Okay This is the official 2017 St. Valentine's Day Massacre on our wallets show Welcome everyone to progressive discussions Okay Let me just start with seven lucky bells For our show because seven is a very important number Everything we discussed politically is part of our series Capitalism or should I say crappitalism in a conch shell? There's the conch We see if King Neptune is online Hey, hey doing yeah, no no no I know I know what topics I want to discuss Without a doubt. Oh God heaven help us all if Trump should ever Step down or be forced out then what we're stuck with that Evangelical zealot freak Mike Pence that makes no sense And tense who makes no sense. Yeah. Oh, I know I'm gonna mention him I know what he's been doing lately. They were they weren't shy about it either. All right. I'll talk to you. Yes Valentine's Day is a is a is a retail scam Yeah, chocolate diamonds from levion.  It's all a scam Really not that cold that goes in a windshield factor, but anyway, yeah They lay you see what they do the girlfriends the wives and fiance's they do what? They do what mothers do to their sons and what daughters do to their fadges.  I think I did in terms of the girlfriends and the wife Yeah, yeah, they withhold sex from the man because the men are like thirsty begging brothers when it comes to getting laid They they desperate they cannot boycott just like yes. Yes. That's true. Just like Americans cannot boycott Products when they're being price gouged Yeah, that's right. Can't they don't boycott they don't boy that begging brothers.  Yes, that is true. King Neptune. You are very wise All right. Oh, I got some some heckler Mocking this show recently You know about him Yeah, I think I know him personally if it's the same guy at Joseph Salza Yeah, well, you know what? Mr. Salza, all right, I'll see you later. I'll talk to you later. I won't see you later because I can't breathe on the water I was neptune This is not a stick sir This is an authentic weapons grade black thorn Shaleli the lucky Shaleli from Ireland. It is a if you hang it above a doorway It'll keep away The the malicious a little spirits the little people the wee people see it's got the shamrock of authenticity This is not a stick.  It's been a hundred bucks on a couple of days Yeah, you guys poor suckers It's been like a hundred bucks Because the girls got to have the fancy ones with a long stem with the baby's breath around there Oh, no, they can't have the regular ones Yeah, they last for like only couple days man, and there goes the money Well, I want to give you a little consumer tip Because I'm a consumer advocate what we are If you take dry flowers, I mean if you take any fresh flowers fresh flowers Regardless what kind of posies they are Let's say red roses take them out of the vase Instead of putting them in the vase you hang them on a nail You know you put like a like a plastic cable tie or a twist tie around the stems, right? Hang them up hang them upside down on the wall Leave them alone.   Tell you man.   Sure. He wants to go out. Let's count how even though if they're not cattle.  All right. Get lost and he's gonna me out and come back in Anyway out of flags good anyway, what did I say now?  Thank you drive. Thank you. Gw Bush privatized insurance company He has to pay premiums.  Oh by the way when we go to lunch You're gonna see a list and the names and the photos of the Democrats that have supported and voted to approve of Donald Trump's cabinet selections How about that? It's how about that that good old FDR Democratic Party? That's supposed to feel our pain.   Get back in the womb.   Yeah, and and people say well, why is the military budget?  They don't want to spend money on NASA They don't want to spend money on alternative a green energy or whatever They love to spend it on the military and I've come to the conclusion that it is because the military The companies that make the weapon. This is the primary source of their bribes There's something in it for them when they spend tax dollars on other things I don't think there's any bribe dr. Bill certainly no bribe element in in snap Or or or any anything that requires taxpayers money But when it comes to giving billions of free welfare to their rich buddies into corporations That's okay when it comes to having a over 56 percent of The total budget for the military. That's good. That's okay to them Even though there's a lot of wasteful spending in the military a lot and I think it's because that is the source of Their bribes, which is political corruption the Pentagon Trillions of dollars it cannot account for trillions Oh, yeah down a rattle Oh, yeah, and I think I think the office that held the records was to happen to be on the side where the Terrorist plane went into the Pentagon So I was reading an article errors missile missile missile was a missile. There's no wings There's no tail in that hole. It's a round a hole Yeah, so that's the theory of burning up the the File cabinets on the side where all the information was There's a lot of mysteries like why did Did a US naval missile hit that? Iranian Airliner that killed so many civilians How could they not know if they're in a ship that there is a commercial airliner in the sky? They could they know it It's a bunch of bullshit when they give you a cover story well They it's like the old the was it the Gulf of Tonkin Goal from tongue and never happened never happened the the via a whole story Jesse Ventura mentioned that many times that there were supposedly the Viet Cong attacked the United States Vessel, right? Yeah, and They do things to get the American people behind The government to start a new war. That's great. That was they want to build up morale and and hatred So they get they rile up the American people now do that second subject before we sink our teeth into these readings is Well, they're there they didn't waste any time. They're not shy in doing it Donald Trump's insane evangelical zealot cultist freaks that he chose like like your Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions and and the rest of them. They don't waste any time. There's like a nationwide series of sting operations Against anything that has to do with sex. Oh, yeah They do it every time they consider Republican administration now. This is what's totally absurd Republican evangelicals consider prostitution Prostitution to be sex trafficking. Oh, yeah.  Oh, that's so terrible. Why don't you work on the real kingpin criminals? Why don't you hear the government? Why don't you?  So watch if a Man or a woman claims they're gay and they want to have a little hanky-panky In their in their own bedroom. So what if a guy wants to pay to get laid?   It's like prohibition. I bet they were right-wing fundamentalists Exactly evangelical freaks Exactly alcoholic beverages illegal. Give me a break.  Hey another thing? It spawned organized crime Organized crime is gonna find ways to make money no matter what now look. It's look at some some Southern gentlemen That I'll say I'll say something that has a steel has a still in his backyard wants to make some good moonshine They'll come and bust it up, man. Oh, yeah, they busted up recently. I read an article where the sheriff busted up the guy's Electricity his windmill he built a window in his backyard. So there there goes the idea Hey, yeah, I've individualism of owning self Sufficiency no, what about owning your own home?    Oh, what's that? You're collecting rainwater and a barrel gotta bust that up. Yep. You're not allowed to go. Oh the rainwater comes from the sky Corporations own the clouds. Yeah, right. Yeah, okay. Can't collect rainwater can't make electricity You got to be hooked up to the You know like PSC and G power companies power companies.   We got it. You got to be slaves to the to the man to the to the power companies Exactly because that's how their cronies make money cronies. Oh Privatization Crony, Crony, that's the magic word. Who do you think when they probably not a state or city or whatever? Privatizes something. Who do you think they give the business to? Well, that has somebody they don't know. Well, I'm sure to some but I'm sure to people in in the state capital building Know them really well your damn right. They do because they envelopes came They get their palms of grease. That's correct. They're palms are a greased Nothing is done without that the grease That is the Wheels hey, it's like that in the entire entertainment industry if you don't have connections You gave you could be Joe blow from Idaho and you could have you could be a super talent man You could sing you could you could make glasses shatter. How would you get a chance? Hey, I don't care old days He ate the girls. They had to go on to the couch the cast that chance the casting couch.  Let's just take The book trade Publishing once upon a time You didn't get the copyright to your book if you sold it and you sold it for a certain amount No royalties That's how it used to be Elvis Presley There are two on most of the songs that he's sung and whatever there are two names as Riders, yeah the actual writer and Elvis Presley Who did not write the song at all they call that he was the big man and therefore if you wanted to break You cal tow to the big man Yeah, well, that's the problem with the thing with Signing that contract in Hollywood as well as publishing is that The guy in charge obnoxiously tries to change your work They do make changes to your work They did it to what Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld at the beginning of the Seinfeld show You know, they had a bad time slot They did there there were there were horrible in the ratings until they moved the time slot But the the assholes of Hollywood wanted to change their material and Larry David said, you know Larry David he grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn and he was very volatile and he says no way You're not gonna tamper with my work. I'm the executive producer. I'm the writer.  But the point is Yeah, people office politics people on top. They have their egos I'm trying to analyze it as a psychologist where they have their egos and they need to be in power Now is that similar to the military dictator? Who puts his face on on every street on a billboard? He's all over the place Of course, you know and love me love me or we had we have a great example of all of that Going on right now with our president Yeah, he's he's a perfect example of all of that.  Oh, he hates her Rosie O'Donnell, but that'll be perfect Somebody else mentioned another actress. They go. No.  I hope I think I think she does want to do it, but I hope they select it Good luck.   It's a shillel. He's John Henry's They a leprechaun come and whack you over the friggin Cranium anyway, let us now sink our teeth into these readings. Hey, we're doing good on time Same Valentine's Day massacre on our wallets. Let me get my Let me get my medicinal tea here Yeah, because I like the shillel.  Oh Yeah, they states they think George Soros is paying them to do that. Yeah But in keeping with the administration's modus operandi The administration is just making this up and everyone knows it It's time for this administration and its supporters and Enablers to realize that the president was not elected by a majority vote and The rest of us are taking to the streets. It's kind of like Al Gore and G. W. Bush and only one Paying is the Republican Party for its titular head You hear what Donald Trump always says it if you're a protest or criticize in him You're he calls you a thug. Yeah. Yeah, and if it's the media criticize in him Yeah, it's fake news. That's right. But if you say nice things about him, then you're cats meow, man You're peachy keen. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Regarding 1984 a novel for the age of Trump. Oh Yeah, I found Jim Beckerman's column a music Because of Beckerman Beckerman. He fails to see his own image in the book Along with Brave New World These books were required reading in the late 1960s. Yes. This is the I am now speaking That these are books that should be Red by our young today along with Soylent green along with the day the earth stood still these are classics These are these are prophetic right classics and you know what else is strange When you get a chance viewers watch The I know there's a new there's a new move. There's a new one out You know, you know the the Omen series about Damian the only yeah There's a new one out now, but the but the second to the last The last one that went to television where a teenage Damian Wasn't enlisted in military school It's not a new movie it's old the company in that movie is exactly like Monsanto Doing exactly what Monsanto does and guess what Damian the CEO is like helped Damian In every every inch of the way. He was on the side of the antichrist but it but this is years before Any news about Monsanto came out publicly unless people really knew about Monsanto way back when So they you know, we're having a lot of Movies that have criticized the corporations stuff like avatar of the fly All of these they the corporations were the bad guys. Yeah in them. Okay, that's what they were doing And of course George Carlin's famous three-minute Routine that it was is considered the best three minutes of George Carlin's career Where he really hits hard about? Who really runs this country in this world and how they own us and And we think we have freedom of choice and we think we have freedom and all this blah blah blah But we don't But we don't but he really goes to town But this is all he even even the late Frank Zappa was very Progressive and prophetic many of things he he says it. I think he's the one that said the u.s. Government is just a big oil company with a military bingo What did Schmedley Butler? Major General Schmedler was a racket was a racket was a racket. He was a he was a shield for the corporations Jesse Ventura mentioned Schmedley but but Butler all time He was on the inside, you know what that was going on and and definitely by Jesse Ventura's book of the marijuana manifesto Haven't seen that one yet I'm still looking for Bernie's. Oh Yeah, Bernie's His post Election book that he came out with right. Yeah, I'm waiting for the price to go down Well, I don't know. I don't pay, you know, no, no, no books. No Bernie Sanders is Everywhere working very hard whereas Hilary Clinton Is kind of like on hiatus and But Bernie's out there. The only thing I don't agree with is Bernie says we a we have to continue We can't be too rough with the enemy. We got a well Where we're fighting for everyone's rights We're fighting for everyone's rights both Good and bad, but I disagree because that pacifist hipster attitude is what caused Elizabeth Warren senator Elizabeth Warren to get shut down by the ugly turtle face Mitch McConnell her that liberal pacifists cause her to dummy up Like Archie Bunker would say But Bernie came back and went to bat for her well, they all did yeah whole bunch of them read the same letter Nobody stopped Chuck Schumer Schumer do I believe Whole bunch of Democrats. Well, they were pissed. Yeah, but they read the same letter and nothing happens in a Corretta So, you know, it was only directed at her That's the point, but well, they try to bully the woman Well, yeah, but what is she gonna do?   I know what would have sanctioned her But they let them they let all the dudes read the letter, right? Yeah later But that's what I'm saying is that that would have been a punishment and it would have been put on her But she's very in charge. She's illegal represented of the state of Massachusetts. That's a matter She's not in charge.  That's why she was censored. Okay. We have to understand something What when you put these when you put it is past the progressives They're in power So so they they really can keep Elizabeth Warren from reading a letter. I mean for real And did she raise her voice? She she wanted the rest of the Senate to okay what she was doing. They didn't do it They asked for a second. What what if they second it? What if she says hey?  Well, I'm a senator too from Massachusetts and I represent the state of Massachusetts If she would have persisted they would have sanctioned her All right This is what happens when you put these guys in charge you ever see the parliaments in other countries Oh, yeah, they have rumbles. They punch each other. Oh, I love that. Well, that's what that law was in the Senate to prevent Can you imagine you in view or insult another senator? You imagine?     I'm trying to think like okay. You're a senator in a in a Developed populated northeastern state that probably has a lot more delegates than this rural Redneck State of Kentucky and you take this guy guard There's a bad Jimmy Stewart invitation from a little itty-bitty state of Kentucky.  He called for a second He got a second and he got a third and forty if they wanted it and they all said shut your mouth You cannot read Coruscant Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott Kingsley. Well, you know what they say is you cannot impugn another senator Well, it's salt another sent your colleague. So oh, he thinks he keeps referring to them as colleagues Yeah, why does she do that to be nice nice their their demons anyway? Anyway, Coretta Scott. Well, it is black history month.  They want because they want who they want Regardless how tainted how tainted these people are that is correct You got a few of them in there right now with Tillerson Jeff Sessions Boss to boss and Somebody else. So is this what a kangaroo is this what a kangaroo court is in the wild wild west I got a look up Webster's dictionary for kangaroo court.  No scruples. No rules Yeah, I'm no way important or whatever. Yeah Anyway, these books Warned American society to be aware of communist propaganda in the past The media put accuracy of news over sensationalism Today that is change the world's media including those in this country are Controlled by those who have their own agenda Of what the American people should know and think The distortion of this news is a modern-day 1984 scenario It goes even further and deeper in American society People have complained that Russia or China influenced the previous election But it is the world mega information corporations such as Google and Facebook that do terrible damage This liberal type of 1984 life fascism Wants to replace our electoral system With the chaos of individual rule In their eyes all Have the right to do Whatever they want and to destroy the cohesion of law and court Well, we're Hey, it was Grover Cleveland that said American people will receive exactly the kind of government that they deserve and They consistently do it on every single Election day they did it in 2014 November 2014 they did it again this 2016 November they consistently keep on doing it They keep on voting for the establishment or the so-called Trump Which was supposed to be against the USM The only time he was gonna drain the swamp. Oh, he's draining the swamp right He's a What what happens when you drain the swamp is all the bottom theaters are left You know what I mean, uh, it came from 20,000 leads I think I think the only non-establishment non career politician that was ever Elected to any high office was Jesse Ventura in Minnesota. I can't think of any. Oh, of course Bernie Sanders the Independent of Vermont. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That's true. That's why nothing gets done But it but it's them against the establishment.  Yeah, they don't look outside the box You know what I mean? It's like it's like somebody Who does?  They they're not open-minded and I they're not critical Independent free thinkers with an open mind. They can never see outside of the box In line with that last letter that we just read, right a Philadelphia court That's made the unfortunate decision to reopen the legal debate on whether the United States has the right To access emails stored on foreign servers If they belong to U.S. companies If magistrate Thomas Reuters ruling stands anyone using U.S.-based internet companies Will have to live with the knowledge that As far as the United States government is concerned It's America Wherever they operate unless you're a company that pays off congressmen centers Then then you won't be investigated This is a dangerous approach that hurts the global expansion of U.S. tech companies Privacy-minded customers in Europe Are already suspicious of the United States government cooperation with the tech giants Revealed by the national security agency leaker Edward Snowden Nationalist leaker Nationalist politicians in some countries for example Marine lot 10 of the national front in France Want to ban cross-border personal data transfers Are you in that such information must be stored on servers inside the internet users country? That does not appear to guarantee that the United States won't get at it last July Microsoft won a landmark case against the United States government in which the tech giant Argued that it didn't have to hand over emails stored on a server in Dublin To investigators working on a drug case U.S. Court of Appeals for the second circuit agreed with the corporation Ruling that Congress never meant the stored communications act of supply to apply extra extraterritorially Just two weeks ago The court allowed the ruling to stand the government may yet appeal it to the Supreme Court, but in the meantime United States internet companies have assumed that if communications are stored abroad They are out of the reach of United States Covington government Acting on that understanding Google Refuse to disclose to users data to the FBI and The FBI went to court in Philadelphia Unlike Microsoft Google doesn't even know the physical location of a file It's artificial intelligence-based system constantly optimizes storage So bits of one file can be stored in several geographic locations at one time amazing amazing Judge Royder refused to be bound by the Microsoft president in his ruling He disagreed with it Arguing that as long as an American Google employee Gets the data by using the computer Located in the United States nothing Extra-territorial is taking place When Google produces the electronic data in accordance with the search warrants and the government views it The actual invasion of the account holders privacy the searches will occur in the United States Within that logic any information public or private that the US government can find Using computers on US territory is fair game and if the logic applies The European Union wasted its time last year as it tried to establish an acceptable privacy standard for US companies operating in Europe If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about You're touting a Republican stand There well, I mean if you have nothing to hide why are they looking? You understand like like they're looking because it's becoming because they can because they can In other words, they're invading your everyone's privacy right because they can and then and then that is sort of tied into the first amendment Sort of you know sort of kind of sort of like the fourth amendment to You know, it's like I mean like some people's are They lose their job because of what they what they do or what they've said Off the clock like if you're if you're off the clock, right and you're off company property What you do and what you say in your private life is really you know one's damn business Yeah, just like you know what a woman does with her body is really no one's damn business You know and if it's clean safe and consensual Then it's a victimless situation For United States companies, this will mean a need to invent new private arrangements to protect European customers The kind of Microsoft proposed in 2015 It appointed Deutsch telecom I like it already the data trustee for two data centers in Germany Making it impossible for anyone including Microsoft itself To obtain any information from the servers without permission of the trustee and ultimately the client Love the German scientists man. They're they're they're they're one of the very best Such tricks may not stand up In US courts if other judges agree with Reuter. Well, guess what? European countries And other countries could just go like this to the US Kiss my ass just like Russia and China are off the dollar along with Iran The US Supreme Court will probably have to take a stand on this issue Google has already decided to appeal Reuters ruling and now that there are conflicting precedents The government too will definitely want to pursue the battle to the bitter end Waiting for a decision Millions of foreigners must decide Whether to cut their losses on this front in the online privacy wars It may long no longer be okay to expose their lives to US corporations Those uneasy about the degree of the US governments reach Into their private files and communications need to start thinking about alternatives No matter how hard it may be to replace Google Microsoft or Facebook as the United States becomes more hostile Toward foreigners under President Donald Trump. There's no telling why the US government may be asked to collect information Some travelers to the United States are already being asked to reveal their social network histories in a broad search for terrorist connections What if the government didn't even have to ask hey, man If you're if you're rich, and you don't pay your fair share in taxes.   I'm gonna punch you out man. I'm gonna punch you You know I'm saying hey Joe Salazar. This is not a stick You are insulting and disrespecting the great black thorn Shalaley from Ireland the lucky Shalaley You are disrespecting the country of Ireland and all leprechauns There's always somebody out there trying to mock what we do St. Valentine's Day massacre on our wallet special show can you dig that brother or sucker? That's right Can you dig that sucker? To watch dog groups. Oh wow Thursday filed ethics complaints against top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway Oh her for promoting Ivanka Trump's fashion line during a television interview talk about um Conflicts of interest, huh? Well, she's a lot. She's well. Yeah, she's allowed to have a bit Ivanka She's a lot. No, no Conway did a commercial for her. Oh, that's it. That's not appropriate. It's inappropriate She did a promotion for the woman. That's kind of inappropriate, isn't it? Yes, it's against the law Not appropriate Or inappropriate. It's against the law.   Oh? Also, if you paid I saved a very informative banner that I will show during our break of Dwight D. Eisenhower's 90% tax rate on the rich and it's quite informative Believe me, it would not hurt the top 1% not one bit Not one I own not one I own Go buy I bonka stuff Conway a Counselor to President Donald Trump said on Thursday during a Fox and Friends appearance from a White House briefing room I Owned some of it. She said oh gee I'm going to give it a free commercial here Of course because Donald gave her a nice job that she's not qualified for go buy it today. Everybody. Yeah, you can find it online citizens for the responsibility and Ethics in Washington and public citizen lodged complaints with the Office of Government Ethics Alleging Conway violated federal ethics rules said bar federal employees from endorsing products and businesses Crew officials say Conway also may have broken a federal law That prohibits the use of public funds for non official purposes. Oh public funds were used oh gee Isn't that a rarity? Ask about Conway's actions White House spokesman Sean Spicer told a reporters on Thursday Kelly Ann has been counseled on the subject He would not elaborate Senate I guess that means that Trump he took her to the Outhouse and gave her a spanking well Kelly Ann's photos lately have A bit have shown that she has kind of a blowjob looking mouth She reminds me well, she reminds me of Ann Coulter, but she's better looking than Ann Coulter And Coulter is like Medusa You know, but she reminds me of her. She's got that Fox News Why I take that back Fox News has a lot of brunettes now, right? Well, they used to be all blonde until they were criticized You know senator Corey Booker said on CNN very waspish-looking waspy on Thursday afternoon, right? that he researched the law and It prohibits using an official position to endorse or sell merchandise It's clearly what she said she clearly broke the law But he said that while the offense was serious It was not a felony and the larger issue is That President Trump has not removed himself from his business See, oh, yes, doesn't he know no no he has not produced his tax. No no No white trust Blind trust like no blank trust. No. No. No, I thought he's trying to get away with it And and he has he hasn't shown he has and he hasn't shown his tax returns yet. That's great Well, he he actually lied about many of his campaign promises There are serious conflicts of interest between him and the businesses run by his family members and he clearly Does not respect The seriousness of those conflicts. Well, he thinks his presidency is is like a monarchy. Yeah Yeah, he actually get away with anything Yeah, he has quite an ego there Trump organizations continue dealing in foreign countries arguing that it violates the emollience clause of the Constitution Which prohibits officials in the government from receiving gifts or other things of value from foreign states Maryland represented Elijah Cummings the top Democrat on the house oversight and government reform committee Also called on the panel's Republican chairman Utah representative Jason Chafetz To formally refer the Conway matter to federal ethics regulators for potential disciplinary action Chafetz told NBC news that Conway's remarks were wholly unacceptable Conway's comments came a day after Trump took to Twitter to slam Nordstrom For dropping his daughter's clothing line Complaining the department store chain Treated Ivanka Trump so unfairly his actions and Conway's remarks sparked fresh questions about the new president's commitment To separate his official duties from his family's business interests The president said he has transferred management Responsibilities for his real estate and branding Empire to his two adult sons and a long-time Trump organization executive But he has refused To relinquish an ownership stake in his company Anyone harboring illusions that there was some separation between the Trump administration and the Trump family businesses Has had their fantasies shattered Kelly and Conway self-proclaimed advertisement for the Ivanka Trump fashion line Demonstrates again what anyone with common sense already knew President Trump and the Trump administration will use the government Apparatus to advance the interests of the family businesses See that's what I said he was in there for from the beginning and There is something that he wants to cover up or Wants to do away with and he needs the power of the presidency To accomplish well they well they love to deregulate all companies Well, maybe that's what will happen now, you know after they do that Why do you think why do you think way back when? Linda lunchbox McMahon Ran for office in the state of Connecticut Be there I think it was Congresswoman or senator. I don't remember which one but Well, if she gets in she can help Pass laws or or eliminate laws that would hinder her husband Vincent Vince McMahon as profit Will affect this profit the company the rich have an never-ending obsession with Never being content with the riches. They have a mass They always want more and more and more and more and more and They seek the government to help them It's like that's why you got all these stupid IRS laws that protect And deductions and everything for the rich not from middle-class or the poor They must honestly think they could take it all with them when they die like like the Pharaohs Where we can't We got room for a smaller or a big one or a medium-sized one Congress should use a rarely invoked 1924 law to examine President Donald Trump's Speaking of devil right is tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and constitutional violations and Make them public Said representative Bill Pascal of New Jersey Pascal a Democrat from Patterson Who serves on the ways and means committee has asked the committee's chairman? Representative Kevin Brady of Texas To order The Treasury Department to provide tax returns to the committee You'll pass grow those congressmen or senator He's my congressman How's your congress or up for northern New Jersey? No for this area the district District bank well Patterson is to say County to say County is right next to us Yeah, well, he's got he's got several cities. Yeah, I mean they they gerrymandered They gerrymandered everything around to protect Scott Garrett Thank God he's done. Yeah after privately examining returns Pass crowd is seeking ten years worth the committee could decide to share them with the full house Which would in fact in effect make them public The 1924 law gives congressional committees That's set tax policy to power to examine tax return It was used in 1974 When Congress looked at President Richard Nixon's return And in 2014 When the ways and means committee released confidential tax information as part of its investigation into the internal revenue services handling of applications for non-profit States Trump said During the campaign He would not release his return because he was being audited after the inauguration Advisor Kellyanne Conway said He would not release them because the public did not care. Oh That's like mr. McConnell saying the American people are looking to stir things like they they they know what God's thinking They know what the American people are thinking and it's a telepathic ability As growl said what happened in the election does not matter This isn't for the Democrats or Republicans And it's not to embarrass anybody This is to make sure The American people know the facts If there are conflicts They need to be resolved Asked If he thought he would succeed as growl said he believes many Republicans in the house and the Senate are Absolutely intimidated by the president visually. Yeah, they probably are but on a different issue the top republic and On a key committee at the top regulation volume on Thursday To investigate whether Conway violated ethics rule When she said in a television interview People should buy the president's daughter's clothing line Should should buy it That's growl said he did not believe Trump has turned over control of his company's to his children Even if he did Pascal agreed with the asset sufficient Who oversee the executive branch that that is not sufficient to avoid? conflicts of Interest that's growl also said he believes Trump is violating the emoluments law which bars Federal officials from receiving gifts or other things of value From foreign government we know That the state owned Enterprises in China and the United Arab Emirates are involved in his business And that his business ties stretch to India Turkey and the Philippines and beyond Beyond Russia He dug in mine, and that's why he's so nice Well, I hear Vladimir Putin had some pretty big meetings with ExxonMobil You know and he has he I hear he's quite the businessman Vladimir Putin. Oh, yeah, he has killed One guy took over his business As I keep saying bring bring Kasparov on all of these shows and he'll tell you the real Putin Well, he was KGB right that's great and Russia Saudi Arabia and Taiwan They also have ties to his business Kasparov said foreign governments are paying rents Licensing fees issuing permits for Trump Organization All of which could be used to influence the president So this corporate oligarchy has its tentacles worldwide And in the White House and in the White House a Crackin I Told you I told you I owe I ate my hunches are usually 99.99999 percent correct. I told you that's why I despise corporate CEOs more than any other humanoid No, there aren't they the ones that send the lobbyists to Washington, of course that's a bill William H. Morrill on his role corporatism If I get a no answer on this, I'll be very honest with you If these guys think I'm walking away from this, they're absolutely nuts That's Ralph said The calls we're getting the calls other Congressmen are getting it's unbelievable We've never expected Walls I come every time I emailed the Robert Menendez, you don't get an answer. I Don't get I never get a personal I get an automated reply through the email I know I don't get a personal no reply ever ever Never do So I don't know how these other congressmen and senators get calls But in New Jersey You're you're ignored like you're like a non entity Members of Congress are not required to release their tax returns But they must file financial disclosure forms Not required similar to one Trump had the file they make when he ran for president Yes, they ex they explode themselves from the they make they make the frigging we must obey they make the laws That's why they get a guaranteed raise every friggin year that they don't deserve Working less than part-time hours 174 grand and all the freebies they get They must outline their sources of income and the value of certain asset for years past grow Who was in his 11th year term? In the house 11th term There's not regularly released his own tax return In January 2012 when he was running in a competitive Democratic primary He released his 2010 After learning his opponent And also done It showed fast ground now 80 And 267,500 $18 in income in 2010. I didn't know he was that old He's very spry for his ages And he beat he beat roughly It was much younger He's like a Bernie Sanders, he says he's sharp as a tack Including his congressional salary and New Jersey pension From service as a state legislator mayor and Patterson employee He and his wife paid 57,740 in federal taxes or an effective rate of 22% He actually pays a lot Yeah, they're too, you know, compared to Republicans Fasters, they're the the very moral and very Christian quote-unquote Republican congressmen and senators Unbelievable unbelievable You know what? It's probably human Prop the problem is always human nature. 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That's www.newslettercensored.com Okay All right, we are back We are back same Valentine's Day massacre on our wallet special show for 2017 so what were we talking about during lunch this new Very pushy obnoxious greedy Scheme that Retail companies came up with the automatic purchasing plan where they want you to sign up so you you have automatic purchases Occur every single month for a constant supply of profit for these companies. Yep They they never stop thinking of ways to get you to part with your money Good old crap at the listen Good old crap at the listen in a conch show Anyway Let's sink our teeth into these readings for the balance of the show seven lucky bells I applaud former governor James Florio's thoughtful analysis of The Trump administration's plan To repeal and replace the affordable care act. I haven't heard from we haven't heard from James Florio in a long time The economic policy institutes January 2017 report Estimated that 1.2 Million American jobs will be lost When the ACIA is repeal it also concluded That New Jersey would be one of the 15 states that would be hit the hardest by this repeal Thanks to the ACA about 24 million Americans a Piece of mind knowing they will be Able to afford health care for themselves and their loved ones and That an accident or catastrophic illness will not bankrupt them and their family They studied by the University of Chicago included that for every 20 million citizens Who gained health coverage? Through the ACA about 24,000 Fewer Americans will suffer health related deaths. It seems strange That the GOP Which prides itself on being pro-life Would seek to repeal a program That saves so many lives If you're outside the womb, they're not pro-life Unless and until the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have a better plan They should show That they truly are pro-life and Preserve the affordable care.  Yeah, we read that last week. Oh, we did. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry The Lodai New Jersey. Yeah a man Allegedly killed a snake Outside the door of the exotic in Lodai It must have escaped from their from their stock It must have been part of their inventory where the reptile was Wait a minute. He he bought the snake and then killed it.  Why did he buy it? Employees at the store said a father and a son Got into an argument over the purchase of an albino corn snake From the New Jersey exotic pets on January 21 Before one of the males through the reptile to the ground Stepped on its hand and killed and the argument was about the snake The man left the dead snake outside the store the store's management retrieved it Placed it into a refrigeration unit and Called the Bergen County animal control To report the act as Animal cruelty your frustrations out on an innocent preacher that the idiot paid for I hope he doesn't expect a refund And we're instructed to contact the police the two men Names are being withheld Pending an investigation into the incident according to the police report The unidentified male who was accompanied by his father And arrived at the store to purchase an albino corn After the purchase was completed The two males exited the store And engaged in a verbal argument believed to be over the purchase Well the store the store's prices I know where the store is the store's prices are very steep They're expensive and Terribly expensive the Unidentified man became very angry enraged An off-styling throwing the Nate to the ground at which time Proceeded to intentionally step on his head and killed him Hey, maybe it was the son Maybe the father is the one that bought it. Maybe despite the father. I'm so glad I don't have any kids Man the act was witnessed by three Unidentified individuals Identified what is this a jewelry heist or something they're making a big deal at it. It's all these unidentified people the snake Was then stored in the pet stores commercial refrigerated Find jewelry heist Yeah in the morgue and in the morgue And MJ exotic pets employee Who declined to provide her name? I know who she is Stated the man who bought this name. I know she is personally Has bought many reptiles Many times The store and never never took never lost never had a fit any of the other purchases never never Went on a tirade only is something about the albino corn snake that set him off, right? And he lives out of state It was a freak action Freak accident me Incident a freak incident. How is it a freak incident if you throw the animal to the ground and step on it? How is that a freak incident? This type of incident incident delivered incident never occurred before This is never happened before Yeah these son Came in with his father But the baby's name went outside and Got into a fist fight with his father this snake was cursed Then he stopped on the snake got into a fist fight with his fight. I don't know what it was over Some people just snap You know well the employee and I worked in a retail store.  I? Am from Pennsylvania. No, but they just said one or born and born But they were a mountain top one every ordinary people. I think he should be locked up Unconcerned about the other animals he owns Gee, how is he caring for the other animals if he nonchalantly did this The son appeared to care for his animals buying the proper lights tanks and other supplies needed as Well as indicating knowledge caring for reference. Well buying the supplies that a retail Hedge shop tells you you need It's not buying Really what the animal needs it is they they say recommend what what is needed and then some and charge you very high prices For them because the store claims so that we are a specialty store Our prices are high because we are a specialty store. We specialize in exotic creatures But I I saw what even online companies recommend They want you to buy everything but the kitchen sink man You need this you need that you need this and it's like holy crap for that little animal For that little Pac-Man frog Give me a break You know we have breeders they put their animals in In ten dollar Plastic storage containers with substrate in the bottom Yeah, yeah But the man will not be allowed back into the store burger County animal control Did not return calls at breast time load I please say case is still under investigate Well Don't hold your breath for it to be finalized I Have every time I leave a message on a county or state Agency and I very rarely get a reply. I think people that have these these cushy Possibly crony jobs Spend their time jerking off all day Rather than doing their jobs Avengers Is voluntarily recalling some of its dog food after a drug That is used to anesthetize or put down pets was founded really That they should be they should be inducted into the chisels all ashamed that And so Barbato yikes was found in one lot of the dog food Five dogs got sick One died According to the Wheeling Illinois based company 15 states are affected By the hunk of beef I Recall oh, it's kosher. It's run by Jews No, I do this saw one Jew one Jew I do I do saw I was a kosher sauce. No, it ain't kosher.   Oh, that's like that sauce. They they when they talk about prime rib of beef The Dion Jew sauce on Jew on Jew The 12 ounce cans were manufactured June 6th through the 13th sold in stores and online in Washington, California, Minnesota, Illinois Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, you know, you really don't know what you're buying anymore Innocent animals suffer for Shame on you you're in the chiseless hole of shame man as a precaution Avengers is recalling hunk of beef products hunk of hunk of burning manufactured the same week with lot numbers that start with 18 etc. The second half of the barcode on the back of the label says Two zero one zero nine the hunk of hunk of burning beef a hunk of hunk of burning beef the ill and Deceased dogs eight from the lot 1816 e o 6 h b 1 3 oh How devastated the families were I bet I? Hope they suit of crap out of that company really the US FDA oh Yeah, wonderful organization is Distributing information about the recall Avengers suppliers of meat products are USDA approved the company said We feel that we have been let down by our supplier The blame game and in reference to the possible presence of pinto barbatal We have let down our customers Sure did you also put down their pets The company said in news release on its website Adding that it's the first recall In 82 years for the manufacturer first time for everything I guess Avengers said it has terminated its relationship with that supplier After 40 years well sure wait wait until lawsuits come in check in man Unbelievable that that you know that really is gonna hurt that company big time. It really is It's an old company, huh? Yeah, I mean if it's since it's that old. I mean what's the stop? something like this from happening with Any well-established large pet company Well, it does I mean I am had problems a while ago mellow mine Malamie from from China China tainted pet food from China. Yeah, doesn't surprise me, but yeah As I listen to the news And watch the protests Some of which are violent yep and read letters I cannot believe the hysteria our elected senators will not even stay in a room to vote They admit they will drag things out on purpose Yeah, well there They have puppet masters Democrats blame Republicans for obstruction, but now They have brought it to a new level The recent vote for president Was in opposition to Barack Obama's changed America When we found out what it was we hated it we were not supporting our military The silent majority is awake Michelle Obama said when they go low we go high Whatever that means well the Democrats could not get any lower Yeah, but when you go low, and you can back it up Then it's not bad That means you're exposing the corrupt or the evil as Thomas Bain say To are you with a person? Who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead I've read that quote before that's very true That's like I guess that's like trying to campaign and win over a bunch of racist teabaggers Out down down south Right, you know you're just not gonna do it. You're not gonna win them over They're freaks they're inbred freaks President Trump is doing everything he promised on the campaign trail Even without a cabinet in place of the very few who kept his promise on day one He is not a politician. Thank God So do not expect him to act like one But we do expect him To fulfill his promises Democrats are just so losers No, because if it wasn't for the Democrats that are left, uh, the the the poor will be doomed More doomed than they already are And the middle class Does the writer have any idea Of the blind partisanship his letter reflected Allow me to plagiarize his misses Changing only party And nominee names And adding a single bracketed clarification The whining obstructionist republicans are totally out of control Still fretting over their nominees defeat in the presidential election seven years ago Their only goal is to thwart and criticize President Obama's every move. They're they're still fighting a civil war. Nothing else surprises me The latest is objecting to The nomination of Merrick garland To the supreme court This is a man Who received 100 percent Republican support in the senate When he was appointed to the court of appeals 16 years ago So why the change of heart? It is clearly just sore losers Not accepting their defeat How sad Perhaps more open-minded readers And appreciate the irony In criticizing objections from democrats of view the neal gorsige domination As the fruit of republican obstructionism When some republicans A single year ago Were proposing to carry the supreme court vacancy Even beyond the november election And through the next president's term You know You know that's as real sad that the deportations have Begun already I read an article of this this woman older woman mexican woman who Has been in in united states for 21 years has children born and raised in the united states that is behind bars Ready to be deported right so what bernie sanders where bernie sanders feared Is coming true families are And will be separated And and republicans Don't give a fuck About it now now while I was I had a little debating Conversation with ken create He says well what donald trump wants to do instead of Having social services to help the poor. He wants to bring back all the american jobs and put everybody to work Yeah, don't hold your breath americans american poor middle class don't hold your breath waiting for the all these jobs To return It's it's like it's like the replacement for obama care is nothing You know Bringing back all those jobs requires A couple of things not not fought through It requires factories It requires people to invest in those factories CEOs the whole bit and requires It requires products it requires to make it a great disadvantage for companies to outsource Which means tariffs. Yeah, well that that is how you would deal with the companies that are in business today When they bring back the product if you bring back those jobs that are lost And the factories that ain't there no more. Yeah, how you do that? You ain't going to get one of your uh top business men to invest in some Humpty dump town Where g e closed its factory about 20 years ago. No, it's that ain't gonna happen.  I mean, uh, there there there's There is no replacement for any social service And they want to come and steal your social security money Oh, do they And george carlin that was towards the end of his rant and and and now they're coming for your social security Absolutely, and they'll get it because Americans don't care I saw him last night on a johnny karson 1977 circa When he had all his hair and not too much gray very skinny. Yeah, he had like brown wavy hair Yeah, and he wasn't as political No, he got political Yeah I mean he did a lot of societal jokes And a lot of everyday stuff mclean stevens was on and Uh, never to lower Well, yeah mclean stavison Before uh, j leno started doing it was doing, um Monday or a monday tuesday Reducing his hours. Yes, because he was yeah, this was an hour and a half show. Yeah, one of the older ones Yeah, usually like karson Gave himself an extra day off because you know, he's getting older and Anyway, so anyway, so uh, yeah, there are many great classical johnny karson tonight show I mean, uh tonight show um Videos on youtube where they have many iconic legendary stars Sometimes the debut of these stars I I watched the debut of m margaret on a jack benny show. She was a good-looking young chick You know Well, these are old shows on uh, antenna tv Well in those days when you're talking about The 50s and 60s.   They sounded Before their man made it to the white house on campaign promises of lower taxes and big spending programs Senate republican leader mitch mcconnell Like to say that deficits are so dangerous that tax reform had to be revenue neutral House speaker paul ryan trotted out plans to balance the federal budget in 10 years Well, didn't they talk like that when gw bush was in? Oh, yeah, texas senator ted cruz Thundered That the government like the ordinary american family has to stop living on credit Here are three predictions to bank on Even in today's crazy quilt political world number one If congress Passes a tax reform plan Oh gosh It not only won't be revenue neutral. It will lose trillions of dollars Well, the middle class Whom has who has the tax burden already Is burdened even more then that middle class will shrink at an even more rapid rate Until it vanishes completely and then you'll have the the desperate slaves Of the poor and the very rich top 20 percent number two the rich, yeah The budget Won't be balanced in 10 years And number three The government Like many americans Will keep using its credit card The republicans are not going to balance anything. Give me a break Give me a break That won't bar much farther president donald trump The businessman Who once crowned himself king of debt Do you see how well historically the track record of democratic Presidents how how great they do with the budget and spending?  We're not talking about Really a great we're not talking about great guys like dwight the eisenhower. We're talking about modern republicans ronald reagan and after Dwight the eisenhower was the last republican to balance the budget No, because he wasn't a selfish bastard people believe that ronald reagan did Ronald reagan and that he never raised the tax Both fiction.  Yeah He wasn't even a good screen actors guild president from what hollywood uh legends say He was a he was a dope there What turns trump on? Our bigger tougher military And lots of infrastructure building he wants a bully other countries including Wasting money to build a mexican border wall. Yeah 20 billion dollar war That you can take you can take care of the poor lock stock and barrel In the united states what scares deficit hawks Like my uh, maginis Who runs the non-partisan committee for a responsible federal budget? Non-partisan is the prospect of a deal To give both trump And capital hill republicans whatever they want Don't they see the waste in the military spending at all? No No, because if you vote against Giving that money to them You're not a patriot You are communist Hey Did they ever look in webster's dictionary at the definitions? No sounds positive to me In that scenario ryan Would get the huge tax cut he has always craved With most benefits going to the wealthy And would agree to take politically unpopular cutbacks in medicare And social security off the table Has candidate trump promised Hey Since if since capitalism has has been always rigged for the rich Then uh You could say commie you can say pinco you can say socialist all you want Evil is evil Good is good Truth is truth and lies a lie Trump would give the money to bulk up the military And build lots of roads bridges airports oh really Infrastructure you say really Yeah To make ryan's tax cuts permanent Without touching the big entitlement programs That drive deficits republicans Would have to take the axe To other domestic spending Robert greenstein And President of the liberal center on budget and policy Priority spearheads opposition to reducing spending on the poor and working class But he has substantive credibility and works with some republics He is warned There are mounting signs that republicans Are planning harsher cuts Than they have offered in recent years Slashing As much as eight trillion dollars Of non defense spending Over a decade that would take domestic spending Exclusive of social security in medicare To about half the average Under president ronald briggs The impact of course would fall heavily on the poor That would antagonize too many voters Including some who supported republicans in 2016 The way to avoid the political trap While giving ryan and trump What they want Let the deficit go Federal budgets has declined From a peak in 2009 after the financial meltdown when it soared Above the trillion dollars For four years The congressional budget office projects It will start to climb again After next year And in five years Will once again cross the trillion dollar value Erskine bolds Chief of staff to president bill Clinton Later co-chair of a bipartisan deficit reduction plan Lawrence That its deficit soar And interest rates return to turn of the century levels Interest expense alone Put them out to a trillion dollars a year That's real That money would not be available to educate kids Make investments And would necessitate More borrowing From foreign countries like China Trump has said he will not touch social security That's what he says for medicare What he says, yeah He has said he would cut taxes by three trillion To five trillion Over the next decade Yeah, how? Social services Increased infrastructure spending By one trillion And defense spending by five hundred million It is privatized Insurance Crap it sucks Health insurance, yeah While this could increase short-term economic growth Bulls said it's a bad long-term plan That will be placing an extraordinary debt burden On future generations Of america So that should be it for this week I just want to say my heart goes out to the people of japan because Uh what the united states media does not tell you Has not told you is these fukushima situation Has become much worse And uh For the life of me i don't know Why they built Any nuclear power power plants On an island country that has so many active volcanoes And lives and with eruptions and earthquakes Daily Seriously, there are more active volcanoes than You think there there are multitudes Of they're in the real front of them Yes, yeah It's really the worst country To build nuclear power plants on i don't know how United states sold them on it, okay We wanted to sell them Nuclear power plants Well, it all goes down to business Well, they're gonna end up with no japan And no pacific ocean as it gets poisoned with radiation Which has already reached The shores of the west coast united states Yes Contaminated fish We're found radioactive fish.  Guess what? Eventually your food supply will run out Your fresh water supply will run out. What are you gonna do?   I mean like I look it gets back to your The george or were george orwell was it? 1984 book Soil and green and all those classics even some twilight zone episodes refer to man self-destructive habits Rod Serling You know and uh, hey knowledge is At our fingertips Even hey even the king change king james bible is online The dictionary everything's everything's at our fingertips But do people learn Do they educate their minds do they apply what they learn? No They don't anyway That's it for The 2017 same valentine's day massacre on our wallet show Progressive discussions. We'll see you next time Of course the department of public works Does the same thing every winter They plow right down the middle of the streets, but when the cars leave in the morning They never plow the snow on the sides to Reestablish all the parking spaces, you know when people leave in the morning There's no cars.   I gotta love them No wonder god wiped them out Once or twice Okay Well, if you're not if you're not counting


So that intro piece that you just saw, that B-roll sequence, and it's 4K at 60, all done on the iPhone X, yet the question still remains, can I or can you vlog on your iPhone X? Can you vlog on any camera that you have? The answer is yes. And it's not so much can I or can you like, is it possible? It's when are you going to start? So the whole getting caught up in gear and cameras and all this other stuff, that's kind of useless if you don't start. So with whatever phone you have in whatever device you hold in your hand, yes, you can use that with vlogging. The key is not to compare yourself with the big YouTubers that have the gear, and I hate when people ask, can I use my phone to vlog? Vlogging in itself is capturing what happens in your day or capturing a moment, right? Like that's what vlogging is and it doesn't matter the means of how to capture that stuff. And so if I were to use my old phone and it was still good content, people would watch that. Like if I was doing something really crazy in the world that it was awesome, it doesn't matter if it was filmed on a 4K camera or if it was filmed on a red camera, it would still be interesting and people would find it awesome to view and awesome to watch. And that's what you want your content to bring, to bring value, to bring entertainment and to bring something so that the viewer can enjoy watching you. They're not going to be like, hey, what Johnny Q, he uses a 6D Mark II right now, he used a, he used a, no, he used his phone. Oh, I'm not going to watch this stuff because it's not good quality, it's not good. Nobody talks like that. Nobody thinks like that. They want to watch you. They want to see if you're entertaining. And overall, they just want to like you as a personality. And quite frankly, having an iPhone that I can vlog with, like the iPhone X, I mean it's super convenient. Like I'm not even using this today. I'm not even using the big old DSLR, I'm using this phone handheld and I can do whatever I want. I can stop and start. I can switch to 1080, I can switch to 120 or 240 frames per second for that super slow motion. Like I can go to 4K at 30 and 60, it's just incredible of things that I can do with my iPhone X right now. I'm not concerned with trying to get the best gear. I'm concerned about getting my content. I'm concerned about getting my story clear, cut and edited and then posted on YouTube. But for those who are really concerned about the gear and specs, yes, you can vlog on your iPhone X, but it's not going to hurt you.  Actually, I don't know why I don't actually, like I'm starting to think, I don't know why I don't use my phone to vlog, why am I hauling this bigger DSLR, I could just use this. It looks good. I'm happy with the quality. This is, I mean, this is all audio from the iPhone, mind you. Now I get the importance to want to look good on YouTube and have the gear to do this whole vlogging thing or just create YouTube videos. But the matter of the fact is you have to just start creating and whether it be a Samsung phone or an iPhone phone, no matter if it's eight or 10 or seven or six, no matter what phone you have or device, the fact is it has a camera, it has a record option and most likely it has better specs than the camera that I have in my backpack right now. I shot this in 4K. I can't do 4K on my DSLR right now. That's incredible. So that's why you should start and yeah, you can totally vlog on your iPhone X. Please, like, please remember, this is the ultimate vlogging machine in my opinion as far as like getting started as a creator on YouTube. The bare bones to an iPhone, I just have my iPhone, it's hand held, this is the audio from the phone. With the bare bones that you have now, yes, of course you can vlog. It's not that hard. And because I'm filming in 4K right now, there's a little bit of a crop, yes.  We live in a day and age where I can just use my iPhone, hand held, and vlog, wherever I am and just show you what I'm doing. And then go edit that in Premiere and post it to YouTube and all your other social media platforms. I hope you found this video helpful. I hope it inspired you to actually get out there and create versus trying to spend money on the DSLRs and all the gear and all the lighting and all the microphones. Just use your phone, get creative with it and do something inspirational for yourself and for those viewing your channel. Thanks so much for watching and I'll catch you next time on the Johnny's channel. Peace. This looks so good. I should have vlogged more with this phone. It's killer at 4K. Dude, my cameras can't do 4K.


If we begin we have been requested to recite Dua Shafa for a sister in India who is going for an operation tomorrow for all of our murids around the world and as we mentioned yesterday there are still problems for our brothers in Syria especially in the Zaynab area. So inshallah we pray for all of those who are near around the world. So we pray. So we pray. Wait a second. We don't have the time. We don't have the time. We pray. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. All praise is due to Allah, Who guided us to this and we were not guided if not guided by Allah. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Who guided us to this and we were not guided if not guided by Allah. All praise is due to Allah, Who guided us to this and we were not guided if not guided by Allah. I wait to save you, Ayman Zamanah. I respect the teachers, elders, brothers and sisters. All praise is due to Allah, Who guided us to this and we were not guided if not guided by Allah. Amongst the greatest actions specified within the holy month of Ramadan is the supplication. To continuously perform da'a, supplicate things towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for all of our very different kinds of needs throughout the day. When it comes to this specific supplication within Shahr Ramadan, the emphasis can be seen by how many different types of supplication are recommended within this month and how we see that there is a formulation, a difference of type of supplication that is recommended within Shahr Ramadan. For example, we see that when we begin our fast, we are given a supplication. When we open our fast, we are given a supplication. At the end of our Salah, there is a different supplication. There is a different supplication for each of the ten nights as we end the holy month itself. And therefore you can see by virtue of so many different supplications and how often we are recommended to recite these different supplications, there is a huge and specific emphasis on da'a within this particular month. And therefore it formulates part and parcel of the system of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala within Shahr Ramadan as part of the fasting process, as part of the purification process that comes alongside the recitation of the Holy Quran, the additional prayers that we are supposed to pray. And therefore all of these things together formulate that direction towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This supplication process, this additional da'a that we find that are given to us within this particular month, they serve a very specific purpose. There is a concept, a theory behind these different da'a that are recommended within this month. The concept is that when we supplicate, we are in communication with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We are discussing with Him between myself, my soul, and Him being the all listening creator and sustainer of this universe. And therefore by virtue of my communication with Him and by virtue of there being so many different types of supplication, I am communicating with Him about so many different things throughout this day. As we look within the different da'a that are given to us, I might be supplicating to Him seeking Istighfar, or I might be supplicating to Him telling Him of my needs, or I'm supplicating telling Him of my weaknesses, or telling Him about my family, or telling Him about the politics of the world, every different type of situation that I could possibly need to converse with my Lord about. There is a da'a for, and specifically within this month, we are recommended to increase our supplication, and we can see that by virtue of how much we are doing that. With this, the idea is that I'm constantly attracting Tauheed. The more I'm in communication with Him, the more I'm in remembrance of Him. Salah ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad. And therefore the concept of being in this constant communication with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in order to ensure that I'm in a constant state of Tauheed, in that throughout my day, whether I am walking, whether I'm about to open my fast, whether I'm in an evening, whether I'm about to finish the recitation of Quran, I'm constantly in communication with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The resulting factor of this is to mold me for this particular month, and therefore to continue to mold me for the rest of the year coming. What I mean by this is that many of our Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, have a synonymous tradition. They say to us that this particular month, the month of Ramadan is the first month of the year. The first month of the year. But straight away we question and we say, well, Muharram is the first month of the year, and Safar is the second month of the year. How can we have traditions from our Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, saying that Shah Ramadan is the first month of the year? What they are trying to inculcate in us is that Shah Ramadan is the first spiritual month of the year. To the extent that our sixth Imam Ibn Ja'far al-Saleh, peace be upon him, is narrated to have said he who keeps away from sins in Shah Ramadan will be able to keep away from sins for the rest of the year. Hence Shah Ramadan is the first month of the year. The idea is that in this month I mould myself to be that individual, that character that I want to be, so that as shawwal begins, as the rest of the year continues, I have already reached that peak of myself within the year and continue on that person. Now here we need to contextualize what the Imam is saying in our time. Sometimes in our families at home or in ourselves, we choose to do something or choose to close off something in Shah Ramadan. For example, and we hear this many times within our families, for example, Dad or Mum or the elder of the family will say, in this month, don't watch certain types of films or you're not supposed to go here within this month. Or the youth will say, well I'm putting in the effort, so for this month I won't listen to music. Have you seen this within the family? Family specifically says as Shah Ramadan, don't watch Indian films. Dad says, in this month as Shah Ramadan, so you need to make sure that you don't listen to music. Now here it's brilliant from one perspective that we're inculcating, the idea that in Shah Ramadan I increase my spirituality. But on the other hand, when we begin to observe what we're really saying, there's a degree of hypocrisy in the same thing. I'm respecting the month of Ramadan, so therefore I will switch off a certain type of film or I won't listen to a certain type of thing. But the moment Shah Wah comes, you know what, it's okay, I'll put it back on again. Which one was greater, Shah Ramadan or the creator of Shah Ramadan? The creator is greater, therefore in our families we have to break this mold of saying, in Shah Ramadan I won't watch the Indian film. I won't listen to music. Son of mine, don't listen to music in this month. It shouldn't be the statement in this month. It should be in Shah Ramadan, learn how to be the individual you want to be for the whole year. If you are capable of switching off that particular film, and let's be honest, it happens within our community. Let's not say, why is it bringing this from the pulpit? It happens in our families. If you are capable in Shah Ramadan of switching off that kind of film, you are capable of switching it off for the entire year. If you are a person who abstains from listening to music, or smoking, or any physical, spiritual, emotional weakness in this month, the purpose of this month was to inculcate that so that you carry it through throughout the rest of the year. Hence how Ahlul Bayt say that this is the first month of the year. This is the first spiritual month of the year. When you practice, you practice for the entire year, inshallah. Now with that, we see that Shah Ramadan is the peak of the year. There is nothing compared to Shah Ramadan. The blessings that we are sitting in now are incomprehensible. There is no way for you and I to tangibly understand what is happening in our souls, in the unseen realm, how much mercy Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is throwing upon us at this very moment. It is greater than that mother who hasn't seen her child for so many months when he lands at the airport and she has her open arms. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has his open arms metaphorically saying, come towards me, oh my son, oh my creation, I am waiting for you to run into my open arms of mercy. The fact that Shah Ramadan is the greatest of month and the fact that this da'a is emphasized so much in the month, the idea is not to just finish in the next month coming in shawwal, however much you have practiced to be in communion with your Lord. When you open a meal, you say to him, thank you because in this month you prepare yourself. When you open your meal, you say it. When you close your meal after salat, you make your da'a, carry this through because you are in communion with your Lord. The fact that Shah Ramadan is the peak of the month, we find that the preceding two months are the ones that help build us in preparation. Everything is geared towards this climax, this crescendo of the year. Rajab is preparing us for Shaaban. Shaaban prepares us for Shah Ramadan. What do we mean by this? As an example, in the months of Rajab and Shaaban there is clearly an emphasis on fasting. Fast. He who fasts one day within those months, hell is close to him. There is an emphasis, prepare yourself. For example, there is an emphasis in the month of Rajab and Shaaban to perform ziyara. We go towards holy Karbala and there is such a level of emphasis of ziyara to Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, in the month of Rajab and Shaaban. Why? It is preparing us to perform the ziyara of the table of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The fact that we are building with preparing ourselves in the same way da'a is also preparing us. In the month of Rajab, we had a specific da'a we are recommended to recite every night. Ya Dhul jalali wa l-ikram. Ya Dhul na'ma'i wa l-juud. Ya Dhul mani wa ta'ul. Harim shaybati ala al-naab. Every night practice this one in Rajab. But then because Shaaban is supposed to increase us it's building the foundations towards Shah Ramadan in Shaaban there is another da'a to be recited. We have the munajat of Shaabaniyah. Imam al-Khumayni alaihi rahma is narrated to have said of all the da'as. Munajat Shaabaniyah is my favorite. Imagine what secrets must be within this particular da'a. Rajab building the Shaaban and therefore if the holy month of Ramadan is the peak of all the months within the year it must have the very best of da'a within this particular month. And that is da'a iftitah given to us by the awaited saviour in Imam of our time Imam al-Hujjah, Al-Jalallahu ta'ala, Fahadah al-Sharif. If these are the best of nights and these are the best of days we must have an equivalent da'a for this particular month. And that is the da'a iftitah. Our scholars have reviewed this da'a time and time again and they have verified it and stated that it is completely correct by their opinion. To the extent that they quote one tradition which says that the Imam narrates that he who recites da'a iftitah the angels seek istighfar for that person. Can you imagine when the angels take time away from worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in order to seek istighfar for you and I that must be a worship on behalf of us that they are doing for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to ask for our forgiveness. Da'a iftitah, therefore must be a da'a that we consider to be of a huge rank to the extent that we could also and may also be reciting this da'a outside of these particular nights of Shahram Al-An. The themes within it are universal. The concepts within it are ones that can be applied throughout the whole of the year and therefore it is this recommendation that maybe once a month we can take time out to recite da'a iftitah to remind ourselves what is the concept of what this Imam is trying to give us. Now here inshallah we have many of our elders and our youths who have been reciting da'a iftitah every single year and now alhamdulillah we also have the translation of it as well so we become accustomed to the words that the Imam the treasures that the Imam is giving to us. In today's world, culture, society we need to continue to build on what we have we need to encourage our youth to ponder upon these verses not just to recite them beautifully not just to be given awards because they recite them beautifully but also we must recognize them when they have understood the value of the words therein because without understanding the value of the words therein we are only reciting this particular da'a as a parrot and therefore inshallah we encourage ourselves to really take the da'a home and ponder as to what the Imam is trying to tell us. Let us start with this question or these series of questions and ask ourselves what the Imam would be giving to us within this da'a? What we know? What facts do we know? Let us analyze the facts of this da'a and see what questions we can come with and then as we begin our commentary of da'a throughout the nights we will come back to these very questions this da'a is given to us in Shahramadan and therefore it must have a special relationship with this month our Imams, peace be upon them all are in tune with the unseen realm they understand Tauheed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the world and the next world for everything that it really is and therefore when they give us a da'a at any particular night or any particular occasion it is specific to that particular occasion da'a kumail is specific for the Thursday night it doesn't mean you can't recite it outside, of course you can recite it as often as much as you want but the reason as to why the commander of the faith forgave us this da'a and specified to at least recited once a week on this Thursday is because something in the unseen realm of Thursday night has a connection with the verses therein similarly da'a eftita'a is very specific why didn't the Imam give us this da'a in Shahramadan? and why don't we recite Muna Jah Shahbaniya within Shahramadan? there must be a reason for this da'a and it's relationship within this particular month and therefore every verse that you read every verse that you read tonight and throughout the rest of your life pose that question why did Imam say this line in context of Shahramadan? one, two if this da'a is given to us by the Imam of our time it must be that he has a relationship with this da'a why didn't the commander of the faithful give us this da'a? did he not know about it? of course he knew about it why didn't our fifth Imam or our tenth Imam give us this da'a? of course they knew about it why did our twelfth Imam give us this da'a? and therefore the fact that our Imam is in Ghaybar for such a lengthy period may Allah hasten his reappearance there must be a relationship between the Imam himself and this particular da'a and therefore by virtue of there being a relationship between those two we are obliged to understand it A, in context of Ghaybar but B also in context of his reappearance whenever that may be and therefore this is another question that we can pose every time we read a verse my master why would you say this? what relationship does it have towards you? and what relationship does it have towards? Shahramadan Sallallahu ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad in line of da'a iftitah Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala Muhammad wa ajil al farajahum Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Allahumma inni af tatih al-thana'a bi hamdik oh Allah Allahumma inni I begin Allahumma inni af tatih al-thana'a bi hamdik I begin by glorifying you and praising you or another way to translate this would be I begin by glorifying you with praise Allahumma inni af tatih al-thana'a bi hamdik I begin this glorification through your praise now here inshallah we want to spend the rest of the discussion focusing on this one word iftitah because in regards to the one word iftitah it sets a precedent for every single feature of this particular da'a and once we understand this one word iftitah and what it is truly saying to you and I we will have an understanding of how the Imam sets the precedent of the remainder of the da'a the da'a can be split into two the scholars who write the commentary of this da'a and make comment they suggest that the da'a can be split into two the first half is a supplication and praise towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it is in regards to the relationship between us as creation and him as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the second half of the da'a is in regards to our relationship and as a praise towards the divine leaders but also an exposition upon what life should be and how we should be thinking in order to aid these particular divine leaders so we have a praise for Allah and we have a praise for divine leadership interaction with Allah interaction with divine leadership and therefore this da'a is split into two as we know as a community when we finish that salawat upon the awaited saviour that is when we sit and we begin to address the Imam and we begin to speak about the facets of the world that we live in and what we want from his coming how we want his government to be how we want the earth to be and therefore the idea is for us to participate in that particular coming now when it comes to this the word iftitah itself has its own measurement upon these particular features the word iftitah follows an Arabic rule in the science of syntax as you know in Arabic we have morphology and we have the syntax we have sarf and we have nahu and one has to master these sciences before they are able to really understand what the Holy Quran is saying in accordance with the language in accordance with jurisprudence in accordance with all the different things that language is going to bear testimony to in the science of syntax there is a particular rule that this word iftitah follows the rule translated in syntax is the more letters that you have in a particular word the more meaning it has to it yes the more letters that the Arabic word has the more meaning that this particular word has to it the more depth that you can begin to extract from this particular word let me give you an example and you understand this very simply this example and then we will apply it insha'Allah through the Holy Quran when we say we begin in the name of Allah the most kind the most merciful we know that the words denote something very specific al-Rahman and al-Raheem come from the very same root word they both mean mercy but al-Rahman is different from al-Raheem al-Rahman is a very encompassing mercy it is a mercy for everything and everybody in creation be you believer or disbeliever polytheist or atheist you are still encompassed within this particular mercy of Allah swt al-Raheem however is a specific type of mercy it is the mercy for the believers those who have strived hard those who are worthy of being designated with a specific type of mercy in this world and in the next they are given that specific type of mercy now we know this because Quran shows us this we know this because Ahlul Bayt have told us this but also even if these two sources haven't told us this the Arabic rule of syntax that the more letters you have the more meaning there is to it al-Rahman has five letters al-Raheem has four letters therefore by virtue of this principle rule that if you have more letters to a particular word you have a greater meaning al-Rahman having five letters over four letters is more encompassing within itself this is the principle of this rule let us apply this now towards the word iftitah and understand what the word iftitah actually means iftitah we will translate allahumma inni aftatiho omalur I begin praising you and glorifying you my lord but it doesn't mean this only we say this in translation but the reality of this is so much more in the Arabic language you have root words or root letters and additional letters the root letters are called haroaf al-asliya and the additional haroaf al-masida in the word iftitah the root letters are fatah fatah therefore the additional letters the additional alif and the additional ta'a to make iftitah are the haroaf al-masida they are the additional letters and therefore when you apply the additional letters they add the value to the meaning when you add these letters it changes the context of the word instead of just saying my lord I begin in your praise and glory the additional two letters make this into a continuous tense meaning that I continuously begin in praise of you my lord there's never a time when I stop I continuously praise you my lord I never stop praising you let us see how this is in Quran and then re-review this within the word iftitah there are two examples we want to present to you about this particular rule within the holy Quran the first one is within Surat al-Hajarat chapter number 49 verse number 9 of the Quran it says when when you see two groups from amongst the believers arguing, fighting amongst themselves bring about peace, reformation between the two of them the word iqtatalu follows this same rule as the word iftitah when you see two groups fighting iqtatalu bring about reformation with them the word iqtatalu is a continuous tense it means when you see two groups of the believers continuously fighting that is when there is an obligation upon us to step in bring these two groups together in order to bring about that reformation but the beauty is that this word iqtatalu specifies continuous argument for example, if you and I argue once let's say we fall it out we have a business transaction we have brothers, we have family members sometimes we have a difference of opinion if you and I argue once but that is the end of it it means that there is no need to step in because you and I have concluded our disagreement we have put it aside, we have moved on we are unspecified iqtatalu when you see them going through continuous arguments when there is no ending towards our disagreement that is when someone should step in and be able to say we will bring about reformation we will bring about surah and peace between these two people the commander of the faithful once brought his two magnificent sons he said to them i will tell you what your grandfather told me if you see two groups from amongst the believers arguing bring about reformation for it is dearer in the eyes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than the person who fast and prays mustahabbat for a whole year bring about reformation because it is better than this there is a story of a scholar who took this to the highest of levels marhum ayat allah said muhammar al-rida shirazi may Allah bless his soul he is buried in holy karbala when you go and you stand in front of qiblah and you are facing towards qiblah if you look immediately left you will find that his grave is buried there within the compounds of the master of the martyrs it is once narrated that say the shirazi as a very senior scholar within the holy city of qom there were other scholars that didn't agree with him so much they had a falling out they didn't like his way of thinking intellectual differences of opinion happened he said to himself I can wait for believers to come and bring me and this other scholarly group together or I can take it upon myself to go and sit with that scholar he called that particular scholar invited himself home and sat with him at the end the scholar came out and said this is no ordinary marja ayatullah sayid muhammar shirazi is an angel walking upon this earth that is the level in which someone goes in order to bring about reconciliation there is a problem between us I won't wait till he comes and steps in I will come to you and say let us separate let us bring about our reconciliation the Quran said in the continuous tense or as another example within surat al-fulqan Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala quotes the disbelievers they would say the disbelievers would say that these are the stories from the ancients the prophet he's not really bringing there's no real revelation it's just stories of the old he's just regurgitating the stories from the prophet the same accusation is one that is labeled amongst us today by the other people they come today and still say that these words are nothing but a regurgitation of the bible the Quran quoted the disbelievers in the continuous sense he does nothing but plagiarize continuously whenever we ask him about yusuf he says wait I will bring you a story he plagiarizes when we ask him about nooh these were the continuous tenses that were made within this particular thing so the point that these continuous tense in the arabic language denotes that when you actively continuously perform this action it becomes habitual for you when we argue we continuously argue it becomes habitual whenever it was accused of plagiarism he was becoming habitual in his plagiarism similarly when we begin with the words we say my lord I am praising you so often that becomes part and parcel of who I am wherever I walk I look around the universe I say praise me to Allah for I see the stars he is the creator I praise me to my lord for you are the creator of this sea whenever I am the one who is continuously praising you and that is what is meant by my master says I begin by continuously praising you it is habitual for me I can't stop praising you my lord and therefore this da'a is split into two it follows the same theme the imam states he begins by the praise after da'a is split into two and the first half is a praise for Allah then the second half must be an evident praise towards the divine leaders and that is why in the second half of the da'a the imam praises Ahlul Bayt in such a manner that you may not have seen elsewhere from any other imam in his time Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin abdika wa rasoolika Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin abdika wa rasoolika wa aminika wa safiyika wa habibika wa khiratika min khalkika wa hafid al-sirika wa muballi ghi risalatika wa afdala wa ahsana wa ajmala wa akmala wa azka wa anma wa atiyaba wa athala wa asna wa akthara ma sallita wa baratta he continues then he turns towards the commander of the faithful Allahumma salli ala Ali in Ameer al-Mu'mineen wa wasi Rasul Rabb al-Alamin abdika wa waliika wa akhi rasoolika wa hajjatika ala khalkika wa ayatika al-Kubra wa naba al-Adim wa salli ala siddika al-Tahira faatimat al-Zahra Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin abdika Allahumma inni aftatiha al-Thana'a bi hamdik I begin this da'a in continuous praise continuous glorification continuous recognition of the greatness of who is in front of me and therefore he starts with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and in the second half he concludes with the praise of Ahl al-Bayt peace be upon them in the end of this first line Allahumma inni aftatiha al-Thana'a bi hamdik al-Thana'a and hamd the types of glorification and praise hamd is superior and therefore every type of Thana'a is hamd but hamd is superior and therefore when you give hamd it is not Thana'a and therefore the Imam starts by saying I begin this praise by glorifying you and praising you in such a way please raise your hands join us in da'a we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the hastening of the reappearance of the awaited saviour we ask you Allah through the wasila of the holy Quran and the awaited saviour of our time to allow us to be alongside him at all times in our life and in our death we ask you Allah if we are to pass away from this world before the reappearance raise us from our graves to be alongside our Imam we ask you Allah through the wasila of the holy Quran and our wonderful Imam we ask you to fulfill this month as you have commanded us to fulfill it to understand and recite Quran as you have obliged us to recite it to fast as we have been obliged to fast we ask you Allah to forgive the sins of our parents all those whom we love all those that love us and all those who are leaders and we ask you Allah to perform the opportunity to perform the ziarat of all of the Ahlul Bayt peace be upon them all and we ask you Allah for the opportunity peace be upon them all and we ask you Allah's mercy and blessings