The apt package manager is a very good package manager and it is well used if you use Debian or Ubuntu or anything based on Debian or Ubuntu you use apt and it is well used for a reason. It is one of the best out there and it does its job very well. There's not a lot of negative things that you can say about it. That doesn't mean however that there aren't things that it can approve upon. One of the things that seems to be missing is parallel downloads and when it comes to other package managers that have this it kind of makes apps seem old and slow. So there are developers out there that are trying to improve apt and one of those developers have created a program called Nala. Nala is a front end for apt that does several things very well including adding parallel downloads to the apt system. So what we're going to do today is talk about Nala and by the end of it I think that even if you don't use Debian or Ubuntu you'll find that Nala is just really cool and if you're like me you'll be a little bit jealous over how it looks and how it works. So let's go ahead and look at Nala. So this is the Nala GitLab page and the only criticism I really have of Nala is that their documentation isn't here. So they have installation instructions but all of the syntax and stuff for Nala is going to be found on the man page and you can't find it on their website. So if you are not interested in looking at a man page you're going to be out of luck in terms of knowing how to use this thing. But that's really the only criticism I have. So first let's talk about installations. So if you're using Debian or Ubuntu you can just do sudo apt install Nala and it'll work just fine. If you are on another Debian based distribution that doesn't have it in the repos or doesn't use the default Debian repositories you can install it fairly easily by adding a PPA and those instructions are here and fairly easy to do. You just copy these here and then you copy this one here and then you do this one here. I'm on Linux Mint and those instructions worked fine. I couldn't do the sudo apt install Nala because it wasn't in the repositories there but these three repositories here work just fine. Once it's installed the next question is how to use it and that's where my criticism from a moment ago really comes in because I looked on the wiki here and there's just not anything here in terms of how to use it. So you have to use the man page. So if you do man Nala once it's installed you get this and the syntax is not hard. If you're familiar with apt at all the syntax is mostly the same. The difference comes in is what those commands do. So for example if you use Nala install and then you have it install multiple packages it will install those simultaneously up to three. The Nala remove and the Nala purge do basically the same thing that apt does when you use those same commands but the Nala remove will also auto remove packages that are associated with it. So it will take out dead dependencies and stuff like that. The Nala update and Nala upgrade commands do basically the same thing that you would expect when it comes to updating and upgrading your system. The update will refresh the mirrors. The upgrade will actually install all the updates. So the syntax here is not only very similar to apt but very easy to get a hold of. So let's take a look at what this will do. So first let's install something. Let's install Crusader just for the hell of it. So we will do sudo Nala install and then Crusader like so. And then let's also install something else. So let's just say telegram desktop. Let's see if that's in the repositories. I'm actually sure. So we'll enter here. We'll enter our password and this is what Nala looks like. So as you can see the first thing that is different is that there is a lot of more color coding here than there is an app because app doesn't have any. And there is a little bit more structure to the output. So it's telling you it's installing all these things, the dependencies, and then the things that are suggested that aren't going to be installed or colored differently. And that tells you basically how much space is going to be required to install those things. You hit yes. And then it's going to install this thing. And this you can see is almost completely different than what app will look like. Not only is it installing things simultaneously, but it's not listing them out one by one when it is downloading them. It just has a progress bar, which is really nice. Once you get into the point where it's actually installing things, it does list them out one by one, but it has the progress bar along the bottom and it's color coded and it doesn't continuously scroll. It just, or at least the whole screen, it just scrolls in this little part of the terminal, which is, again, very nice. And as you can see, I'm downloading Crusader. It has a lot of dependencies because it's a KDE project. And it was actually really fast. So one of the criticisms for app is that it's pretty slow. Nala takes care of some of that issue. So we're done. It's installed. So I can actually go to another workspace here and open up Crusader. And here we go. We now have Crusader installed just like so. We have Crusader. Don't judge Crusader based on that look. It's obviously not been themed yet, but it's still just as amazing as it always has been. So that's installing a package. What does updating and upgrading look like? So let's say we wanted to just update the repositories. We don't want to do any upgrades. So we can do pseudo Nala update like so. It's going to usually it will ask for a password. But I've already done that in this session. So as you can see, those repositories and mirrors have already been updated just a few minutes ago when I did an install something different. So there was not a lot here that it would do. But it will also tell you how many packages can be upgraded. So if you want to upgrade, you can do pseudo Nala upgrade. Now, the one thing that's really nice about Nala, other than the things we've already talked about so far, of course, is that when you do apt, you have to do pseudo apt update and an pseudo apt upgrade. You have to do both of those commands in order for your update to work. Because the first one checks if there are updates. The other one updates the things. And with Nala, it combines the two. So I wouldn't have even had to do the Nala update part. If I just do Nala upgrade, it will actually refresh those mirrors and upgrade the system all at once. So if I hit Enter here, you can see that it refreshed the mirrors and then it's going to now update the system. So there are some things that aren't going to be updated. I just hit Yes here. And then it's going to show me all the things that have an update available. I'll hit Yes again. And it looks very similar to installing packages because that's basically what it's doing. It's updating. Right now it's downloading the updates that are available. And then it will install them. And it does so just like it did the packages for Crusader. One of the cool things is that it shows you the speed that it is downloading things at, the size of the package that you're downloading, or the packages that you're downloading, and the time remaining. So if you're downloading something that is really big, like the thing I'm downloading now, it will show you how long you have left for that thing to download. Once it's downloaded all that stuff, it will then update the packages just like so. And just like with all the other scenarios, it has a little progress bar there. And once it's done, it's done. So the benefits of Nala are that it's faster because the parallel downloads, and it gives the app output a lot of color and a few extra very pretty things like the progress bars. And I think, like I said at the beginning, that some of this stuff will make other package managers a little bit jealous. So some of the output here looks a little bit like DNF, so like when we scroll back up here, the output of the packages it's going to install and stuff like that looks a little bit like DNF does minus the color coding. But the progress bars and stuff like that are things that not a lot of other package managers have. And it makes me a little bit jealous. It doesn't really make me want to go start using a Debian or Ubuntu-based distro. It's not quite that awesome, but it's still really nice. So if you do use Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, whatever, I would highly suggest giving Nala a try. It's easy to install, it's easy to use, and it might speed up your update and upgrade process. Hey there, Matt from the feature, just kind of dropping in here because there's something that I forgot to talk about in the video, and that is a command called Nala Fetch. And what this does is it allows you to choose the fastest mirrors closest to you. And honestly, I'd completely forgotten about this because this is the first thing that I ran when I installed Nala when I was testing it out before I started the video. But I figured I needed to show it on camera. So what does Nala Fetch do?  What it's going to do is it's going to Fetch the Ubuntu mirrors and then rank them. So this will take a little while because it's going to test quite a few mirrors and that will take a little while. Like with the rest of Nala, it has a very nice interface with a progress bar and stuff like that. I wish it would tell you how long it had left to test, but I can understand why that would not be there. Once it's done testing, you'll get this screen here and then you can choose the mirrors that you want to keep. So you would do this by choosing the ones that are closest to you based on score or at least the fastest ones based on score. So in my case, I do one, probably two, probably three, probably four, probably five. And you can choose as many as you want. They're space separated. You could choose all the way up to 16 if you'd like to. And the thing to remember is that you get three parallel downloads per mirror that you use. So each one of these can download three different things at a time. The more you choose, the more parallel downloads you have. I'm not sure if there's a limit or anything like that. I'm not sure about that. But according to the things that I've read, you get three per mirror and it kind of rotates between the mirrors. So it kind of tries to find the fastest way to get the package that it's downloading. So once you hit, once you've selected the mirrors that you want, you hit enter and it'll ask you if you're sure. Hit yes and you're done. And that will make it so that the downloads that you're choosing are coming from the fastest mirrors possible. I would suggest making Nala into an alias. So if you wanted to have something like just use Nala and then the package name, like that you could create a bash alias or a ZSH alias for that. Or if you're really familiar with apt and you kind of have that muscle memory, you could alias apt update, apt upgrade to Nala upgrade, and then it would use Nala instead of apt. So that would allow you to use Nala even if you mistakenly type in apt. So that is definitely something that I'd recommend doing if you're going to use Nala. So that is Nala.  And I think that it has the potential to become very, very popular, very, very fast simply because it does make apt better. And when you create something that makes something else that is already pretty good better, you have a good chance of catching a lot of attention. I know that this has been covered quite a bit. So it's definitely caught the attention of a lot of people. I will leave links to Nala in the video description. If you have comments about Nala or any other things that I've covered in this video, you can leave those in the comment section below. You can follow me on Twitter at the next cast. You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description just below the like button. If you could hit the like button that really helped me out, that really just makes the video so much better. 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Hey, John Crestani here. And I'm going to talk about how to save a lot of money fast. Now I've saved millions of dollars personally. And I'm going to go over my top three steps for saving lots of money fast in this video. Get out of pen, get out of notepad and let's get it. So the first step to saving a lot of money fast is to literally just make a list of all your expenses. Most people have not taken the actual time to list out all of their individual expenses that they have each month. And it really helps to list them out in a Google sheet, so you can actually just see everything visually. Write down what the expense is, what day it's due, and what the charges on your card will be. And then just break things down into different categories, rent, utilities, personal business, et cetera, and list them out. One good app that we use in my family is Mint, which is great at categorizing a lot of expenses automatically for us. 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The second step you want to take is focus on increasing your income. Lots of people only focus on saving money and not making more money. I know Susie Orman and Dave Ramsey and all these big financial viewers only talk about saving money, but you're never going to become rich. You're never going to have substantial savings if that's all you focus on. You need to focus on increasing your money because then you have more to save. And you can only do so much saving from the current amount you're earning. Increasing your income needs to be a constant priority for you. Be willing to take time away from recreation to focus on income growth. I have a lot of videos where I show you people how to make money online. What I do to make millions of dollars a year called affiliate marketing. Now, when that new money comes in, save it instead of blowing it right away. I know a lot of people in my industry who make a lot of money, but they spend it just as fast as they get it. 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You can always start off small, but this gives you more and more and more and more time in the day to work on your business, doing things that are not duplicatable, things that require your brain. And that's more money you save because you're being more productive. And if you do everything yourself, you barely have time to even make more money. Many of us are stuck in this quandary where we just don't have time to do anything else. Outsource the things that don't make you money directly to somebody else. Then take the freshly open time block and focus on more income producing activities. Again, just take the new money you're making from these and actually save it. Some examples of what I do is instead of doing a lot of marketing myself, I teach it to others, help them become affiliate marketers for my product. Because again, I know that posting messages, sending DMs on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and YouTube and posting ads on YouTube and Google and Facebook all make money. 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And I'd like you to pass you over to our moderator for the next panel, Professor Colin Jackson who is with us from the strategy department. Thank you. So today's panel or the closing panel here is entitled National Security in the Maritime Force. Very broad topic but we were blessed to have a tremendous array of speakers here to talk to you on this issue. It's certainly a pleasure for me to introduce them, it's a treat for you to hear them. And I want to emphasize a couple of things in opening one. What is special about this panel is on one level the range of expertise and professional backgrounds on this panel. You're not only going to hear from scholars but also from distinguished practitioners, legislators who have dealt with the array of issues, some of which have been raised this morning and some of which we will explore here later. I'd add a second piece though and I think it's critically important. The common denominator on this panel is extensive and selfless public service and in a society where selfless service is somewhat of a deficit these days you're looking at a panel that has gone above and beyond in various capacities in the United States government. I do want to start with a thought here and this is connected to some of the themes that were raised on the first panel by several of the distinguished speakers thereafter. And I want to reference back to a very old book, Strategy and the Missile Age published in 1959 by Bernard Brody. He wrote an interesting book and the chapter in this book, Strategy and the Missile Age, was entitled Strategy Wears a Dollar Sign. And in it he has this sort of interesting call, again remember 1959. He says, we do not have and probably never will have enough money to buy all the things we could effectively use for our defense. The choices we have to make would be difficult and painful even if our military budget were twice what it is today. The fact that we are dealing with a less or some only makes choices harder and more painful. And so what I've asked the panel to do within the broad purview of talking about strategic challenges, how that might relate to resources and attention, which are always finite, I'm looking forward to your hearing from the panel members. So first I'd like to introduce the Honorable J. Randy Forbes, Congressman, for a number of years from the Hampton Roads region in Virginia. He served 16 years in the House of Representatives. He brings almost unparalleled experience on the legislative side in dealing with the issues that are most current and most important for this audience. He served as chairman of the subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces from 2013 to 2017. He also served as chairman of the subcommittee on Readiness from 2011 to 2013. In both of those capacities he was not only a legislator but an expert on a series of issues directly relevant to our discussion today. That is Navy policy, shipbuilding programs, weapons procurement, naval aviation, long range bombers, and far more. So it is my pleasure to turn the floor over to Congressman Forbes for his thoughts. Well thank you and I want to first of all thank Dr. Jackson for moderating our panel today. Thank all of you for allowing us to be here and let me just tell you what an honor it is for me to be with Eric and Sarah and I always tell Eric when I just get to sit behind by osmosis I pick up so many good ideas. So it's a delight to be on this panel and when I looked around today I know that many of you have been immersed for the last several months in strategic thinking and in national defense issues and so I had succumbed to the temptation that I was going to come in here today and immerse you further in some of those data points with the hopes of perhaps opening up additional avenues of thought for you. But I changed all of that yesterday when Mike Sherlock who's become a very dear friend of mine stopped my my office and we were talking so I'm going to blame this all on Mike but as we were talking we were talking about this panel we were talking about these students and Mike said something that was very interesting he said Randy these men and women are getting ready to leave here and they have the potential to change the world said you are coming in and you've spent 16 years looking at this through the lens of members of congress and legislators you've also been able to see how the administration works in this and you've been able to sit in the seats where they're seated. What is it that you would tell them in 10 to 15 minutes that would be the most important thing you think you could offer them to go out and help them change that world? And so I shifted what I was going to say and I came in earlier today as you began this forum and I purposely stood in the back and I watched the speakers but I also watched the people in the audience and I watched what they were paying attention to I watched the interaction and this is the assessment that I made. Many of you seated in here today wearing a uniform if you look to your right or you look to your left you will see not just some of the smartest people in our country but some of the most dedicated and committed people to national defense and to maritime forces and I'm going to use maritime forces in the navy interchangeably today but if you look at the people who are wearing the suits the men and women they also have been incredibly successful and they are committed here today to helping you and the question that I look at when I see all of that talent I thought if I could just for a moment virtually remove you and put in your place the group of people who would have sat in those same seats last year they also would have been incredibly smart they would have been incredibly committed and if I could have done that the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and for a decade I would have seen essentially the same brilliant people the same delving into the ideas the same degree of commitment that would have been there there was nothing that happened that I know of in any of these halls where a light turned on and in the last 10 years we said oh my gosh we have been wondering in the darkness for all of this time and now suddenly the light has gone off and we are changing no big curriculum change that is just revolutionized how we're looking at national defense so if that's the case over this last 10 years with all of the talent that's in this room let me just give you one statistic that just bothers me it keeps me up at night it worries me among all the others that we could delve into and it's simply this in 2007 the navy was able to meet 90 percent of our combatant commanders validated requirements last year we will meet less than 42 so if you just take that one statistic then what has happened with all of this brilliance all of these ideas that those curved lines are continuing to go like this and if I could be so bold if we can't turn them around we cannot succeed and we can't win so I thought about the essence of everything we study here boils down to one basic principle which is the importance of asking the right questions and so I realized this your goal is not to find the perfect answer your goal is to strive for the right questions and then to believe in the answers that you find and so this afternoon what I wanted to do I started off with six but I whittled it down to five because of time I want to offer you those five questions that I think with everything else you've studied I hope that you can ask an answer and I believe if you can do it successfully we can turn those curve lines around and the first question is simply this it's one I would ask people coming in my office I wasn't trying to find the answer I was trying to find out whether they knew the answer and the answer is simply this why should the citizens of the United States invest in the navy we need somebody a friend of mine said why should we buy the navy we need and it's not a purchase it is an investment we send our sons and daughters and our brothers and our sisters and our mothers and fathers that's an investment that's not a purchase but you would be shocked at how many people would come in my office over the years and I would look at them and say tell me why we need to invest in the navy we need and they would begin giving me jargon that would make very little sense and you know one of the things that I would do throughout my career if I had the luxury of being where Dr. Jackson sits today and I would have elected officials or leaders business or otherwise I'd always look at them and I would say this you know we live in a world of change and I hear over and over again how the successful business people the ones who adapt to change but then I'd ask them this is there anything any set of principles any core thing that if we change that we cease to be the united states and you know the one thing that would constantly come up after watching their eyes roll for a little bit of time is the concept of liberty and I know that's almost a dinosaur term right now but you know liberty was still the core of what this nation stands for and when I hear about losing to China perhaps losing to Russia that's not some kind of tennis match that I jump over the net at the end and congratulate them because they're now number one and i'm number two it's a change in world order and and liberty at its fundamental basis is not license it's dependent upon a rule of law and so when someone asks me why should we invest in the navy that we need I tell them it's so that we can defend liberty and protect a world order that gives us the opportunity for liberty to survive and the second thing I'll tell you is this they oftentimes ask why is maintaining the right navy more important than all the other investments we could make as a nation how many times do we hear that and I just want to offer this to you today that if someone comes up to you and says why the navy why not all the other options we have as legislators we have as americans that we could put our money in these different spots what is it that you tell them why the navy is so important why maritime forces is so important and let me just answer it this way the second greatest threat to liberty in the world today is a war between major powers the greatest threat to liberty in the world today is losing a war to major powers and if that's the case and we come in here not with humility not trying to be politically correct almost every analyst I know in the world recognizes that over the next decade maybe two or three the greatest force in the world for preventing and deterring that war from stopping and from guaranteeing that we will win if it happens is going to be the united states navy and our maritime forces and if that is indeed the case this is not some game of horseshoes where close is enough close to deterrent but falling short isn't enough coming close to winning is not enough that's why we don't get the option of asking what navy do we want we don't get the option of asking what nation what navy do we think we can afford to buy but we've got to be able to ask as a nation what is the navy we need what are the maritime forces we need to guarantee that deterrence and to guarantee that we can win if that war happens and the third question I would say that helps answer what that navy looks like or to the next two questions and the third question is how will you use history you know history here is it's a funny thing because history is the only way we get perspectives on the world that we live in because the future is just always just off my fingertips and I can't get my hands around it the present goes through those fingertips so quick I almost miss it but history is the way I get a perspective whether it's 10 minutes ago or 10 centuries ago but the key in the world we live in today is finding truth not political correctness but truth in that history if we want the right perspective years ago I had in my office a scientist and he had spent 17 years researching a cure for an illness that he was passionate about fixing he developed a cure for it but at the end of all the text the testing he found it was too toxic to work and I remember looking at him and looking at his in his eyes and saying how did it feel I wasn't very sensitive I know when I asked this but I said how did it feel to spend 17 years of your life and fail and he looked back at me as if I was the most foolish thing in the world and he said Randy we didn't fail we now have 17 years of research about what not to do so that we can cure this illness and that's the way we need to use history but I'll tell you history is not going to work that for that way for us unless we're the arbiters of truth in that history and make sure we are finding the accurate history to base that on the other question that I think helps us get to the role we need for the right navy is how we will use strategy if that's a big word around these halls and if I were able to take 10 professors and sit them at a dinner with me I guarantee you we couldn't find a definition of strategy and over and over again I will hear some of my friends here when we talk about strategy they'll say that's not what I mean by strategy I mean this so I'm not interested in your definition of strategy I'm interested in how you use strategy and if you use as stock as secretary layman said today strategy as some secret that we hide in a safe somewhere if you use it as some big secret football play that we're going to bring out when we absolutely need it so we can win the big game you have lost the opportunity to change those curve lines because we have got to find ways not just to formulate strategy but to articulate strategy and to implement strategy when I hear people asking me why doesn't congress change those curve lines why don't they do the funding in 16 years I plead it for people please come in my office please put up on a chart what your strategy is what the resources we need to implement that strategy and what the risk are going to be if we don't resource it and I guarantee you these members will come by and support that and they don't do it you know why because one they don't have it or two if they put it up and they're not resourcing it we can find out those gaps and so what I want to plead with you is not to use strategy that way to formulate it articulate it implement it and then to do this inspired in your superiors demand it in your subordinates and prioritize it in your life and then the last thing I leave with you this afternoon that I think is important if we're going to change those curve lines is you need to ask yourself what's the destiny of this country you know we don't talk about that much anymore but years ago I had a world leader I won't give you his name now but he was very important on the world scene he had done a lot with terrorism I was speaking at a conference and he was there and he'd invited me to be at his table and in the middle of it he looked at me and he said you know Randy he said I've seen terrorism more than probably any world leader in the country today and he said I love America I love the United States and he said I really love the Midwest and of course being a good Virginia and I quickly looked at him and said why do you love the Midwest why not Virginia and he said oh I love Virginia he said but I've been to Virginia I've never been to the Midwest and he said I know this morning that in the Midwest there are men and women getting up to take their children to school to go to little league ball practices to go to piano recitals to go to work to do all of those things the weather is probably pretty and wonderful and they've got to be asking this question why us why do we carry this on our shoulders sometimes feeling we do it alone and he said please tell them this it's one word it's destiny he said because whether they like it or not when you're an American you carry with you a destiny and your destiny is not to be the policeman of the world it's not to be the bully of the world it's not even to be the protector of the world he said it's to do good in the world and you do good in the world but the only reason you can do good in the world is because you have the greatest military in the world and I believe if you find answers to those five questions if you believe in those answers if we will take those answers outside of these walls I believe we can turn those curve lines around and we can make sure we're reaching that destiny we were all born to reach thank you thank you very much the our second speaker here is ambassador Eric Edelman who is a retired foreign service officer and career minister from the foreign service he is currently serving as the counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and also as the Hirtog Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Johns Hopkins SICE from 2009 to 2013 he was a senior associate at Belfort at Harvard University he's also a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute for Peace for our purposes equally important he has served across a series of different government positions including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy between August 2005 and 2009 he was also the ambassador to the republics of Finland and Turkey and he served as well as the Deputy or Principal Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs for Vice President Dick Cheney so here we have an individual with tremendous breadth and experience and we look forward to his thoughts on these topics Colin thank you and it's great to be here thanks to Mike for inviting me to come up and it's really great to be here both with Sarah and with Randy and I want to return the favor because Randy said some nice things about me I want to tell you that it's very fashionable to pick on the United States Congress I think the approval rating for the Congress now is in the high single digits but we tend to forget that there are some incredibly hardworking members of the Congress who do a lot for the nation and Randy is one of those and I can tell you from personal experience both having had to testify before the hask when he was a member when I was in the executive branch but also in my post-government career in retirement which my wife by the way says I'm flunking retirement because I used to have one job now I've got like three as you heard from Colin but Randy was unique I mean I served on the 2010 independent panel at Congress appointed to review the QDR I then served four years later on the National Defense Panel that Congress appointed to review the 2014 QDR and the chairman of the committee who whose designee I was asked to see me both chairman Buck McKean and Mac Thornberry but only one member of that 50 plus committee asked me to come in and brief him as we were going through our work about how we were doing that was Randy Forbes and I think Randy I think as you all know has done a tremendous amount in the Congress for the US Navy and I think you all are lucky to have him I know at CSBA where he's just joined the board we're lucky to have him so Randy thank you for for what you've done looking at the hour I'm mindful of when I was an undergraduate faculty member who taught a western civ course that met at this hour which was colloquially known as the decline of interest so I'm going to try and at least maintain people's interest a bit and I want to try and answer Collin's question about strategy wearing a dollar sign as Bernard Brody said by pointing out that Brody was not the first of course to note that resources are a crucial way of evaluating strategy in the two great books he wrote during World War II that still I think bear reading today Walter Lipman in war aims and in foreign policy the shield of the republic talked about the dangers of statesmen following strategies that were not adequately resourced and how they could come a cropper by by doing that and Samuel Huntington in the late Samuel Huntington in the early 1980s called this the Lipman test and talked about the solvency of US national strategy and I think we are at a kind of inflection point that's a horribly hackneyed freight and a phrase in Washington we say it all the time but I think we really are at an inflection point when it comes to the solvency of the traditional strategy that the nation has followed since 1945 of upholding a particular kind of of world order as Randy was saying a minute ago and why is that the case well first I think it's because whether we completely recognize it or not we have moved we are moving into a different strategic era the post Cold War era that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 I think probably came to an end roughly around the time of the 2008-2009 Great Recession and it was an era that was notable for first a really huge asymmetric US military advantage we had military primacy across the globe we had well we were spending 14 we were spending more money than the other 14 next nations combined so that military primacy was one fundamental element of that post Cold War period but there was also precious little geopolitical competition the Soviet Union had collapsed China was still very much in the early phases of its so-called peaceful rise and we just didn't have big geopolitical competitors anywhere in fact in 1992 the Defense Department engaged in an effort to create defense planning guidance that basically said we want to keep it that way for as long as possible try and prevent any other peer competitor from emerging on the scene we also had what was called the Washington Consensus or what my former now retired CICE colleague Michael Mandelbaum called the work the ideas that conquered the world there was a general consensus that free market capitalism was essentially the way that nations could get themselves rich and prosper and survive in the modern world there was a general disposition towards greater international cooperation the Russians wanted nothing so much as to join the G7 which became the G8 so they could become part of these international groups and work in a cooperative manner China wanted to get into the WTO and become a part of the international trading order all of those things are now radically changed our military primacy remains in in place in the sense that there is no global peer competitor but we face enormous challenges from countries that have not been involved as general Neller was saying earlier for the last 15 years in stabilization and counter-insurgency missions but have been modernizing their forces and are prepared for a high-end fight and we have not in some areas they have absolute a geographical advantage because they're playing a home game and we're playing in a way game and there is a a mismatch in the capabilities that they can bring to bear and what we can bring to bear for the moment the Washington consensus has begun to fray as many many countries raise questions about the international trading order about the rules who sets the rules etc and we have a return of geopolitical competition and in fact we have a rise of alternative models to the Washington model we have a rise in in many countries of authoritarianism and you just heard Misha Oslin I say I think say correctly that we we need to think more about populism both in Asia and in in Europe where it has arisen and created other political challenges to the to the global order the declining military primacy of the United States are shrinking advantage over other countries has all sorts of corrosive effects to global order first there's a question around the world right now about whether the United States leadership remains committed to the global order I think certainly you know secretary Mattis secretary Tillerson HR McMaster are committed to the global order the president's commitment frankly is I think a little bit more open to question at least among allies and and so I think that's an issue the the declining primacy is an issue for our ability to assure our allies that we will be there and be able to defend them and make good on the security commitments that we have to them if we if we get into a fight it's a problem for deterrence because of the regional mismatch I discussed a second ago we have to worry I think that our adversaries may think they could have imposed a fair comply on us in their region before we would have a chance to respond it's it's a problem for actually being able to defend them if push came to shove and we actually had to execute our war plans some of you may have seen it just in the last two days general Dunford has talked about the fact that in the within the next five years unless we change the curves that Randy was talking about we will not be able to project power in many parts of the world because of the capabilities our adversaries can bring to bear and the difficulties we would encounter if we if we tried to to do that so and it's I'd add one more thing which is it's disempowering to our diplomacy and I speak now as you know former 30-year American diplomat and one of my favorite quotations is from you know George Kennan who when he was speaking to a national war college audience in 1946 said you have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and constructiveness of diplomacy if you have a little quiet force in the background and that's certainly my experience my professional experience as well so we have a range of commitments around the world to defend friends and allies we have treaty commitments to our multilateral treaty allies in Europe in NATO we have treaty commitments to our bilateral allies in in Asia Japan the Republic of Korea we have some commitments to provide for the defense of Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act and we have a number of special relationships that we've undertaken in the Middle East over the years with Israel with Egypt with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia we have far flung commitments and the question is are we adequately resourcing a military to be able to both deter conflict and if deterrence fails to be able to to fight and defend our allies and I think the answer to that is no certainly I think that's the answer that Secretary Mattis and and General Dunford gave last night in the testimony that most of you have a life and we're probably watching Cleveland and Golden State play last night for those of us who don't have a life we watched the hearing which went from seven to about 1130 or I think it was 1130 I actually fell asleep but but that was the answer that that they gave and the question is what will it take to to build that back now the president and particularly relevant to this audience I mean a lot of what it will take is is rebuilding our navy I mentioned the two independent congressional panels on which I served which looked at this question I mean and interestingly in the 2014 panel we said having talked to the two previous cno's who told us that with the current vector of shipbuilding the navy was not even going to be able to maintain its presence mission that is to say the mission we have today of reassuring our allies and deterring just by presence and we concluded that the navy needed actually to be somewhere we came up with the magic numbers of 323 and 346 where did we get those numbers from that's sort of you know what kind of analysis did we do because it was just a panel of 10 people and we didn't have a very big staff and we didn't have a lot of time to do the analysis well we let other people do our analysis for us so we started with secretary Gates's FY 12 budget which was the last budget the department of defense was able to do before the budget control act started to impose all sorts of arbitrary caps on the budget and the the shipbuilding budget in that budget called for 323 ships we then went back to the bottom up review that was done in the 1990s which was meant to take place in a much more benign security environment which called for 346 ship ship navy so we said okay well somewhere in between there is probably the right number well now we've got more analysis and science behind it because the congress in its in its wisdom in the last NDAA commissioned three different studies one by the navy one by an independent think tank which was done at csba on the architecture of the fleet and one done by an ffr dc which was mitre and the number that everyone seems to have come up with is about somewhere in the range of 350 to 355 and the president in his speech in philadelphia calling for a rebuild of the u.s. military lo and behold called for a 350 ship navy question is can you get there from the budget that's been presented to the congress of 603 billion dollars and the answer to that is no so somehow some way if we want to maintain the solvency of our traditional strategy we're going to have to figure out a way to get out of this conundrum of the budget control act and the caps and fulfill what is actually the congress's primary obligatory responsibility under the constitution the constitution says that the congress must actually provide for the common defense it may do a lot of other things but defense is the first order of business thank you for those remarks


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As mentioned earlier, states do not incur responsibility for the acts of their organs when they do not act in their capacity as organs, except, as we have seen, in the case of members of the armed forces in time of war. As a rule, individuals do not act on behalf of states and therefore their behaviour is not attributable to any state. Of course, the fact that individuals have acted in a certain way may reveal a wrongful omission by the state. For instance, if a crowd attacks a foreign embassy and sets it ablaze, the host or receiving state will not be responsible for the acts of the crowd as such. The acts of the crowd will not be attributed to the host state, but such acts will reveal the failure of the state to fulfil its obligation to protect the diplomatic premises, an obligation which is owed by the receiving state to the sending state under Article 22 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and it is also a customary obligation. Because of its failure to protect the embassy from the crowd, the receiving state could be held responsible for the damage caused by the crowd, even if the crowd's violence is not considered as such as an act of that state. While this being said, there are situations where a state will directly bear international responsibility for the conduct of certain individuals. Article 9 of Arsiois envisages a situation which has notably happened in the last days of wars when a territory has been freed from foreign occupation, but that the state administration has not yet been able to re-establish its authority over the territory. In those circumstances, some individuals or groups of individuals may locally take the initiative and may organise public services to the benefit of the community, which is fine, of course, but sometimes those individuals will take measures that are much more questionable like ordering summary executions of foreigners in the name of justice, while those individuals have not been asked and officially entrusted with such functions, but they de facto act on behalf of the state, as if they were empowered to do so. In that, if that is the case, what those individuals do is attributable to the state, and this is what Article 9 provides for, and I quote, the conduct of a person or group of persons shall be considered an act of a state under international law if the person or group of persons is in fact exercising elements of the governmental authority in the absence or default of the official authorities, and in circumstances such as to call for the exercise of those elements of authority, end of quote. Article 10 of Arsieois deals with the attribution to the state of the conduct of an insurrectional movement. If the insurrectional movement fails to take control of the government, the wrongful conduct of the members of the movement will not be attributable to the state, the state is fighting against the movement, but the state will be responsible for the conduct, actions or omissions of its own organs. However, if the insurrectional movement succeeds in its fight against the government and manages to establish itself as the government of the state, the state will be responsible for the acts of the former government, which is only normal. The state will also be responsible for the acts of the new government once it becomes the government of the state, which is only normal also, but the state will also be responsible for the acts of the insurrectional movement at the time it was not yet the government of the state. The wrongful conduct of the insurrectional movement will be retrospectively attributed to the state, provided that the insurrectional movement succeeds and becomes the government of the state. And likewise, if the insurrectional movement is a separatist movement and if it succeeds in establishing a new state on the part of the territory of the pre-existing state, the mother state, the new state will be responsible for the acts of the movement at the time it was still fighting for independence and at the time the state still did not yet exist. Finally, article 11 of Arsiewa recalls that a state may always acknowledge and adopt the conduct of individuals as its own and therefore be responsible for it. Such a situation notably happened in 1979 during the Islamic revolution in Iran after Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held the diplomatic and consular staff hostage for over a year. The case was decided by the ICJ at the request of the US and the court found that Iran was not responsible for the acts of the students as such at the time they stormed the embassy. But as I mentioned earlier that the students action revealed a wrongful failure by Iran to protect the diplomatic mission. But the court also took note of the fact that as time was passing by, the new Iranian authorities were praising the acts of the students, were commanding them as heroes of the revolution and approving their action. The supreme leader of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, went so far as issuing a decree in November 1979 stating that the embassy was a center of espionage and conspiracy and that the US diplomatic staff would not be freed until the US exceeded to the demands of Iran. Therefore the court considered that from the moment Iran acknowledged and adopted the students conduct as its own, the students were acting on behalf of the government and their conduct was therefore attributable to Iran. As the court concluded, the result of that policy was fundamentally to transform the legal nature of the situation created by the occupation of the embassy and the detention of its diplomatic and consular staff as hostages. The approval given to these facts by the Ayatollah Khomeini and other organs of the Iranian state and the decision to perpetuate them translated continuing occupation of the embassy and detention of the hostages into acts of that state. The militants, authors of the invasions and jailers of the hostages had now become agents of the Iranian state for whose acts the state itself was internationally responsible.


All right we're moving on to our next subcategory which is best website and microsite and to do the honors may invite on stage Mr. Sachin Kaurveer business head in the Jaglobal Solutions Interactive and Mr. Manjanath KG chairman and CEO Kensico Digital Marketing. Mr. Manjanath incidentally was also our online screener and we have Sachin Kaurveer. Could we have the shortlist in nominees please? The best website and microsite I think is a tricky category. We were extremely cautious that we did not reward flash but we rewarded substance in the website category particularly it's extremely important that it's not just about the way the website looks but a website that is completely user-friendly and is true to the product and it delivers what it's intended for so that's what we were looking forward to and I think the awards that we have given really reflects that. No bronze winner as you may have guessed already but we do have a gold medal let's find out who the winner is.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of theaxesandtrader.com. Weekend special, hope everybody is doing well. I usually do the updates either Saturday morning or Sunday morning. Right now, it's a little after five o'clock. The market's closed about an hour or so. I figured while everything's so fresh in my head, kind of put my thoughts to paper, or thoughts to the cybernet, as we know now. If you are brand new to the channel, guys, thank you very much for tuning in. Only thing we ask, if you like the content and you like the unbiased nature of technical analysis, click alike. Take a second. It'll help the channel out and help us continue to give you an unbiased approach. And hopefully you guys will continue to hang around a little bit longer. So take a second, like the video, click, share, subscribe, all that good stuff that everybody tells me to say to hopefully get the word out for technical analysis. So let's talk about this. If I told you at the beginning of the week that the NASDAQ was only 1.1%, you're probably looking at me like I have five heads. Crazy week, absolutely crazy week. If you guys remember, the last time we spoke was Wednesday. Why was Wednesday such a pivotal day? If you guys remember Tuesday night, there was half of the super team that came out with earnings.  And all three were down pretty significant after hours. And when you walked in the next day, not only were the stocks gapping down aggressively, but we were set up for FOMC. And FOMC came and Jerome Powell started doing the Jerome Powell. The long, the short of the conversation basically that until he is looking for a confident data of 2% inflation, doesn't see too many rate cuts ahead, at least anything imminent for the March session. The market didn't like that, right? And if you guys remember the NASDAQ, the S&P, the Dow, they all got hit into Wednesday night session. And the last thing we talked about, if you go back to Wednesday's video, I was like, all right, look, the market hasn't had a day two pullback, literally the whole year, right? When I mean literally all year, literally the whole month. We have not seen a day two pullback. And my game plan for Thursday's session was, well, let's see if we could actually have a day two pullback, right? Let's see if the selling can start accelerating for one more day. Granted, the market has not given us a day two pullback the whole month. Maybe today's different. It wasn't different. It wasn't different at all. The market did exactly what it's done pretty much for the most part of 2023. All of 2024, the market reclaimed back damage support and went higher. And Thursday we had a significant rally. And this is guys why I always reiterate, especially to new traders starting out, you could be completely wrong in your thesis, right? You could be literally completely wrong. Don't be wrong financially, right? Nobody's guessing. Nobody's guessing. Nobody's predicting. My whole game plan for the next day was, well, let's see if we could get a gap up. We got that gap up. And let's see now if we could take down the previous day's ranges. So I was ready for the short side. It obviously never came. You could see here on the cues, they never took down the previous day's low. And then we started rallying. And then we started getting aggressive. And then we started getting super aggressive. And that spilled over into Thursday session. And Thursday session came out with the second part of the super group, the super trio, right? The three amigos. And the three amigos were Metta, Amazon, and Apple. And the ironic part about what's going on right now is the continuation of how aggressive people are chasing. What was the last time you saw a move on Amazon like this? Hell, what was the last time you saw a move on Metta like this? Even Apple, with its not great earnings report, okay? When green at one point, when green and actually closes a green candle, right? This is a higher close than the open. So an incredible bullish market, incredible euphoria is still going on. Again, you could prepare for the downside. I've been so many times in the first 15 years. I'm going on year 25. It's going to be my 25th anniversary in May, right? This coming May. And I'll tell you, the first 10, 15 years, every euphoric market, I was never prepared for the rug pull, never prepared for it. I'm prepared for it now, and yet it doesn't come. So the most important part is be aware, right? Have a two-sided game plan, like we always talk about every single video. And again, if one side of the market doesn't confirm, and that side is your research, it's okay, right? It's okay. Nobody cares if you're wrong. This is not a contest to see predictions of the stock market close. If you think I know where the stock market's going to be on Monday, you're out of your mind. If you think anybody knows, they're out of their mind. All we can do is prepare, right? So for example, I'll give you a perfect example. Metta had a huge move, right? Absolutely huge move. They were coming for the 500 calls short-term expiration like it was the last day to buy calls, right? Stock was up 80 points in the day. There was a guy who came out, right? I'll tell you how crazy the stock was today. There was a better who came out at roughly around 1.30 in the afternoon. He bet a quarter of a million dollars that the stock was going to be at 5.85 by day's end, a quarter of a million dollars for a three and a half hour rental. The stock didn't need three and a half hours. It went to 5.85 within an hour. The calls were up 300% an hour. This dude is betting after the stock was up 80 points. It was going to go up another 10 points, 10 points in the next two and a half hours. And you know what? It happened. So the market is absolutely insane. And again, going into my point about Monday, Monday, you would think, hey, any weakness, right? Any weakness, meta, you need to be long, right? So if meta has any profit taking Monday morning, you need to get long. Because the way they're buying up stocks into momentum stocks, into good news, they're driving these prices into orbit. So any weakness needs to be bought. So if the stock does trap shorts on the bottom, rising 60-minute support and goes right to green, we could test back today's highs. But hey, is it possible meta just goes down on Monday, right? Maybe goes down 20, 30 points? Because the stock was up 80 points. Does it have to bounce tomorrow? And that's my point. Nothing has to happen. But if you look at the strong stocks, the strong stocks with catalyst, especially in the last month, that's been the formula. Buy stocks into weakness on strong names. That's exactly what's happened to Vidya. That's exactly what's happened to SMCI. Hell, that's exactly what's happened to Microsoft. Microsoft had a horrible, at least horrible reaction to earnings. And look what happened. Microsoft now, this is the highest close in this whole formation. So the key element, again, until stocks start taking out the previous day's range, strong stocks need to be bought into rising dips. When I say 60-minute support, because I see a lot of new traders asking me, I'm referring to this 60-minute view on your chart. So instead, if you guys are training on the one-minute chart and the five-minute chart, I trade on the 60-minute chart. So anything into rising support is what I'm talking about. I'm referring to buying into 60-minute dip, but that is the key. Continue to buy dips. And once they start taking out the previous day's range, that's when the buyers come in, kicking into gear, and we start seeing more new highs. So going into next week, again, let me just check out the earnings, potential earnings players for next week. Let's see what we got here. Next week, next week, next week, we got Monday. Let's see, Monday we got McDonald's Caterpillar. Don't see as much technology. Palantir doesn't really drive the needle. Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, nothing. ENPH, nothing really on Tuesday. Amgen, nothing really to get excited about. Wednesday, you got Disney, Alibaba, Roblox. That could be interesting. Roblox, Wind Resorts, nothing really crazy there. Next Thursday, Cloudfare, NET, Affirm, TTWO, not crazy.  I think NVIDIA comes out, I think within the next two weeks or so. So that's going to be the last major report for the technology space. But so far, so good. The market just continues to be just rock star, just crazy, right? Just absolutely crazy. And hopefully, this market continues. But again, every single video and every single day always be prepared in case they pull the market as they start taking out the previous day's range. So let's talk about today's pivots. The one stock that continues to get hit and is just not rallying, is just not participating, is Tesla. I feel like every single day I've been trading Tesla, and yeah, it's not getting killed. It's not getting killed, but you're still getting cashflow. And that's the point. The point is it's not rallying. Tesla today, 184.28, if it builds below can flush. I caught Tesla a little bit today for like a dollar and change. Nothing crazy. Went down a dollar and change. It's still, I'm still waiting for that big macro breakdown below the earnings low. I think if the stock, and you can see here, despite it not cracking down yet, you can see it's putting in four straight days of lower highs and lower lows. The next big break on Tesla for a next macro leg down will be the earnings low. Is it possible it doesn't get there? It's possible, but yeah, it's probably will get there. So I'm watching the earnings low, hopefully gets there this week. But again, it just continues to not to participate in this extraordinary rally. Amazon 172 needs to build for more upside. We actually got long off of 171. If you look at the intraday chart, and you'll see on the 60-minute view, there was a seller there. There is a seller there. If you look at the 60-minute view, this whole channel here, right? Let me get rid of this fake chart, fake line. There we go. Right? So we watched it. It got rejected off 71 four times, right? Four times it got rejected off 71. They finally went through 71, gave a pretty aggressive pop, went to like 72.5, but keep this in mind. The stock was already up $12 by the time it happened, 7% plus. So you didn't give a big move like meta, but this thing is poised for another run. Obviously, any weakness for Amazon, we want to make sure that we are buying into support. Let's see if it tests eventually next week the after-hours highs from Thursday. We'll definitely keep an eye on that, but nice pop. Nice pop on Amazon. ISRG, I just wasn't watching. 384 needs to build. It trades a little thinner. ISRG, let me see what it did. I have no idea what it did. 384 needs to build. They're basically 384. That didn't do anything today. I still like this thing to go higher. Watch this ISRG. This was Microsoft. Microsoft continues to be really good despite the initial crappy reaction to earnings. Nice pop on Microsoft today. 408 needs to build. Here is a Microsoft. It took out the 408, traded all the way up to almost 413. You know, listen, that 415 highs is still on deck for next week if the market continues. Meta was a monster, an absolute monster today. I mean, what are you going to say? I know a lot of you guys, you want to hear a tragic story? Okay, maybe tragic is overblown. But we talked about this on the morning strategy. I wanted to dip by Meta today on the 453 five-minute wash. Do you know what the low of the day today was? 453.01. You can't even make this up. I wanted to buy the wash. I had bids in 452, 451, 450. It stopped at 453.01. You cannot make this up and just started absolutely exploding. I actually got along and again, I'm the first person to admit it. I caught a little bit of the follow bug today. So I got along on the 465.70s and this thing just went nuts.  But look at this move. I mean, look at this move, just absolutely nuts. Here is the 465.87. I got rejected twice and this thing just went absolutely nuts. It put up another $20 on top of the 65.67. So congratulations, guys. Again, this thing needs to be bought into dips. Qualcomm, I didn't trade. I was just concentrating on the dips. I know it worked. I just don't know how much it worked for. 140 if it builds below can flush more. Here was Qualcomm. I think it flushed down, yeah, it flushed down to like 39 and then held the 50 date and went back up. Incredible market, guys. Incredible market. I hope all you guys are doing well. Again, always have an opinion, always have a game plan. Again, you could be rolling 100% of the time on your game plan. Just don't be a mule, right? Don't be a mule and try to recreate the wheel if the wheel is not there to be recreated. So let me give you guys some ideas for Monday that I like. Look at Shopify. Check the earnings date, but look at Shopify. Shopify is very close taking out the top of the range. This looks really good. Fastenall, a name. I don't really trade Fastenall, but look at this chart, man. This looks really, really good. Keep an eye on this thing. This thing confirms today's channel on Monday. This thing could really wake up. So keep an eye on that. FSLY, beautiful breakout today. Really, really beautiful breakout today. The only reason why it stopped is the Bollinger Band. If it starts reclaiming this Bollinger Band tomorrow or Monday, you could get another move up. And obviously, again, we're watching Meadow. We're watching Amazon for any weakness profit-taking for potential dip buys. And obviously I'm still watching Tesla for a potential earnings low test, right? So that's it. So guys, one quick announcement. Again, for all you guys, we get a lot of emails and all that stuff into support and stuff. If you are interested in PIVOTS and you just want to check it out, guys, we have a 30-day kick the tires, come in. We have a lot of goodies in there that I can't really disclose on the video here, but we have a lot of goodies there that will make your life as a trader a lot easier. That's the best way of saying a lot easier, a lot of good stuff there that you could take advantage of, option flow, squawk box, all that good stuff. But more important, kick the tires and see if PIVOTS are right fit for you. Guys, have a great night. Have a great weekend. God bless everybody. Stay healthy. And with God's help, I'll see you on Monday. Take care.