives, like I said, fantastic work. I love the whole idea of dreams and how they can be a source of nightmares for some people because we have no control over that. And this sort of goes into that, but on a more terrifying body horror type of way. The long hair and the attic was extremely creepy and brotesque. I highly recommend checking that one out if you're into that sort of thing. Scripted Love is the next one and out of the bunch here, I gotta say this one to me felt the most real because it involves real people. And the fact that it relies on the lies we tell each other to comfort ourselves. The Reanimator Sword was the funnest of the bunch here because it didn't feel like I was reading a horror story and more like an action anime of this weird guy that has a sword that can bring people back to life and some crazy shenanigans happen in it. It's fairly short and by the time I realized what's happening I was a little disappointed that it ended. I kind of wanted to read more of it, of that world of that story. A Father's Love is one of the longest ones here in this book and it was really an engrossing read about the obsession and the mystery behind a particular family and of course a father, the head of a household and what he goes through with his children and his wife and the tragedies to strike and his resolve to somehow keep everything together although it doesn't turn out as he expected. The ending or the source of the mystery is a little comic bookie if you will but the story itself is really good and I really enjoyed that for once. I got the ending that I was looking for. The next one is Unendurable Labyrinth. This one was extremely creepy, I loved it. Essentially it's the story about these two girls that get lost hiking in the woods in this mountain and come across this Buddhist sect temple of these monks that are practicing some extreme doctrines that involve mummification and stuff like that and it starts out eerie and gets progressively worse as you keep reading it and the end even though it was not as bad as I was thinking it was going to be still managed to fully creep me out because it's something again that's based on reality and actually well yeah most of these stories are based on aspects of real life but this is something that happens that you can research but you can check it out on the internet and be creeped out by it. Village of the Siren is one of the most messed up apocalyptic things I've read from Junji Ito. It's not grotesque, it's not scary, it's more shocking and I thought okay so this just opened the portals to the freaking apocalypse by the end of it. Essentially this kid gets an invitation from his mother to go back to his town that they used to be farmers but now they've built the town has built a factory and there's a giant siren tower and all that stuff and he goes back to the town to investigate what's happening because it sounds so weird they used to be farmers for many years how could they suddenly just drop that and of course once you get there you do have sort of Uzumaki vibes in that everything seems normal at first but it quickly turns eerie and twisted and demented and the fact that Ito used Christian imagery and doctrines and lore makes it stand out from the rest of the bunch and I think it's one of his finest efforts when it comes to horror it really brings that fear of a good scary story and there are some really messed up things that happen in it you don't see it but it's implied and that's what makes it more frightening in my opinion bullied was really messed up it's not scary whatsoever although it is scary for people that have been bullied in the past to an extreme degree where it develops PTSD and stuff like that I'm not saying like a normal tease by a school bully or a friend or something like that I'm talking like physical violence that can really trigger some people that experience that because even though it's played to extremes on the story there are cases in real life of people being abused in such a way which I thought was interesting and the ending just has one of the creepiest images that I have ever seen on a Junji Ito manga and the fact that the main protagonist in that story did what she did and it ends in such a horrific way holy crap it just reminded me how sick and demented some people are in real life and that is extremely sad and finally the best story is saved for last in my opinion deserter it's essentially a short story about this family that is hiding a world war two Japanese soldier he deserted the army if they catch him like stuff like that happened back in the day if they if they caught him they would have executed him they would have made him pay for what he did it was a super dishonorable when everybody was risking their lives to fight for whatever ideology they believed in and all that stuff so he is really putting his life out on the line by escaping and this family is hiding him in a warehouse in his house the thing is the war ended it's been eight years I think and they are still tormenting him and letting him believe that the war is still going and it's evolved and has a bunch of crazy things happening now it sounds far-fetched but we've seen stories of people that have been trapped in islands in the pacific and they believed that the war was still going and stuff like that so it's not too out of the ordinary where it gets really interesting is the revelation as to why they're doing that to this soldier ex-soldier I guess and it's it's really it's really sad and scary that people wouldn't manipulate others into into doing that the final reveal actually gave me goosebumps and I thought man this is some awesome stuff that I'm reading right here and I highly recommend picking up deserter just for that story alone it's an excellent beautifully done story if you like horror if you like short stories this one is a must-read in my opinion oh and I actually missed one the devil's logic which was actually the weakest one of the bunch I did not like it whatsoever it was the shortest one I thought it was just uh being trying to be scary and edgy for the sake of it and it didn't really contribute anything this girl unalives herself and uh another kid is trying to solve the mystery but as soon as you start reading into it the story ends in the most dumbest way possible uh from a storytelling point so I really did not like that one going into this book I thought I wasn't going to like it like I said at the beginning of the video because I thought it's going to be too rough around the edges it's you know ito at his earliest it's not going to be as strong and as is other works that he's most known for but on the contrary this is a solid piece of fiction it has a lot of cool stories from a time where ito may have not been as renowned and well known but you see that dedication you see that passion for the craft there and just inventive writing and making some really spooky stories and I gotta love this book for that and also I mentioned that before but the art is great and on all of these and as you read from story to story the art gets progressively better and it merges into what you've come to know of ito so I highly recommend it if you like good short horror stories with a nice beginning middle and end with good character work and aren't and just the creepy factor raced up a bit go check out deserter so yeah that's going to be it for now thank you everybody thank you so much for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of this channel I truly do appreciate it comment down below if you've read deserter and if you have it what are some of your favorite short stories that you think I should check out not necessarily spooky or Junji Ito just short stories overall thank you everybody once again god bless stay safe out there catch you guys on the next one


One thing is for sure that once NGN is fully realized then different services are provided on on the same on different networks and The same network provides different kinds of services now this Multi or this many to many scenario Requires that each service or each application is provisioned in the best possible manner for that the network must be controlled To configure and tailor these services and applications for different service users In this module, we should look at the network control architectures and protocol in NGN Once all services are provided Using the same infrastructure including the access side the core and the transit network There's a requirement of service provisioning which is more individual in nature because the end user must be kept aloof or should be Unaware of the complexity and the difficulty which is realized in Providing such service So the network control must be activated to provide tailor-made or custom services to the users or the same network For that the network control architecture and protocols is in is an important recommendation by the NGN Now this network control architecture which acts like an overlay network over Existing physical network is going to help realize this vision since there are different functions which must be provided to ensure smooth and Transparent delivery of services and applications from the end user's point of view These functions are provided by some very important network elements These network elements are deployed across the NGN at various locations We call them the different functional nodes These functional nodes each are required to perform their respective functionality for instance resource allocation and This resource allocation is of significance Significance once real-time services are being used and the users are requiring a certain level of quality of service Then quality of service must be ensured that it is provided and some kind of measurement mechanism should also be in place Since different networks are all integrated into a unified IP engine So different media are being used. So media translation is an important consideration So whatever media is being used I am talking about the soft media or the data The data formats which are used by different services would be now relayed across different networks Since the end user and this service provider Let's say in a client-serviced architecture are now configured on two different encoding standards so some kind of Cross-coding or trans-coding would be required. This also is an important functionality of the network control architecture Then the call and session control which is an important requirement because like In SS7 the call is established and the call is terminated in in in IP networks. It is some kind of Session initiation protocol the SIP kind of functionality which is required So network control architecture and protocols are all addressing those issues Then the service control for instance What level of service a certain user is authorized for and how this user is provided that kind of service by activating the network elements accordingly Now this NGN standard document promotes or recommends the usage of The we call it cuts the components of the shelf The components of the shelf could come from any other standardization body because it is ready to be utilized For instance a star two four eight is basically a signaling mechanism for the for for media gateway control when different kinds of media are Translated from one kind of network to another for instance if a voice call is initiated From IP network and it terminates on in on a PSTN then a star two four eight activates the right kind of media Gateway control which you in in in turn Manages a certain media gateway Then SIP is another kind of ready of the shelf Protocol that is pushed and Perpeted by the ITF so it can be used for call establishment call management call control CDRs and all that then there's another requirement of Defining the user to network and the network network interfaces It is important because some kind of clarity should be given in NGN to users that when Exactly is there call entering into the network from the customer premises to the network premises and Then some kind of border or some kind of Understanding should also exist between who is providing the service and who is providing the underlying infrastructure We call them the network provider the network operator and the service provider


We had a job in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was an unattended death, so we thought there was just bodily fluids in the floor. It went through the first layer floor, so the part where he passed was over a previous roof, so there was actually two subfloors, essentially. There was a ton of maggots. Those did start to travel to the floor below, so we had to go below and get rid of those. Along with large flies, those are pretty normal. I think the hardest part of any of these jobs for me is the initial smell. Once I came stomach that, it's just cutting out carpets and floors. The gentleman clearly enjoyed his beer, so there were plenty of beer cans everywhere. The toilet was pretty gross, so he was clearly sick for some time before his passing, but as far as the amount of things or the hoarding, he seemed to collect a lot of newspapers and beer cans, and other than that, it was pretty easy to get through.


It is seven past seven I think for most the level three extension came as somewhat of a shock yesterday and as for the rest of the country being stuck with two because of Auckland can't have made it a good Monday the Prime Minister is with us a very good morning to you. Good morning. Is it fair to suggest we shouldn't actually be here and this is all on you? No I think it's all on COVID Mike and when I continue to look around the world you know and we should because obviously every other country is having similar experiences either battling COVID trying to keep it out or dealing with research and so we are not alone in that and so no I'm not sure it is fair to make that statement. The border leaked and you're in charge of the border? Well we are still working extraordinarily hard to determine what it is that occurred with this particular cluster. Comprehensive testing across all border staff both at front line and of course we've reached into wider testing even at the peripheries of our ports still yet to determine what exactly happened here. We will keep hunting though because I do want to learn what happened in this situation however having said that we'd always prepared for it as well because there are very few countries in fact I can't name one that had a outbreak like ours managed to get down to community transmission and then hasn't seen some form of resurgence. So you don't think the border leaked? Well I haven't been able to determine we yet Mike and I've wanted to know that because of course that's how we can make those constant improvements and we have all the way through this period constantly sought to improve and change our response based on the evidence because the world has been living.  Sorry which what are you referring to specifics? You weren't testing at the border the border workers weren't being tested despite the fact you said they were. Not as comprehensively as we wanted to know so I've already run through this with you a couple of times. As you know we did have a regime in place that wasn't allowing us to data match to make sure everyone was being tested so we started doing it at the place of work. We then weren't getting the numbers high enough to give us confidence that we were capturing everyone on a regular basis but all of this is on you. And Mike that makes an assumption that that is where it came from and I'm not going to make any assumptions about what happened. Well where else did it come from? Well of course we've continued to run a few theories that we're trying to run down and you're probably better to ask a scientist for their reckons rather than mine but we have tested almost all our border workers and have not found it. We have tested our quarantine workers and have not found it. We've even done the genome sequencing of people who have been positive in our facilities and as yet have not been able to match it to what we have seen in this cluster. We've tested out our ports and have not been able to find it. There are a number of theories that extend outside of that whether or not people have reinfection after the fact after they've been tested. We've had theories around whether or not it's in cool store. We have not been able to prove anything yet Mike. I will take responsibility for our government's response but I also want to make sure that I know exactly what it is that didn't work here. Do you not think about things before you announce them? I'm thinking about the borders and the exemptions that you made people apply for to get in and out of the borders to come to work and then they did apply for them and they never heard back and therefore they couldn't go to work. Wasn't that always obvious and why didn't you think of that when you put that in place? Of course we think about all of these. That goes so wrong. Because Mike, sometimes we won't necessarily have the level of detail around who it is precisely that work, that live within the Auckland super city boundary but may work outside of that boundary. That's just a level of detail that no government agency would have. So what we have done is created class exemptions, basically those lists of exemptions. Those individuals do not need to seek permission to travel over the border. They just need to carry some evidence that they fit within those exemptions. So the list is pretty comprehensive. It's constantly being updated. When I spoke to the Health Team yesterday they still had a reasonable number of people applying that didn't need to so that has been one of the issues. Are you still claiming you're getting positive tests back in two days? The last time I checked in with Health and that was actually when we had higher testing numbers. We are getting them through the labs within that time so we don't have a backlog in our labs. So when people say they've waited four, five, six, seven days they're actually right? Not necessarily for the lab results. It may well be that results are coming back to their GP. It depends where they got tested by but if they are relying on their GP to send on results they can't account for whether or not that's causing delays. Was there any thoughts back yesterday in Cabinet to the decision at all or not? No, no, there was a little bit of discussion around what we might learn over the coming week but no, there was a consensus view on what we needed to do. Certainly based on the fact that if you remember last time we actually really got down into a very small number of cases before we saw ourselves moving to level two. But what we've all agreed is our constant approach here needs to be managing and stamping out cases with the fewest restrictions we can. So our viewers, once this cluster is under control, it is one we should be able to manage in a level two environment and that does need to be our ongoing goal. Any thought to moving this to a more apolitical setting? People like Gorman and Steven Joyce and Peter Gluckman and Bob Jones all think that this has got way too political, there are way too many buzzwords and we need some more economists and some more health professionals to make bolder decisions than the ones you're making. We make decisions based on health professional advice effects that we've always had the Director-General available to give us. But he's the only one. He is on the day of the decision and he of course utilises his own health chief science advisor in town. He of course is in touch with epidemiologists. The health advice we get is comprehensive advice and people can see whether or not we're listening to that on the day that we make those adjustments. So the answer to moving it to a more apolitical setting would be no then. So the suggestion that somehow that government should have no say and therefore... Didn't say no say. I just said a more apolitical setting. I quite see, A, how that would work and B, what Dez Gorman is suggesting here. We have used experts and evidence all the way through. In fact, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an example where we made a decision that wasn't informed by evidence and science. We of course then have the job of making sure that we're constantly weighing up the economic impact. It just so happens our view as a strong... Health view. Science evidence-based health view is the best way to support our economy. Should you be consulting the National Party and Shane Ritty more than you are? Our Minister of Health actually is staying in fairly regular contact design. Well, they claim they're not. Dr Ritty. I'd be interested in that because the last time I spoke to the Minister of Health, certainly he found that he was having really good, solid frequent engagement. Okay, I'll check with Judith Collins shortly. Are you looking at buying a chunk of Auckland Port? Whatever poll of what there, Mike. Because they're out of money and they've written to you four-page letter asking for it. Well, I get asked lots of... I have lots of requests and that does not mean that this government is actively considering it. So you're not at the moment. The Borodale case, are you embarrassed by that? No, no, not at all, in fact. The fact that lockdown was unlawful doesn't embarrass you? No, I don't think that that's a fair summary. I'd say our Attorney General would probably correct you on that. Of course he would. He should be embarrassed as well because he lost. It was an unlawful lockdown. The first nine days were unlawful. It's a statement of fact. That is a completely incorrect summation of that case. Mike, what it found was that actually we had good grounds in terms of protecting people's health for making the decisions that we did. They said that but they also said it was unlawful. Yeah, they did say that. So what they said... So what was wrong about me saying it was unlawful? Because they've also found that we had good grounds to have done what we did. So they've... I found it quite a balanced judgment in the end, Mike. Would you worry about losing to the Grey Mouth gas case? I can't comment on that. Because I just simply haven't been briefed on the Grey Mouth gas case and will just make any assumptions. You're being sued. I wouldn't want to say anything prematurely in a case we're engaged with either, Mike. All right. Do you look to take over in some way, shape or form either the Tauranga City Council or the Invercargill City Council? Why on earth are you making such suggestions? Because the Department has written to both of the councils looking for information that they may involve the role of the Minister in them. And you're suddenly making an assumption that we're going to take over... Well, that's one of the out-workings of the information they receive from the letter they seek to... The councils. Mike, if you've got a list of things that you want to run through this morning, then that is fine. If you're not aware of the Department writing to the councils asking for information of potential bacterial involvement. No, I think it's a ridiculous suggestion that we would take over a council or a port or, somehow, this morning that you would like me to get into the detail of a gas case. These are, well, the gas cases you have been sued. The port is you've been written to. That happens from all the time. And the councils, two government departments have written to the councils asking for information that potentially gets ministerial involvement. The idea that we are taking over a council, though, is incorrect. Neither council? No, Mike. Are you sure? Mike, when has this government ever taken over a council? Are you going to appoint anybody to run the councils is what I'm asking? No. Then why are you writing letters asking for information from the minister's department then? Look, Mike, I can't speak to that in detail, but no, we are not taking over a democratically elected council. Appreciate your time. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister.


and issues take one. It's 2024. I'm Tim Epichel, your host, and today's title is, In 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States decides Trump's future. 2024 will be an interesting year for many of us, and especially for Donald Trump, as he entertains 91 criminal indictments. And of recent, the two very important cases that need to be determined is one is whether or not Donald Trump will be allowed on the ballot in many states in the United States. And secondly, whether or not Trump is immune from his activities while serving as president of the United States. And to discuss those two topics, with me is my co-host, Jay Fidel. Good morning, Jay. Wow. What a show. What a subject. Glad to be with you, Tim. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to diving into this one because, you know, two years ago after the election, you and I, on this show and your show, discussed many times the 14th Amendment, Section 3. And we could probably say confidently that the media wasn't picking up on it. They are now, and they are now specifically because the state of Maine, the Secretary of State, said Donald Trump is not eligible to serve as a candidate on the election for 2024. And the Colorado State Supreme Court said the exact same thing. So we have two states in the union that said he shall not pass. So the question is whether or not the states get to stick with their opinions, or is it challenged up the appeals court and or to the Supreme Court? Your thought on the dilemma of where this thing goes, the 14th Amendment, Section 3, and how it applies to Donald Trump, and whether Donald Trump gets to remain on the ballot? That's multiple compound question, Tim. That's how I like to ask him, because that's how you do it to me. Okay. Well, where is it going? Well, you have Colorado, which is state Supreme Court. And you have Maine, which is, you know, just an elections official. But they both had evidentiary hearings at the Colorado General Jurisdiction Court before it got to the Colorado Supreme Court. And in Maine, the elections officer had a significant evidentiary hearing. So they both had tryers of fact, if you will, on the question primarily of whether this was an insurrection, which seems to be kind of obvious anyway. Then there are two states that rule the other way that said he is entitled to be on the ballot. One of them is California, and the other is Michigan. So you can see it's kind of political. You're not sure. I mean, to me, I don't see the Colorado case as political. I don't see the Maine case as political. Republicans are involved in those two cases, as the people who brought the action, so to speak. I don't know about California. I don't know exactly what happened there. And I don't know about Michigan, but I suspect that there were political maneuverings there. In any event, it's a very interesting question as to how this is going to play out. If you look at abortion, the Supreme Court said, okay, there's no constitutional right to abortion, so we don't let the states decide. So they let it go into chaos state by state, which was a ridiculous decision, but that's what we have. Now you have a situation where the Supreme Court can say, well, we're going to let it go back to the states and let the states decide that would be chaos in the election. Because it's not clear whether there would be a lot of states or a few states that would vote this way or that way with regard to their judicial decisions. However, this is a constitutional amendment. This question is decided under a constitutional amendment, and it's easy to say that this should be a national decision, because the vote we are talking about is national. And so I would expect, A, Supreme Court will rule on this, and B, that it will find whether it goes this way or that way, it'll find that it's ruling governance all states. So I think it's clear that the Supreme Court will take it and will hand down a decision that affects all states one way or the other. The question then is whether the Supreme Court will rule that he's on the ballot or off the ballot. And that's what we should talk about today. But keep in mind that Clarence doesn't want Trump to be off the ballot, and he will try to get his Republican and politicized majority on the court to vote with him. And he will not recuse himself, even though his wife was involved in a Trump campaign and the insurrection. She was involved in the insurrection. It's kind of interesting that Clarence would opine on the insurrection when his wife was an active and personal participant in the insurrection. But they're going to have to decide one way or the other, I think, and it's going to have to be a national decision. And I think if I went to guess, and it's a sad guess, really, that they will vote to leave Trump on the ballot, which is an absurdity. Because can I ask our engineer, Michael Bangolin, to put the language up on the screen? And if you don't mind in answering your question, I would like to read that language. Session three, disqualification from holding office. I'm going to read it because I think it's short, and I think every word counts. And they call it a post-Civil War amendment. But you know what? That's kind of an insult to it. It's an amendment. It was passed pursuant to the provisions for amending the Constitution. It was not simultaneous with the adoption of the Constitution itself. And so what? It was post-Civil War. So what? Would that make it less effective or more effective than it was incorporated in the Constitution itself? The answer is no. It's part of the Constitution. It doesn't matter when it was adopted. Anyway, it says no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or a elector of president and vice president. Here's the good part. Or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any state who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability. And I guess one issue was whether this was an insurrection, but for any court, in my view, to find that it was not an insurrection is to deny what we all saw with our eyes, a violent insurrection against the Congress. No question about it. We saw it. The evidence has been made clear. And it was investigated by the select committee in Congress. And we are all witness to what happened, all of us. Well, if you remember the district case, the district court case where the judge accepted the findings effects about the insurrection, that wasn't the issue. That judge in the district court said Trump may remain on the ballot because of the issue about officer. Well, that's going to resolve that. I'm breaking this down piece by piece. So first of all, this was an insurrection. I don't know how any reasonable, thoughtful person who reads and speaks the English language could find otherwise. In the United States, it's so clear. And yet, there are people who say, well, maybe it's not an insurrection. Or maybe it requires a criminal conviction. Section three doesn't talk about criminal conviction. It says insurrection. That's all it says. And engaged in, well, we saw him incite the insurrection. I would say that's engaging. And we know full well that he went back to his office and he watched it without doing anything to stop it for hours. And then he said, they love me. They love me. I mean, he had a relationship with them and evidence has come out that he was actually, he and his people are actually involved in organizing the insurrection. I mean, the evidence is all over the lot. So any court, I can't imagine a court, a judge or a jury finding this was not an insurrection. But, you know, that's an issue in front of the Supreme Court or will be. The next point, your point a minute ago is Trump is a president, an officer of the United States. Can we see that language one more time? Okay, it says or hold any office under the United States. That's the second and third line there. Okay, then it refers to an officer of the United States. When you take that together, somebody who holds an office under the United States or who is it and who or is an officer of the United States. Does that, is that doesn't include the president? If the president is not an officer of the United States and who is he? You know, Trapliva? Who is he? He's got to be an officer of the United States. For anybody to argue that the president who is the chief executive officer of the United States is not an officer of the United States is ridiculous. Well, he's an office holder. By definition, he's an officer. Yeah, well, I mean, it's clear. It's so totally clear. I don't know how. Well, the other thing that people are trying to throw in the mix is whether or not he took a proper oath, the proper oath of the president of the United States is that which refers to in the paragraph 14th Amendment section three. But the presidential oath is to support and defend the Constitution. It's another ridiculous argument. Correct. It is. It amazes me that, you know, some lawyers, academics usually and, you know, some commentators who need to who need to fill the airtime.  They need to fill the airtime so they generate these ridiculous arguments and schmooze around these ridiculous arguments on cable TV.  You know, you don't have to be past the third grade to read the language of this provision. And it's not ambiguous in any way. If you have engaged in or given a or comfort to an insurrection, after taking an oath, support and defend the Constitution, you cannot hold the office of the president of the United States. There's no rocket science there at all. It amazes me that people generate these ridiculous issues around it. But if you stopped somebody on the street and showed him that language and read that language, he would have no choice but to say, this applies. Well, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. I'll take the devil's advocate position here. And that is by barring Donald Trump from the ballot. That's undemocratic. Could you argue that it's very democratic to bar an insurrectionist from the ballot? I mean, how can you argue? How could you're an attorney? How could you argue that both ways? What I mean, democratic, that's we're dealing with section three of the 14th amendment. It's the only test. That's it. That's what we got. Whether it's democratic, whether it should be decided by the courts or a vote of the people, whether you flip a coin, doesn't matter. It's this. This is the language. So I don't think it's relevant to ask the question of democratic or everybody should vote for it. We should have some other decision process.  And that's the test. Right. You know, Timothy Snyder wrote an article which you passed on to us called the pitchfork ruling, which is to say there's a hesitancy to rule Donald Trump off the ballots as that might cause violence or insurrection after that point. But it's not the point of the Constitution to avoid such unpleasant situations. The point of the Constitution is the rule of law. Is it not? Yeah. It's section three of the 14th amendment. That's what it is. And Snyder made an interesting and important point. The Constitution is supposed to deal with pitchfork emotional concerns in the population. And that's why we have a Constitution. If we didn't have a Constitution, we'd be governed by pitchfork. And we can't throw it away, imagining that there's people out there who don't like it. That's what governs us. This is the Constitution we must live by. So if there are those who would carry pitchforks on this or any other issue, we have to look to the rule of law. Simple. And when they say, and a lot of commentators have said, oh, this is going to raise the ire of people and they're going to be out in the streets over it, they might be out in the streets on anything if we let them do that. We cannot be concerned about it because it is not the test. The pitchfork test is not the test. It's the Constitution that is the test. It's section three that is the text. Jay, I'm reminded of the 2000 election where the Supreme Court of the United States did in fact determine an election between George Bush Jr. and Al Gore. There were a lot of Democrats that weren't happy about it. I don't think they took to the streets with torches and pitchforks, but none of them said not my president. Well, that's their prerogative to say George Bush was not their president. But nevertheless, the Supreme Court decided an election. How is this same or different? Well, let me say that Donald Trump ain't no Al Gore. Or George Bush. Or George Bush. Well, yeah, Al Gore conceded the election. George Bush didn't say the things that Trump has been saying for every election back to 2016. So I think it's really remarkable that we tolerate. It is so outrageous for him to not agree with the popular vote, not agree with the constitutional vote of the election, and to claim power without any legal or constitutional basis for it. And I'm going back to this section here. If this section fails, if they gut this section, which I'm afraid the Supreme Court might very well do on grounds that are not logical and not reasonable and not consistent with the Constitution in general, and the nature of this country, if they gut section three, there will be no section three going forward. Zero. It will not exist. And that is a terrible precedent to have them gut a provision of the Constitution.  So I guess to try to answer your question, the Supreme Court here has the power to give Trump a place on the ballot or not. And the only correct answer is to keep him off the ballot because of this very important constitutional amendment. When they say that, oh, this is post civil war, I guess they're including, you know, a lot of these commentators you see on cable, they're saying, oh, this must be related to the civil war. It doesn't say that. It doesn't talk about the civil war. It's part of the Constitution. It is as powerful and important and generally applicable as any part of the Constitution. So I really, as I said before, I don't agree with the nomenclature when they try to link it up with the civil war. Well, you know, I could argue, we've said it for five, six, seven years is that the United States is in a sense a very cold civil war right now. Not a red hot one or a hot one, but it's a cold one of sorts. The population is polarized between the mega GOP and everyone else. So given that point, this, whether this was a civil war clause or not, and you're right, it doesn't mention anything about the civil war. Let me ask you this. I mean, so if there's some political forces abound, be it the Supreme Court or otherwise, that there's a concern about the reaction about taking Donald Trump off the ballot, what about the concerns of the political impacts and insurrection impacts of those that insist that he be taken off the ballot? What about their reaction? Oh, you know, that's why we have constitutions. That's why we have provisions in the Constitution. Not everybody will agree, but we have this matrix of laws, matrix of constitutional provisions. And this country is founded on the essential and founding ideas that we will abide by what it says. So if they don't like it, they're part of the country that needs to agree with the result. If they like it, they're part of the country that is obligated to follow the result. I don't, I think it matters if they're in the streets with pitchforks. And that's Tim Snyder's point. It doesn't matter if they're in the street with pitchfork. That's not a test. That's not in the Constitution. And if we throw away the Constitution in favor of worrying about pitchforks, we don't have a Constitution anymore. This is very serious what happens here, regardless of the result. So, you know, to me, I don't think that's an argument that plays a role. I mean, the nation does, over time, the nation gets used to the idea. I remember when Roe v. Wade was first decided. I was, I think I was a senior in high school.  But over the 50 years, I mean, people got used to it. And certainly in the first initial years, it took a while for people to get over that decision. But they did. Maybe they didn't. And maybe that's why it took 50 years to try to reverse it. But the point is, what's the value of applying a political solution to a legal question? Right. And that's the problem with the Supreme Court now. It's a political court because of the 63, you know, conservative, I mean, politically conservative majority, where you can predict they're going to do conservative on every case, or very nearly every case. So, you know, the problem for me is you talk about a country that is governed by the Constitution. Well, part of that is you have to have trust and confidence in the institutions that are created by the Constitution. If the Supreme Court is not worthy of our trust and confidence, what then? If Supreme Court rules against the plain language of this amendment, which we looked at a minute ago, then, you know, what do we have here? We cannot be confident. I mean, I'm losing confidence. I have lost confidence in them already. But I'm not 330 million Americans. If 330 million Americans read it as English, and they find arcane ways and arguments to get around it, all in favor of Trump, what are people going to think? What is the country going to think? It will erode public confidence, even among the people who support the result. And our Constitution and our country will be in great jeopardy for the lack of confidence in the institutions created by the rule of law. You know, thinking of one of the higher officers, not of the United States, but one of the higher executives that were prevented from being placed on a ballot for President of the United States. And that was Jefferson Davis. I'm sure there were many southern states that wanted to see his name on the ballot for President of the United States, but that didn't happen. And I suspect that was a very patriotic and democratic thing to do. He tried to over, well, he did. He succeeded the leaders of the session from the United States. Interesting. You know, it's like Al Gore. He exceeded to the law. In this case, the law had been confirmed by Lincoln and, you know, by the North in that war. Let me add too that, you know, there's the whole issue that came up with Nikki Haley about what the Civil War was about. And she came up with this third grade kind of explanation. It was about, you know, the rights of the North versus the South or something really mush. All free people. I didn't get it either. But it was my right. You know, I don't know what she was saying, but she didn't talk about slavery or enslavement. And in a recent article, I don't know if you noticed it by that writer that we both like, Heather McCox Richardson. She went through it in some detail. Exactly, you know, what Lincoln's view of the world was and the problems that he had in expressing his opposition to slavery. It was a real issue involving a lot of states that wanted to have slavery through and even after the Civil War. And so he was able to settle that down and save the Union and toss slavery. What an incredible guy. And I don't know if we give him full credit. She did. Heather McCox Richardson explained, you know, the issues and problems and machinations and strategies that were involved in getting rid of slavery. But I think we have to recognize that the Union was in great jeopardy then. And I think we have to recognize that the Union is in great jeopardy now. Great point. Well, speaking of jeopardy, let's talk about the the appeal that Donald Trump's attorneys throughout today. And that is to argue the point whether or not the President of the United States, any President of the United States, but specifically Donald Trump is immune from prosecution, be a criminal or civil, while holding a seat as President of the United States. I think this one's pretty clear, pretty straightforward. But what's your thought about the attempt to say that Donald Trump is immune from political, excuse me, from criminal or civil liabilities? It's poppycock as every argument that he makes. And he's just thrown it on the wall to see if it sticks. And the other thing, tactically, he's trying to push those trials off.  And it won't happen right away. You know, Jack Smith was, I'm sure, disappointed to find Supreme Court would not handle that issue on an expedited basis. So we'll have to see when they come up with something. If they don't decide it until after the election, that gives Trump a tremendous, tremendous benefit. You know, in today's news, I heard the grand bargain being thrown out there. The grand bargain is, well, the Supreme Court will allow him to be remain on the ballot. But as compensation, they'll expedite the trial dates. They won't string it out and delay it. I thought that was incredibly crazy that the Supreme Court would act as some kind of political blind justice, if you will. That's not in section three of article 14. That's that's making it out of whole cloth. It sounds like one of those untoward negotiations and quotes that happen in the Middle East where nobody is serious. That's not serious. Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court does that again, they would lose all credibility. There's no negotiation here. It's either he's on the ballot or off the ballot. And that is a matter of law. And may I say the English language. Thank you. What do you think? And I know this is a, you know, sometimes I'm prone to asking a silly question now and then. What do you think would happen if Donald Trump prevailed and he was seen to be immune for his actions as President of the United States? What would this country go? What would this country be like? Well, we've talked about that, haven't we? We talked about what would happen on day one, where he would turn the country, you know, in one business day, he would turn the country into an autocracy and make himself a dictator. We wouldn't, we wouldn't have to worry about day two because by day two, it would already be an autocracy, wouldn't it? So if he, if he is able to prevail on one or both of these issues, that is, if he can stay on the ballot and if he can get a determination from the Supreme Court, ridiculous determination that he is immune from criminal prosecution. And if he wins, as we have discussed, it's really the end of the United States as we have known it. And there's no other way to look at it. You know, we talked about this years ago that the Department of Justice wrote a memo saying President of the United States is immune from prosecution while sitting in the chair as President, criminal or civil prosecution. The remedy for the President would be impeachment. That's the only remedy. So let's, let's, let's move forward and say the Supreme Court decides definitively that no President is immune from criminal or civil prosecution. How does that send a message to all future presidents? Do you think we get, we avoid in the future the Richard Nixon's of the world, people that become president think they could do what they want as they want, when they want. Would that be a healthy thing to get a Supreme Court decision defining what immunity is for the president? You're begging the question. Always. What else is new? The answer is, you know, we don't, we want to say to presidents they can do anything we want, anything they want.  We lose the rule of law. If they do crimes, they need to be prosecuted and convicted and impeached, whatever it is. And, and my, my concern is that if, if we make him immune, we, we will have no control over what he does or less control. And we cannot afford to do that. So, I mean, we want to tell the presidents, all presidents, Republican, Democrat, everybody that they should not commit crimes while they were in office, period. Remember the prophetic statement he's said as a candidate in 2015 that if I shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, no one would care. Basically, that was the, his, his statement. I guess he really believed it because he's asking for the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals at this point that he is immune. Well, at the time he said that it was a ridiculous statement.  However, he is trying to create an environment where it wouldn't be ridiculous that he could shoot somebody in Fifth Avenue and he would be immune from prosecution. I mean, I think it's amazing even to incontinence this, even to consider it by anyone. But here we are considering another outrageous statement. You know, it's not just that Trump lies 30,000 times in office. It's not just that. It's also that he makes outrageous statements and people take it. His base takes it and a lot of other people take his statements, which are completely outrageous and give them credence of some kind. It runs in parallel to all the lies. We cannot afford to accept that. We have to use our education, our critical thinking skills and not accept that from him or anyone else. That's the price of democracy. Well, lying is one of the top tenets of propaganda and quite effective for those that aren't prepared for it, that don't recognize propaganda when they hear it, when they see it, and then when they see people repeat it. So, spot on Jay. Last words, we're out of time. Last words for either his immunity request, his appeal for immunity, or where we stand right now with the 14th Amendment Section 3 and state's decisions to either keep him on the ballot or remove him. I'll go in reverse order. As I mentioned, I think the language of this section is so clear, and it really bothers me that academicians and scholars even, they have to fill the time on the media by coming up with some kind of news story on it. But the fact is, it's clear. There are no good arguments against it, none. And I'm very pessimistic, however, what the Supreme Court might do. But I think in the truth of it and the reality of it, there are no issues. He is not qualified. He did an insurrection. He organized, he planned it, and he gave aid and comfort afterward. And he took an oath of office. And he definitely, as an officer was an officer of the United States, we cannot afford to have him, just as the proponents of this amendment said in the first place, we cannot afford to have him be an officer of the United States again. He is disqualified by every word in that section. On the question of immunity, what immunity? There's no immunity in the Constitution. There's no immunity in the law. If some untoward politicized member of the DOJ said that he should not be prosecuted, that is not the law. And the presumption is that if you conduct a crime, the justice organizations in this country should prosecute you. And a jury, if you like, should be impaneled to rule on guilt and innocence. And you need to pay a price. We have to have accountability. If we don't have accountability, we will have autocracy. We'll have dictatorship. And the country will go into further decline. We are already in decline because of what Trump was doing in his first term. In his second term, he could really put the pennies on the eyes. All right, Jay. I like how clear you are on this topic, because it's probably one of the important topics that we'll see for many, many years to come. And certainly in 2024, I want to thank you for your contribution. I'd just like to add that when we discuss the 14th Amendment, Section 3, we look at the oath of office that Donald Trump took any politician takes. And that is the support and defend the Constitution of the United States. And somehow, I don't know, when you try to stop the transference, a peaceful transition from one president to the next, and you mix in an insurrection in the middle of it. And in fact, he did. He did stop the peaceful transference. There was a delay. And we'll see if he's guilty of that with the criminal case against him. But as far as 14th Amendment, Section 3, as you say, Jay, it's clear as you read it. And with that, let me add one other point I don't think the media makes enough attention to it. They say, this is an insurrection. This is an attempt to defer the vote. This was more than that. This was an attempted coup, C-O-U-P coup. That's outrageous. That is- Yeah, that kind of gets lost in the discussions on TV, doesn't it? It's treason. It's undoing the government in order to achieve your own power. It's taking the reins of power without any legal basis whatsoever. And that's what he did. So to me, it's not only insurrection, it's worse than insurrection. Great point. Thank you, Jay. Join us next week for American Issues Take One. I'm Tim Appichelle, your host. And by the way, if you like what you just saw in this program, click like and follow us. We'd really appreciate that. And until next week, aloha.


So here is a very simple hair mask consistent of only coconut milk, avocado, and hair oil. So I'm going to go ahead. I have a, they are about half a cup of the coconut milk, but I ended up using actually one cup in the end. I'm going to slice up half of an avocado, add in two tablespoons of my hair oil mixture, and blend this up. I will be having everything below in the description box. This is going to turn out to be a very creamy hair mask. I'm trying the hair mask to freshly washed hair, and I was very, very liberal with the amount of product that I added to my hair because I have a lot of hair. And I just wanted to make sure that it was penetrating my strands. Now I did go back after applying it twice to each section, I added some more hair oil. I just felt like it needed it. I'm going to end up leaving this on for about 30 minutes. The way it went on, I feel indifferent about it, and I'm going to explain more towards the end how I feel about this mask. Um, Matt, this is something you have to keep in mind though. I have fairly healthy hair to begin with. It feels soft. My curls are popping, but you have to try it yourself to find out. For me personally, it's not a hair mask I would do again. But if I were to do again, I would add a lot more ingredients. I wanted to keep the DIY as simple as possible because I know y'all don't have as much Matt as some of you may. But I think your average viewer is not going to have all the stuff that I may have. So keeping the recipe as simple as possible, but if I were to do this again, I would add honey and I would definitely add a rinse out conditioner like Suave. Oh yes, and I think I would get better results. This is what the back looks like. But yeah. Like I said, try it out. Let me know. That is it you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Take care. Bye.


From VOA Learning English, this is the economics report. Many ties joined protests in Bangkok last year. They urged Prime Minister Yingluk Shenawat to deal with the growing problem of corruption in their country. How much economic activity is lost to corruption is difficult to estimate. The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce studied the issue not too long ago. The university found that more than 2% of all of the goods and services produced in Thailand or worth about $11 billion will likely be lost to corruption this year. According to the researchers, many business people say they are paying more to Thai officials and politicians to win government contracts. Political economist Pasuk Panchaychit says there is evidence that officials are making progress in controlling low-level corruption. But, she says, the slowing world economy means growing competition for profitable deals with the government. Bondit Nichata Wan is a former central bank official and president of the Thai Institute of Directors. He says corruption in Thailand appears to be more of a problem now than it was 10 years ago. And the problem affects more than Thailand. The American-based Center for International Policy says that more than $2.7 trillion in illegal funds left China between 2001 and 2010. The money left as a result of criminal financial deals, corruption, tax evasion or other illegal activities. For Thailand, the amount was $64 billion during the same period. In 2003, the United Nations passed a convention against corruption, but observers say the fight against corruption needs to go beyond law enforcement. They say it must include non-governmental organizations and private industry groups. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


So, in the last video, this is part of the series, be sure to check out the link in the description for the full playlist. We looked at how to put processes in the background, such as top or whatever program is currently running by pressing Ctrl Z and suspending it in the background. Now, let's say you want to throw a process in the background to have it keep running, but continue with another command. You can do that by typing out. Let's do this as an example. I'll say sleep one. I'll say sleep five for five seconds and echo hello. So it should, if we were to do it this way with a semicolon, which indicates a new command, it's going to wait five seconds. And then after five seconds, it's going to echo out hello, and we'll say hello world, just hello in this case. If we do the ampersand, the and symbol, it's going to right away throw the sleep command into the background, and then it's going to echo hello without waiting for the sleep command. And then after five seconds, the sleep command finished, as you can see. So we can also do this a few different ways. So I can say run this command and this command. So what it did was start it up sleep for five seconds through that in the background, echo it out hello through that in the background, but then it completed and displayed it. And then it started this at the same time and completed it. And then five seconds was up and the sleep command finished running. This can be very useful if you want to have a shell script that's doing multiple things at once. You can continue running processes in that aspect. And again, it still does give you the foreground number, which you should be able to pull to the foreground. Let me see something here. Let me just say one minute here, foreground one. So again, as I said in the previous video, I'm having issues with my Z shell setup. But in Bash, if I was to run the same command, I'll highlight that and paste it in by center clicking. I should be able to foreground one and it brings me back to my sleep command. That's how the foreground command, the FG command is supposed to work. So as always, I thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to like, subscribe, share, comment. Let me know what you think. I'm trying to get through these basic things that a lot of you may know in these first couple of weeks so we can get some more fun things. Thank you for watching. As always, I hope that you have a great day.


Hey everybody Welcome to a I guess like a different kind of video. I don't know. I wanted to try something different do something new I I'd like I think to do a little bit of content or experiment with like videos that aren't strictly on the keyboard They're kind of just me like I don't know being me or kind of unscripted just a casual thing It's just something that I wanted to experiment with so I I think about this a lot to be honest I think about content. I think about Production but like getting stuff out into the ether into the world a lot. It's something that my mind kind of obsesses over Primarily because I feel either like guilt that I'm not feeding the YouTube algorithm as consistently as I should or guilt and just me wanting to get stuff out there like this is this is fun This is a passion. This is where I kind of feel like the most fulfilled or when I'm when I'm doing something I feel productive when I am doing this whatever this happens to be If if it had a name So I watch some other YouTube channels like kind of on my own right You know everyone has kind of the channels that they like or the stuff that are interested in and I watch a coffee zilla Who's excellent exceptional? I will link his channel in the description if anyone's is kind of interested in that But he recently went through a thing where he was doing 100 video uploads in 100 days and he produced a video just kind of discussing the pros and cons of it and one point that he brought up Actually a lot of the points that he brought up for the benefits or that it it will just straight up cure your writer's block or whatever is mentally hindering you being able to Create and make stuff And and that's something I struggle with all the time not even just like ideas like I have an endless list I have a laundry list of stuff that I would like to go through and showcase and you guys send me lots of great stuff And you guys request and ask hey John. Can you do something on this? I'm like that would be awesome That's a great idea but like Pressing the record button.  That didn't sound good or oh shoot I'm not doing this the way that I really wanted it to be and that was another point was He brought up this notion that like dude your perfectionism just falls to the wayside And I think that is super-duper important because a lot of times I think when we do what we do in the security creator space and fellow security content creators right and then I'll add another link in the description for a Incredible list of the folks because I'm sure we can enumerate we can list off all these other great content creators But there are so many and it's so good. It's it's a growing community and it's lovely But when security creators produce there's like this desire to make it perfect and bundled up wrapped in beautiful like Gift wrapping and it's a present of education and learning But at the same time I know there are a lot of folks that say hey No, I want that raw experience of the hardship the struggle of like genuinely learning and that's always a balancing act So even when myself or others try to do something and we showcase our mistakes And we showcase the rabbit holes that we fall into those are maybe valuable as well So there's even more outside of that right? There's there's the there's the life behind it that is Struggling with not even the content itself, but like that ideas the concepts the stuff of of Making things I don't even know where I'm going. I I Always battle with Getting out content and doing this thing with everything else that I kind of like to do in my life Whether it's the actual human being stuff like okay IRL in real life like spend time with my family my Like spend time with my family spend time with my friends spend time with my dogs go do social things be a human being in this world in this moment that I'm in right now and My own learning right like I want to study I'm going through oh said right now the offensive security exploit development course And I would like to chat a little bit about that kind of in videos like this or Doing my actual day job right doing the doing my full-time gig that actually pays the bills But I know that I would like to still talk and chat with each and every one of you like I still Do my very very best even though it is insanely overwhelming to respond to everyone that I can Whenever they message me or send me a DM or send me a email or send me a notification or send me a ping or send me a request or Etc etc etc and it's just something that I always want to do because I I don't know it's so Fulfilling and that's a lot of fun. So But it's a balance right it's a balance of doing all these things Because I would like to sharpen my own skills. I'd like to learn I'd like to grow and study I'd also like to develop like create tools like make other cool things that help me or other people But I also want to be creating content and teaching and instructing and doing stuff like this I also kind of need to be in the in the coffee zilla video. He shows an excellent clip from I Think it's the daily show.  I'm like, oh, that's such a great way to put it But some I'd like to do and I'm so I'm experimenting with so even if it's just casual conversations or casual videos like this I don't know. I have no idea if people would ever watch this sort of thing surprisingly somehow I think a lot of people do watch videos that are just kind of talking heads on YouTube, but I Don't know what I would be able to bring you the table in that We'll still have lots of cool conversations about like what's going on. What am I up to whether or not studying for OSED other mental Predicaments that I'm kind of unraveling working through and want to I don't know maybe share with you or news like Hey, what the heck's going down the hack the box cyber apocalypse CTF is on right now It's getting started today as I upload this hopefully as I release this so There's that and I think those would be very very cool. Also on that note I do want to be showcasing some cool stuff And if we were to actually do this kind of video, I'd like to this kind of style every now and again I think it would be cool add a little bit more to it So I love to capitalize on some other Greatness I created in my discord channel and my discord server I created a channel called jh memes. So yes, yes, we can still have some fun We can still goof off. We can still kind of be crazy And I and I'll showcase some memes and I'll bring them up here like I think I can switch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah One of the top ones here over my discord server. There's a good a good joke whenever new people arrive in the server I'm always so much more happy and interested like oh welcome. Welcome.  We've been here. We're your buds We're here for you forever Like the good old jealous girlfriend one. Those are a lot of fun. What else we got? some Jurassic The Jurassic Park John Hammond Morphed in a morphed with me John Hammond. Oh That's I don't like it. I'll be honest. I don't like it. It's kind of it's kind of weird me out But please hey jump in please have some fun I think a lot of people are what might enjoy this and get a chance to meme out with the community Maybe that'll be a good time And I've also thought like hey, maybe we could do some other Stupid Dumbo Like react not reaction videos is totally not the right word But like going through either like internet safety public safety announcements PSAs or like info Mercials that are just awful and hilariously bad and we can goof off in that regard too But I'd like to slowly pour in different kinds of content that aren't just strictly me going in on the keyboard But I still want to be doing that stuff like I still got plans for pico and a lot of folks are asking him on that Obviously still try hacking me. Obviously. It's a little bit of hacked a box whenever I can obviously malware analysis Obviously the stuff that I do and hopefully even more but then again, I don't want to be Announcing this as if it's some promise or actual announcement. This is me again Experimenting just kind of seeing hey, can I do this? Is this a challenge? Is this something that folks who are people would even be interested in seeing or doing or being along for the ride? But I don't know. I don't know The whole thing I want to get across is is I don't know But I don't even know what to call these sort of videos, but I've had like thoughts to do this sort of thing for a while When I used to commute to work when I used to drive like an hour to an hour and I have to get to work every day I would think about like oh, let's let's Maximize my productivity even when I'm doing nothing. Let's record a podcast all the way into work or something It just get like audio content And I would try but I would still stumble over myself and struggle with that even in the moment as I'm doing now Right, so I don't know. Let's just try it. Let's just play with it. I'm gonna be goofing off I'm gonna be having a good time. I don't know if you guys are interested in these videos Let me know maybe leave you.  You're you're driving yourself into the ground Or I mean hey, yeah If these are other videos to kind of maybe fill in the gaps or covers cover some other dead air when it's not Strictly cyber strictly security on the keyboard. Maybe that'd be kind of fun And yeah, we'll be doing other live streams. We'll be doing other stuff. I hope to But I'd like to turn the crank and I and I repeatedly battle with myself And I repeatedly say this over and over and over again, but it's not a something for you It's something for me something for me to get in my head and Do more Okay, that's enough hopefully I'll be able to do more days. Thanks so much for being with me. Thanks. Let me know What do you think? I love you guys. I'll see you in the next video.  We haven't I haven't seen a video in a bit. Are you good? Super cute super heartwarming. So thanks mom. I really love it and I really appreciate it Yeah, yeah, I'm doing all right, but it's that's the thing. I maybe I gotta make more maybe it's the way that I Keep my life Centered Thanks mom mama Hammond shout out to you. Love you