Well, there are moments in history which are moments of fundamental change. We are living through just such a period. It's a period which is unlike anything that anyone in this room, even the oldest comrade, has ever seen or has ever imagined. It reminds me a little bit of the old maps you know that you had in the Middle Ages where they weren't quite sure what existed beyond the pillars of Hercules. And they put the phrase, here be dragons. The bourgeoisie must feel a little bit like that now. You see, and by the way, what goes for our class enemies goes for us. What I'm telling you is there's almost nothing from the past period for the last 50 or 60 years which can give you any idea or any guide to what is going to occur in the future. The strategists of capital, the bourgeois intellectuals so-called, God preserve us from bourgeois intellectuals, the economists, the politicians, all these strategists of capital are at a loss. They don't understand what is happening. They have no explanation for what has occurred since the collapse of 2008. And now they're heading for a new and even deeper collapse like a man going downhill in a car without brakes. Not a very nice place. Not a very nice situation to find yourself in. And you can see, if you doubt my word, you can see the extreme nervousness of the bourgeoisie bordering, I would say, upon panic, if not outright panic. You see this in the enormous swings, the amazing, it's like a switchback in a fair, the crisis of the stock exchange. The year of our load, 2016, began, if you remember. It seems like a long time ago. But you haven't finished adjusting your Christmas pudding when the news came of simultaneous deep crises on the stock exchanges of the entire world, from Asia to Africa to North America to Japan to Europe to Britain, of course. Colossal falls on the stock exchange. Now, what does this represent? Of course, you understand that the stock exchange, of course, it's true, does not reflect the real economy. That's perfectly correct. It doesn't. There's a large element of speculation, huge amounts of speculation at the present time. As a matter of fact, what it does so however, it shows not what's happening, but what the bourgeois think is going to happen in the future. And you can see from that, this enormous nervousness. Now, compare that, by the way, to the fan pages of all the bourgeois press and all the news reports and so on. For the last five years or so, what were they talking about? Oh, the green shoots. Remember the green shoots? Yes. The green shoots of economic recovery. Well, where are the green shoots? Where is the recovery? There is no recovery. And in a situation where there's no real, there's a partial recovery in the US, but even that is now in doubt. And China, which of course was one of the major, if not the major, more to force of the capitalist world economy for the last 20 years, 30 years even, is now in a deep crisis. Now, what's the nature of this crisis? Well, you can see the symptoms. It's just one thing alone, which is the falling price of commodities. There's been steep falls. In many commodities, the most graphic expression is oil. The falling price of oil. Now, you might think that the capitalists would be pleased at the falling price of oil. Why aren't they dancing in the streets? Why aren't they opening the bottles of bubbly? They're not celebrating. Because they understand from their class point of view what we understand from our class, Marxist point of view, that this falling price of oil and falling price of commodities is not just oil. It's across the board, iron and so on, all falling prices. It is not a reflection of health, but on the contrary, it's a reflection of a chronic sickness of the system. The question that needs to be asked is why is there a falling price of oil? Well, you can find all kinds of explanation. The wicked Saudis, Saudi Arabia is increasing its production of oil, and therefore, there's a glut of oil on the world markets and so on. It is true, by the way, this is quite an interesting little point which shows the contradictions that exist internationally between the powers. The Saudis who were the puppets of American imperialism, now they've got interests of their own, as we will deal with in a moment. The Saudis have been deliberately increasing the oil production. Don't forget that OPEC was formed originally to stop this. There's an agreement of the oil producing countries to stop, to lower the production of oil, to keep the price up, which of course suits the producers of oil. The Saudis have not, they're supposed to be members of OPEC. They've not increased, they've not stopped the production of oil, or limited it. They're boosting the price of oil. You ask me why? There is a reason why. They want to destroy the American oil industry, which is, the Americans of the Yanks have built up quite a considerable native, national oil industry based on things like fracking, which you've all heard about. But the fracking is only profitable when the price of oil is at a certain level. If it falls below that level, it's ruined. And these companies, of course, are faced with ruin, which is what the Saudis intended. They also intended as a measure against Iran, which is their traditional enemy and so on. So there's different elements here. But you see, even if, and I see now, they're talking about reaching an agreement, I don't know what they'll succeed. They're talking about it, as I see the other day. There's been moves to try to restrict the production of oil. But even if they were to succeed in that, which I doubt, because there's other interests at stake, even if they would succeed in limiting the production of oil, it would not solve the problem for the simple reason. That the cause of the falling price of oil in other commodities can be something to be one word. You know what that word is?  Production. But some of you have been reading articles on marxist.com. Congratulations, Congress. This is a word you're not supposed to pronounce.  The love that dare not speak its name. This is the economic element which dares not speak its name. All the booze were economists. They stick to their throat like a fish bone. They can't get it out. The word overproduction, because it sounds like marx. And I am very sorry to say that there's some people who call themselves marxists. And call themselves marxist economists, if you please, that suffer from the same disease. They can't get this word overproduction beyond the Adam's apple, you know, it's stuck. They find other words, oh no. What is it? Overcapacity, that's the one. Overcapacity, yes. As Shakespeare, you say I'm a verser, you know Shakespeare. Shakespeare said, a rose with any other name will smell as sweet.  It's overproduction for God's sake. And now at last they managed to coffee them in bits. I was astonished on the television there that I don't channel four. They actually talked about overproduction of steel in China, good God. Over at last, a little light is beginning to flicker in their adult brains, which Marx explained 150 years ago in Capitalism, very clearly. When he said that all real crises of capitalism are crisis of overproduction. This is overproduction, good God, what else is it? Overproduction of oil, overproduction of steel in China, for example. We'll deal with China in a moment. This affects us. It affects Britain. That's the point of this discussion, my friends. We're not here to discuss international affairs as an amusing item to pass a pleasant hour or so. I hope it will be that, but that's not the purpose of it. No, Karl Marx explained, and Frederick Engels, the founders of Marxism explained, in the first phase of the Communist Manifesto, that capitalism develops as an international system. By the way, when Marx wrote those lines, there was no such thing. There's no such thing as a word market. There's only one developed capitalist country, that was England. France was just beginning in its infancy. Germany was not even thinking about industrialization. Now we see that what Marx predicted has become, it's like a laboratory test of the correctness of Marx's predictions. 150 years ago Marx predicted what is now known as globalization. All the globalization means is that the capitalism, and the capitalism, by the way, let's remember two things. There are two fundamental obstacles, two great barriers which are preventing the development of human civilization in the 21st century. Those two great obstacles in the way of human progress are, on the one hand, private ownership of the means of production. Production is quite outgrown, the concept of private ownership. And secondly, that outmoded relic of barbarism, which should be consigned to the Museum of Antiquities. The nation state, the nation state played a progressive role in the early years of capitalism, the creation of a national market. But capitalism's gone far beyond that now. So therefore, it is the crushing domination of the world market. That's the most important aspect, the most important phenomenon of the age in which we live. And no country can free itself from this. No country, not even a gigantic country like the United States, Russia, China, and that's the proof of it. China cannot free itself from this colossal pressure of the world market. Now, let's take China as a starting point for this analysis. I'll remember, I've got a long memory for some things. 25 years ago, I think it was. I had a discussion with the Spanish government, former Spanish government. Who was arguing, he'd read a bit too much of the bourgeois economists. Was arguing, no, no, no. Capitalism has solved this problem because of Asia, because of China in particular. Now, it is true, let's be clear, but it is quite true that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the collapse of Stalinism, the situation did change to the advantage of capitalism. And the opening up, there's no doubt about it, the opening up of China, the gigantic country of, at that time, 1.2 billion people to capitalism. This was a godsend, which did provide, if you like, like an oxygen, oxygen to the system, to put it bluntly, it saved the capitalist system from falling into a deep slump at that time. Yes, it provided new avenues for investment, very profitable avenues for British and American and French and Japanese investors who made huge profits. Talk about the falling rate of profit. Where's the falling rate of profit? These people, I don't know.  They're typical of the economists, especially the Marxist economists, it seems, or pseudo-Marxist economists. Where's the falling rate of profit? They made huge rates of profit out of the opening up, but on the backs of the Chinese workers, don't forget that. Work, slave labor, working into the factories, like in the days of Charles Dickens and Karl Marx. No trade unions, no right to strike, slaving long hours into primitive conditions for low wages, ideal for capitalism. Yes, of course, that played a very important role in saving the system. Oh, yes. But as I pointed out to this comrade 25 years ago, he says, now look, you say that the capitalists will invest in China, so they are. But think it out. What will the result of this investment be? They're gonna build in China a lot thousands, tens of thousands of modern factories using the latest equipment and the latest technology, and these factories, sooner or later, are gonna produce what? They're going to produce commodities. And since we're on the question of the rate of profit, you cannot have any profit unless you sell your commodities. You're gonna find a buyer for the commodities. You're gonna find a market for the commodities. Where's the market? There's no market in China. Well, that's not quite correct. There is a market in China. Fairly sizable market. Yes, but it's not a market of 1.2 billion people, as they argue, because 800 million Chinese are poor peasants. Dirt poor. There's no market there. And therefore, China, which has built up a powerful productive apparatus thanks to Western investment, thanks to all these things. Oh, by the way, let's be clear about it. Was this a negative thing? From the standpoint of Marxism, I say no. We are very grateful to the capitalists for investing in China and building up Chinese industry, because in so doing, they built up the Chinese proletariat, a very powerful proletariat, probably the most powerful in the world. It hasn't moved yet, not decisively anyway. It started to move, but it's got a long way to go yet. But to paraphrase what Napoleon once said about China, he said, China is a sleeping dragon. When that dragon awakes, the whole world will tremble. I will paraphrase Napoleon. The Chinese proletariat is a sleeping dragon. When that dragon awakes, the whole world will tremble, and there's no question that it will awake. And that process also has begun. But you've got this build-up, a colossal build-up of the Chinese industry, this colossal, immense, productive capacity. Where do they export? You answer me. Now, at this moment in time, where are they going to export? Maybe to the moon. Or Pluto, I don't know. They've certainly developed spaceships. That shows the power of Chinese capitalism. Where do they... The answer is very simple. It's not rocket science. Child of five could understand. If America and Europe are not consuming, as they did in the past, and they cannot consume, because of the levels of poverty, the tax on living standard, the colossal accumulated debt of consumers and companies and so on, if America and Europe are not consuming, China cannot produce. And if China cannot produce, countries like Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Bolivia that have been exporting raw materials to feed this Chinese industry are in serious difficulties. Therefore, the whole business of globalization, you know, dialectically, things change into the opposite. China, from being one of the main motor forces of the world economy, now is one of the biggest threats to the world economy. You want proof of this? Look around. I don't have to look very far. I'm from Swansea. Next door to Swansea is Port Talbot. Ever been to Port Talbot? I know Port Talbot well. The city of steel, they used to call it. It's a vast steel. You never seen anything like it. The whole city is one vast complex of steel making. I remember when they opened Port Talbot, I was an gangster. Workers were earning 20 pounds a week. Good God, they were from Swansea, they were flocking up to get jobs, 20 pounds. That was a lot of money. Average wage then, nearly 10 or 15 at the most. Now it's gone. It's finished. They've just announced they're gonna sack 15,000 workers. That's definite. And they might close the lot. Why? Because there's too much steel in the world, my friends, over production. There is vast over production of steel in China. They produced all the steel, they can't sell it. By the way, we complain about closing factories in Port Talbot, but the Chinese are closing many more factories. Thousands of Chinese steel factories are being closed. There's mountains of steel unsold in the yards of China. Chinese steel workers are gonna go back to the village where they came from to live in dirt poverty. That's why the figures are not reflected in the figures of unemployment in China. It's disguised as huge unemployment. And that will create an explosive situation. As night follows day. Incidentally, I don't know if you know this, I saw this figure recently. For the first time, this is about two years ago, for the first time in history, China is now spending more on internal security than external defense. And they spend a lot of money on external defense, as we will deal with. What does that mean? It means the Chinese ruling class is well aware to totalitarian regime, so you wouldn't know. You don't know what's going on. We know there's been a lot of strikes and demonstrations. Some have been reported, but a lot are not reported. Kept quiet. Therefore, in China, you will not see any signs of a major development until it's taken place, until the explosives are ready to take place because of the nature of the regime. So therefore, I am warning you, I'm advising you, that China can erupt, and it will erupt when people least expect it, when nobody expects it. And therefore, the task of building a section in China is a very important task pending for this international. That's a separate matter. Let's go back to the world economy. The falling prices of commodities is not, as I say, it's not a sign of health, but a sign of sickness. There's the falling price of iron, that's a direct result of the corollary of the lack of demand for steel. Of overproduction. And this of course means that the system is heading inevitably for a new collapse, which will be, I'll predict, and you want to place a bet with me, you're welcome to do so. It will be bigger than, much bigger than the crisis of 2008. And what really alarms them is that they don't have any instruments for solving this or avoiding it. Now, some people ask me, you know, some people say, well, Alan, you talk about the crisis of capitalism and so on, but didn't Lenin say that capitalism will always find its way out of the deepest crisis, that there's no such thing as a final crisis of capitalism? Yes, I answer. Lenin did say that, and I agree with him. There's no such thing as a final crisis of capitalism in the sense that the whole thing will automatically collapse under its own weight. Oh, no. The capitalist system will find its way out of the deepest crisis unless and until it is overthrown by the movement of the working class. That's something that we have to remember. Won't collapse under its own weight. Yeah, but that statement, oh yes, they'll always find a way out of a crisis. That's the statement. Correct as it is as a general proposition, does not tell me anything concrete about the present situation that we're facing. The question is wrongly posed. The question that ought to be asked is this, how long will it take them to get out of this mess and at what cost? Those are the questions that must be answered and you can find the answers in the pages of the book as well-pressed. How long? Well, the financial times calculated, I think it was 12 months ago, to solve the crisis of the euro if they can solve it, which I doubt. To solve the crisis would take 20 years, at least 20 years. 20 years of constant cuts, attacks on living standards, austerity, unemployment, misery, that's the perspective. That is the perspective, okay? At the end of that, they might come out, they might not. So what, that doesn't solve anything. And if anyone in this room imagines that the workers of Britain, of Spain, of Russia, of China, of the United States are going to stand where their arms folded, where they're living standards and the conditions of what are we talking about? What's under attack in Britain? What is under attack by this Tory government? I'll tell you what. The conditions of a semi-civilized existence, that's all. That's what was conquered through hard struggle over the last 50 or 60 years. We conquered conditions of a semi-civilized existence. And even though semi-civilized conditions now are under attack, it's too much. The capitalism cannot afford these concessions, the welfare state, education, and all the rest of it. It cannot be afforded. They must cut. Don't you see we've got a deficit? You understand we've got a deficit? The Labour leaders agree with this. John McDonald, who we know personally, to his shame as during the course, oh, yes, must solve the deficit. Must solve the deficit. Which means 20 years at least of constant attacks. This, my friends, is what? I'll tell you what. It is a finished recipe for an explosion of the class struggle everywhere, such as not being seen, perhaps ever, certainly not since the 1930s, since the Russian Revolution and so on. The conditions are being prepared. I'll prove the point later, but let's go back again to the economy. I said they don't have the instruments to solve these crises. Do those instruments exist? Do the capitalists not possess means whereby they can avoid the crisis or get out of the crisis? I answer yes, oh yes, they have such means. These means are well known. What are they? Well, they're too fundamentally. First of all, reduce the rate of interest to stimulate consumption, stimulate investments, increase the rate of profit, okay. Secondly, increase state expenditure. Keynesian argument. Government spends money to boost the economy. Right, let's take the first one. Reduce the rate of interest. I ask you, how can you reduce the rate of interest when it's close to zero? The rate of interest has never been, I said that we've never been in a situation like this before. Sometimes I scratch my head. I wonder where they get this stuff from. But there was an interesting point made by the Rob pointed out to me. The chief economist of the Bank of England, no less, stated that the rate of interest at present is the lowest that it's been for 5,000 years. I don't know how long has he been around this guy. That's since the days of Hammurabi. In Babylon. I don't know where they get these statistics from. But anyway, it's the lowest it's ever been ever. So let's just compromise with the gentleman. It's been the lowest. Normally the rate of interest would oscillate around 5%. That would be the normal kind of figure you'd expect. Now it's close to zero. In fact, it's negative in many countries. I see the Sweden is just at the, introduced a negative. Japan has got a negative rate of interest. I think Europe has got a negative rate of interest. What's it mean? Normally, if you have a 1% rate of interest, you put 100 pound in the bank and then at the end, you get 101 pounds back. Not too good, but I suppose barely acceptable. With a negative rate of interest, you put 100 pounds in the bank, you get 99 pounds back. So who's gonna keep their money in the bank on that basis? This is absolutely insane. That's the present position. Now, answer the question. How concrete can you decrease the rate of interest? You can't. The Yanks recently have slightly increased the rate of interest. The Federal Reserve. And that caused a panic. They'd have to pull it down again. They can't use that. That mechanism has already been used up.  It's finished. What's the other one? Increased rate of interest, it's still expensive. Now you all watch the television as I do. How are you gonna increase state expenditure when they're talking about the need to cut the deficit? To cut state expenditure is what is necessary, so they say. And therefore, you can see that the bourgeoisie is in a fix. They do not have any means of avoiding the slump which is staring them in the face. That's the reason for the nervousness of the stock exchange which indicates things to come. Now in this context, this general crisis of capitalism, what interests us is not so much the abstract economic theory, although that's got a certain importance. But what is important is how it impacts on the lives and thoughts of ordinary people of all classes in society. And you could say, well, the process has been slow. You could say, well, look, there's a crisis since 2008 and some people, well, where's the socialist revolution? Well, we haven't seen one yet. Yes, but that's not the point. We have to look at this as a process. Human consciousness, we know as materialists, is not actually not something that's progressive. It is extremely conservative. Most people don't like change. They're afraid of change, particularly fundamental big changes. They get scared of the idea. And they will cling as long as they can tenaciously to the familiar things that they know, the existing society, the existing order, the existing parties, the existing politicians, the existing morality, the existing church. They will cling to these things desperately as long as they can. And until the moment comes when events catch them by the scruff of their neck and shake them and they're compelled to face reality. Yes, and this process, comrades and friends, has already commenced. Has it not? You saw the recent, just one example, the recent, last year it was the referendum in Ireland on the question of same-sex marriages. You know, Ireland was a priest-ridden country, the most Catholic country in the world. The priest decided everything. The priest in the village would go from house to house, knocking on the door and ask, why are there no children in this house this year, in case they're using contraception? That's the level of the spiritual dictatorship of the Catholic Church. And it's collapsed. The old stinking edifice has come out of pedophiles, tortures, murders of young babies and children in coffins. They're digging up hundreds of corpses, secretly buried by nuns. This is known to the people. And it's produced, and of course the cover-up of the hierarchy has produced a wave of revulsion, such that in this referendum, by the way, there's no postal voting in Ireland's referendum. People were coming from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA to cast their vote in this referendum, which is a massive slap in the face for the Catholic Church. Now that in Ireland, my friends, it's like a revolution. And it shows that people have had enough. They've had enough. That was ratified just a few weeks, a couple of weeks ago. In the general election in Ireland where the Labour Party, people looked at the Labour Party in the hope that they might solve their problems. Of course, the Labour leaders, as they do everywhere, the social Democrats are just a prop for the capitalist system, particularly when it's in crisis. They rushed to fulfill their role as great responsible moderate statesmen, carrying out vicious cuts against the people of Ireland. They got their deserts. Well-deserved kicking the teeth. They were booted out, as was Finlay Gale, the partners. That means that there's a ferment in Ireland. And this same ferment I will maintain exists everywhere, to one degree or another, at different speeds, with varying intensity, but the same process can be observed. Look at Greece. Greece is the sick man of European capitalism. It's in a terrible state. I know Greece very well. I was going back and forth to Greece for about 20 years. I know the Greek people very well. I can tell you that not long ago, say, six, seven years ago, Athens was a prosperous, modern European country, a city, rather. Living standards were not much different to what you'd find in London or Madrid or in Paris.  Mass unemployment, terrible poverty, schools without books, chemists without drugs, hospitals without medicines, and formerly middle-class people rooting around in the dustbins trying to find food. In Athens, people fleeing to the countryside to find food. That's the reality. They want to cut pensions now. And the Tsipras, by the way, take note of the role of left-reformism. You know, about 18 months ago, there was a pensioner. There's the middle of a lot of... I don't know how many general strikes and demonstrations has been in Greece. I've lost count. This pensioner turned up on the steps of the parliament. It is best suit, suit and tie. And he left a note. He wrote a note which said, I'm desperate. You've taken everything from me. You've taken my pension.  I can't live anymore. I only hope that the young people will carry on the struggle against this anti-popular government, I think the man said. And he took a pistol out of his pocket and he blew his brains out. Last time I was in Athens, I was told that my friend George Scaniotti said, no, there's many suicides. That doesn't make the headlines anymore. People are killing themselves because they can't live under this atrocious system. How is that reflected in politics? It was reflected. Extraordinarily. The Pesach supposed to be the sources party. Supposed to be the mass party of the traditional party of the Greek working class collapsed because of its treacherous role supporting cuts in the government. And you have the rapid rise, the extraordinary rise of Syriza, which was a small left party, split from the communist party actually in the 1980s. From 4% to 30% and they actually were elected. When, 18 months ago, last January, how many months is that? My maths is not very good. Somebody helped me out. 14. 14? Go to the top of the class. 14 months ago, just not, it seems like a long time ago. Last January, Syriza won the elections. And there was tremendous hopes in Alexis Tsipras. Very popular man. By the way, those with illusions in Jeremy Corbyn, who we support, but we support critically, I don't want to test us on the British perspective's discussion. So bear in mind, what happened with Tsipras? Tsipras, undoubtedly was an honest man, I think. Left-reformist, not a left-reformist. He was going to stand up to the treacher, was going to represent the Greek people and so on. Elected into power. He actually thought with the other chap, Varifakis, isn't it? He's on the TV quite often these days, that they were going to negotiate with Angela Merkel and the other crocodiles, you know? They were going to negotiate. Why not negotiate a deal? All reasonable people, aren't we? So they went to discuss. And so, and Merkel, under the table, of course, caught hold of a delicate part of Tsipras's anatomy and just squeezed a little bit. That's all. And Tsipras did the honorable thing. He capitulated. Not quite, however, not quite, because he held a referendum, which was the right thing to do, by the way. They held a referendum as to whether because the treacher was imposing atrocious conditions and so on. They were doing that, by the way, also for political reasons. They couldn't afford a left-wing government to get any concessions because of the example that he was set to the rest of Europe. And Tsipras correctly called a referendum and lo and behold, I think he thought they were going to lose. I'm convinced of that. He put thinking that the Greek people were going to seize the... He underestimated the people. There was a massive vote, no. And people were on the streets prepared to do anything. If Tsipras had been a Marxist or even half a Marxist under those circumstances, he could have done anything. He could have asked the Greek people to do anything. Not just the working class, but the middle class, the taxi drivers, the peasants, everybody were furious at this business. They were prepared to go to the end. What did he do? Naturally, he capitulated, which, of course, has led to wave demoralisation. It's not finished. Now there's more general strikes. You see, he signed a deal. Yes, but let him carry it into practice. Let him try to carry it into practice. Privatisation cuts in pensons as well. He's trying it. He won't succeed. Therefore, coming to Europe, in Greece, nothing has been solved. Nothing has been solved in Greece. The crisis remains. The economic crisis remains. The political and social crisis remains. Let's go further afield. In Spain, you have the rise of Podemos. Is Jordi here tonight? Where's Jordi? He can't make it there. He knew I was going to speak about him. That's why. Now, Jordi Matral is a very wise man. He knows everything about everything, so he says. Anyway, I often get advice from Jordi. And about, I said, two years ago, January, I had a letter from a friend of mine in Madrid who was active in Podemos. He said, well, all our hopes are on Podemos. I said, Jordi, what's this Podemos? He said, oh, it's nothing. It's a small group, which it was, which it was. And then, of course, the mayor elections came as a Jordi. Did you say Podemos was nothing? When they got a massive vote, from nothing, it's true. Apparently, this organization has sprung from nothing. And it's a left, mass organization. In the recent elections, they got almost more votes than the Socialist Party. That's because it was rigged. They should have got more votes. And therefore, in Spain, also, you can say that the situation is drastic. I was in Madrid, and I was there in December, during the general election. In Spain, since the so-called transition, was also present at that time, the fall of Franco. There's been a two-party system, the so-called Socialist Party, the PSOE and the PPP, the right-wing party, oscillating like Tories and Labour and so on. That system last December was shattered, completely shattered. And it will not be easily put together again. They haven't even been able to form a government. What's it now, April? There's no government in Spain. They can't put a government together. That's a reflection in Greece, in Spain. It's a political reflection of a profound crisis of society, not just an economic crisis, but a social and political crisis. Scotland is another example. I mean, good heavens above. Who expected that? I didn't expect that result in Scotland. Who did? The Labour leader certainly didn't expect it. That was an earthquake. And that earthquake remains, by the way. I don't see any. Personally, I don't see the Labour Party of Scotland recovering any time soon from that. And by the way, the vote for the ASNP, let's be clear about it, is a left vote. You saw Sturgeon again on the TV today. She spoke, in my opinion, more radical than John McDonough. Not very difficult these days, I have to say. But it's not, some people said, oh, it's a reactionary vote. It wasn't a reactionary vote.   The ASNP puts them all in. Not that they mean it, of course. You don't have to tell me about the ASNP leaders. But the fact is that they put, in effect, they put a social democratic program. That's what they put forward. And therefore, they get support. But now to the most interesting development, which you're all waiting for, I know. The US of A. Now, I read The Economist magazine every week. And I got a terrible confession to make to Adam. I always skip the section on the USA because it is boring. There's nothing, politics, American politics. What American politics? There are no American, or there were no American politics. You know, the great person I consider personally to be the greatest modern American writer, very left-wing chap also. I recommend you to read his books. He died, unfortunately, a couple of years ago. Gore Vidal, by the way, he's from the upper class of the American establishment. So he knows them at first hand. And he said the following. Our republic has got one party, the property party, with two right-wings. The Democrats in the republic. That's an accurate statement. And up until recently, most people didn't bother to vote. Most people were not interested in elections. Obama actually caused a little bit of quite a lot of interest, but he let people down. But look at the present situation. This election campaign is interesting. The columnist of the Evening Standard said that. He said it was always boring. And now all of a sudden, American politics have got interested. What's the reason for this? And the reason I would submit is the same. It's the same process in Greece, in Spain, in Ireland, in Scotland, and in the United States. It's the same process. That beneath the surface of apparent calm and tranquility, there's a seething mass of discontent. You talk to people on the streets. You'll find that out soon enough in Britain. There's a seething mass of anger, of indignation. This business of Panama, again, that's more fuel to the flames. And it's in the press. It's in the public domain. But there's one law for the rich, and there's one law for the poor, and we've had enough of this, this establishment. There's a growing distrust of everything, of the press, the media, the lawyers, the legal system, the police, the politicians, the bankers. Bankers used to be regarded as respectable people, you know, Josh, when I was your age. Bank manager, the picture of respectability, the bank manager. Now I think that the bankers and bank managers are probably somewhat less popular than serial killers and pedophiles, I would think. But there's a hatred towards the rich. And that exists in the United States. Wonder of wonders. The country of big business, the country of the market, market economics and so on. The American dream gets to its quick. It's finished. People now can see, particularly the young people, can see this for what it is.  The bankers, it's an insult to public opinion. They were bailed out by the public fund, which is, by the way, what's that got to do with free market economics, I ask? You know, what does the textbooks say? The state must not have any role in the economy. Am I right? Governments must stay out, laissez faire, laissez aller, and so on, you know. The state must not interfere. Of course, when they collapsed in 2008, what did they say? Did they say, oh no, the state must stay out and solve this problem ourselves. Did they hell? Did they hell? They came running with their hands out, you know. Rather with menaces, demanding money with menaces, I believe Mark is a legal offence, isn't it? What do they call that, demanding money with menaces? Blackmail, there we are. Give us the money. And George W. Bush comes running with an open checkbook, the representative of the Republican Party of Balanced Budgets, Sound Dollar, Market Economics, laissez faire, he cannot come to the open check. How much you want, guys? A billion dollars, take it. 10 billion, take it, trillion, take it, trillion. And they did. They took this out. If anyone snagged with that, some of you might realize, unfortunately, the government hasn't got any money. The American government, the British government, they haven't got any, they haven't got a bean, unless they can raise it from taxes. And therefore, all that they've achieved in these countries for the last eight years is to transform what was a gigantic black hole in the private banks into a gigantic black hole of the public finances. And therefore, don't ask for hospitals and schools and houses and education and universities and unnecessary things like that. No, no, it must go to the banks, must go to necessary. And the bankers who are insult to injury cause they fill their pockets. The profits of these companies have increased vastly since the crisis. Although the economy is flat as a pancake. Now, how do you explain this?   They can see this, and I repeat, beneath the surface, particularly in the United States, there's been a buildup of anger, of frustration, of hatred, of the rich, of the 1%, I wish I'd thought of that slogan. It's a wonderful slogan, you know. We are the 99%, I wish we'd thought of that. And by God, it's true. There's the 99%, and there's the 1%, and the 1% constantly becomes obscenely rich at the cost of the great majority. People know this.  There's a rage building up, which has got an explosive revolutionary significance. Even you can see that in the form of Donald Trump, don't laugh. Of course, we know Trump. We know that he's a multi-billionaire. We know that he's as thick as two short planks. We know that he's slightly unhinged, and we know that he's an extreme reactionary. We know all that.  And he's cultivated this plebeian image and this plebeian way of speaking, like the ordinary man against the establishment. He demagogically attacks the establishment, even attacks the rich. I don't know how he manages that. Somehow he does. Or rather, he defends the working man, the American working man, against the immigrants and against foreigners and so on. It's reactionary stuff. Yes, but it's court, a court, a court. It's stuck, a court.  And this man seems to offer, he doesn't, of course, seems to offer something different. Therefore, the establishment is quite concerned about Trump, actually. That's dangerous stuff using that kind of demagogic talk. Although he doesn't mean a word of it. They're doing their best to try and stop it. But more important still than Trump is what you see in the democratic camp. You see, isn't there a parallel with Corbyn here? The right wing of the Labour Party made a big mistake with Corbyn. You know, he wasn't even gonna get nominated. He needed how many, 30, how many? 35, he didn't have anything like 35. But the most he had was 17, being generous. We were in Spain, I tell you a funny story, we were on holiday, Anna and I were in Galicia at the time, and she likes to be connected. I do not. You know this. I got a thing about modern technology. I got a thing about it. I'm not interested in Twitter and Facebook and stuff like that. I don't, particularly when I'm on holiday, don't really know. But Anna insists in looking at her bloody smartphone. Hey, look, Jeremy Corbyn standing for Labour. She says, no, he's not. Yes, yes, he's sure. I said, don't give it, I don't give it. He can't, he can't say he hasn't got 35 votes. He said, sure, I'm telling you, he said, let me have a look at that. They made a mistake. They thought that he wouldn't stand the Snowballs chance in hell, therefore, why not let the poor Pakistan and make a fool of himself? They made fools of themselves. What Corbyn represented, whether we didn't come from him or inside the Labour Party. The Labour Party remained as dead as a donor. But around the Labour Party, up and down the country, there was the same burning sense of indignation, and Jeremy Corbyn gave all that is needed, you see. What's needed? What Archimedes said. I always get this quote wrong, but it doesn't matter. I'll get it approximately right. Give me a place to stand and I will move the universe. A place to stand, a point of reference, that's all that's needed when you've got these conditions that have built up. And all that happened in Britain, Corbyn provided that point of reference and by God, the whole thing flocked. The SMP in Scotland appeared to present the same thing, and that also blew up. And in the States, you get the phenomena of Bernie Sanders. Who is Bernie Sanders? Do you know? I'll tell you what, 12 months ago, you couldn't answer that question. Nobody knew who Bernie Sanders was, except for a handful of senators. 12 months ago, everyone knew who Hillary Clinton was. Of course. And of course, initially he didn't stand the snowball stand saying, hell, same as Corbyn was not supposed to stand the snowball stand saying, huh, once this man stand, and he stands up speaking, I said, right, okay, you can say he's confused undoubtedly he is. But he was a man that stands up and he's got some courage, by the way. And he describes himself as a democratic socialist that stands for a political revolution in America. Fighting talk. He denounces the rich, he denounces Wall Street. He denounces Hillary Clinton for being corrupt in so many words. And he gets fantastic support. Big audiences, even in Texas, 10,000 people turn up. I think it was in Dallas, 8,000 somewhere else. Huge meetings. Mainly of young people, enthusiastic young people. And the postwar journalists, they don't know how to react. What the hell's going on? And reluctantly, one of them said, it was in the evening stand, it was, well, I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that it's not in spite of him being a socialist that they support him, it's because he's a socialist. I can't understand this. And here's an interesting figure. These figures, but this figure, I think it's from last year. Last August, I can't remember. Before the campaign took off, anyway. June, thank you, Rob. June of last year, before the campaign started, they got the following figures. You'll correct me if I'm wrong. 69% wasn't it, have you? 69% of young people, more than 30 years of age, I think, in less than 30 years of age, in the States, would vote for a socialist president. 69% of the youth of America. Yeah, and then they said, yes, but the older people are more conservative. The over 65s, only 34% they're thinking, only 34% would vote for a socialist president. I thought to myself, good God, what are you talking about? What do you mean, only 34%. After decades, after generations of vitriolic, anti-socist, anti-communist propaganda, socialism is the same as communism and so on. The fact that 34% of over 65-year-olds in the States say, yeah, I'd vote for an American, for a socialist president. What does that mean? This is big stuff. This is serious stuff. Now, the question is, of course, we don't know, I don't know, what's gonna happen in the Sanders campaign. I think it's unlikely that he's gonna be elected. They'll pull out all the stops to ensure, but I see that he's won seven out of eight of the last competitions, what are they called? Caucasus, primaries. There's New York to come, for the estimates I've seen, he stands with the chance of winning in New York. And in California, and therefore, the establishment of the Democratic Party must be clear. Now, let's be clear, the Democratic Party is a bourgeois party. It will never be a socialist party. It will never be changed into a vehicle for social change. And I think it's highly unlikely that they will allow someone like Sanders to win. They'll pull this stunt or that. If they do allow him to win, then, of course, he can be easily brought to heel, because he'd be one man on his own in the entire Congress, just imagine it, including in his own party. Highly unlikely. And the $64,000 question is this. If Sanders is cheated, particularly after making a very creditable result, if he's cheated of victory, what's going to happen? Well, that depends, of course, on Sanders. Only one man can answer that question. And I think it is possible it's not certain, but it is not beyond the bounds of credibility. He might stand up. Although, he has said in the past, I'll support any candidate that the party chooses, unlike Trump, who said, I'm not supporting anyone else who's ever Trump. But he said, well, I support. Yeah, he said that, sure. He's got to say that. But if push comes to shove, with the enormous indignation that exists and the pressure to be under from the grassroots, is it not conceivable? He might tell us, well, look, this is a farce. This is rigged. I'm not going wrong with this, and goodbye. And split from the Democratic Party. And under those circumstances, that might be the beginning. This is the realm of supposition of a serious socialist mass movement in the United States. Now, whether that happens or not, we don't know. It may not be. He may capitulate. In this case, the movement might deflate overnight, like a tire going over a nail. It's not sure, but it doesn't matter. Whether that happens or not, that's not the point. And the point is this, and that's the message we've got to get across. In the United States, the conditions are being developed now. I'm not talking about sometime in the future. For what? For socialist revolution. I'll be blunt about it. I think that the people there are more open than ever. I mean, it's just a small point, but I was invited. I think I might accept. Next weekend, to participate in a Skype conference, by youngster that appears from nowhere from Colorado. That's a military area, by the way. You had extreme problems fixing this up. Some of this come from nowhere. I think there's people like this all over the States. They're looking for what? They're looking for the ideas of socialism. Comrades. They're looking for the ideas of the international Marxist tendency. And the only task which we've got to do, same in Britain. I've been around for quite some time. I've seen all kinds of situations. But I think Rob will agree that. I can never remember a situation where particularly the young people, not only the young people, especially the youth in Britain, are more open to the ideas of Marxism than what they are today. And the only task which we have got, which shouldn't be all that difficult, it depends on us. If we act in a serious manner, if we've got fire in our bellies, if we really believe in what we say, what we stand for, it's an, I think it's easy to approach young people today. Whether it's in the universities, in the schools, in the factories, on the streets, in the football ground. Although I don't like football, but that's just me. You know, you can win people directly to the ideas of sources just internationalists. You can win people directly to the ideas of revolutionary Marxism if you express them in a clear and comprehensive manner. So therefore, you know, it really depends on us. This is the most extraordinary period. It's the most exciting period I've ever seen. It's an exciting period. It's a period of change in which to sum up, how would you sum up this period? I mean, some people draw pessimistic conclusions from this. Some people that ought to know better.  And there's no cure known to medical science with this disease. It's called pessimism, skepticism, you know. No good at all. And the reality is they draw these negative you turn on the television and, yes, the world seems a horrific place. You'd be entitled to draw the most negative conclusions. It doesn't have time to speak about the Middle East, sir. I attended it also, but I've run out of time. We get an iron chairman. Another time. People can draw negative conclusions. Look at this terrible world. Yes, it is terrible. It reminds me of what Lenin once said. Lenin said, capitalism is horror without end. True. Capitalism is horror. Look at those hard-rending pictures of these terrible suffering refugees, young kids and so on and so forth. Now they've been decorted back to Turkey. Wonderful. A wonderful advertisement for European capitalist civilization, isn't it? Capitalism is horror without end. Yes, but there's another side to this, you see. We've been here before. Open your history books.  When any social system enters into terminal decline, as the case with the Roman Empire, as the fall of feudalism, you know, you get the same horrors, the same collapse, the same disintegration, the same torment, same wars, suffering, bloodshed, cruelty. Yes, you get the same picture. And all that that means is that the old system, the capitalist system, this monster is dying on its feet, it's rotten, it stinks. It's dying on its feet, it's a system that's dying, but it refuses to die. It refuses, obstinately, to die. And on the other hand, there is the elements, the embryo, you see in everything I've said about America, about Britain and so on. What do you see? You see the embryo of a new society that is struggling to be born. A new and higher form of human society but just struggling to be born. What is our task in this situation? Our task is to ensure that all that we can, to ensure that this birth takes place as quickly, as swiftly and as painlessly as possible. That is our task. And I would say, I would maintain, it's the only task and the only cause which is worthwhile fighting and sacrificing and working for at this juncture in human history. And ultimately, the success of this endeavor will depend on the Marxists. That is to say, it will depend on all of you together. Thank you very much.


Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We have five days a week. We go seven hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the Internet at TFNN.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever. You focus on growth. Hope everyone's having a great day, safe day. Let's make it a great night, folks. January 23rd, 2023. Love is responsible for its actions. Everything you think, everything you do as a consequence and you are going to experience the consequences of your actions in one way or another. All human beings are completely responsible for their actions even if they don't want to be. Mugger wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries right now up 218. NASDAQ up 152. S&Ps up 40. Gold. Gold contract up $5 traded $19.44 an ounce. We have Silver up 8 cents. $23.81 an ounce. Light sweet crude up $1.10. $79 flat notes and bonds. A 10-year note. Up 8 ticks. Trading 114.17. The 30-year up 5 at 129.30. And King dollar. King dollar down, oops, where actually, let me get this thing. Excuse me. King dollar down 193 ticks. Trading 102.083. Euro 108. Again at 130 and the British pound at 123 to 1 at US dollar. iPhone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. Let's go to the futures first because this is a market that is crawling higher with light volume right now. So if we end up like this, what's going to happen is that you're going to have a down day tomorrow. So if we take a look at the futures, let's see what we just did here. So from two days ago to now, we just did a 61-8% retracement. Well, being said, now let's get closer in. Okay, so we're going for the highs of yesterday. That number there is 407-8, where we've hit 407-4. And this bar here, you're in nine minutes. You're going to make another bar. Yeah, it's going to, we're going to go for that bar. That, by that bar's game, well, it's only five points away. We'll see how this bar comes in. But that thing is game. If we go to the spy, we take a look at the spy. What you're going to see is the bottom line is that you, but we did out here yesterday. Bottom line, you came down with light volume, right? You did 74 million. You were going into 84. And now today, this is where the killer is, man. You're only up with 39 million. We do 40 million or something. The 40 million is going to 68. That's a building cause, my take, to get to lower price. You know, because we still, see the bottom of the consolidation still has volume. The bottom of this consolidation on the spy at 100 million has volume at 27, 374, 77. We go into the end of the X100. We look at the end of the X100. Same type of set up inside the end of the X100. The, well, we'll see whether we can get the volume.  Right now you're at 33 million. When we were down yesterday with 49, you were going into 52, you know, we're going up on 33. I mean, if this other thing's only does 43 and we're going into 56, your probability goes much higher that you're going to go right back down cause we have not tested the low of October 13th. And that's a high volume low. That has 112 million shares. So there's some real action out here. Gold. Gold contract, gold contract out here. Rejected lower price today at the 19, 15 area. That being said, bottom line is that this is not, you know, you can, you can look at this and say, okay, we got a hammer here. This is not a hammer. This is a hanging man. The difference is, folks, is hammers show up at bottoms of trends, hanging man show up at top of trends. So, you know, we get down there, made a huge comeback. There's no doubt about that. You take a look at this intraday. What you're going to see this comeback was fast and furious. And just the correlation. So, picture this. It started at seven o'clock this morning coming back cause it hit the lowest seven this morning, that 19, 15. Now, watch the dollar. Watch this. This is like amazing, actually. So we, we put the dollar up and you're going to see, I put an intraday and there you go. Same time frame. Oh, 700 this morning. That's how it shook out. The dollar comes down. Let's put this back here and see where we are from the low of yesterday to the higher today. You did a 0.618 retracement. So, it's all, it's going to be all about the Fed tomorrow. Ben, it's going to be about the statement. What's in the statement and how long they're going to go not only out there. Well, I think it's going to be a, you know, 25 basis. Well, a quarter percent hike. Quarter percent hike this time, quarter percent hike next time. We see where this thing shakes out. Some of the higher volume equities out here and we're going to have a low volume day here. Tesla is up by six dollars. You got Ford's moving. Interesting. Ford's up 56 cents. Nvidia's up 270. You got General Motors up 280. Get the car companies moving out here. Rivian's up buck 16. Facebook's up a buck 80. Micron's down a buck 80. And you got Google up a buck 40. We're going to take a look inside the NDX 100. Strength versus the weakness. You got Rivian six percent, six and a half percent. Crowdstrike three and a half percent. Tesla three point seven. Taken away from it. Moderna's down three and a half. You get Micron off three. We get a serious satellite off two and Lucent's down one. Inside the Dow industrial. Strength versus the weakness inside the Dow. The movers out here go like this. Point wise, United Hell's putting 69 positive points. Home Depot 50. Goldman 36. Taken away from it. Caterpill's the big one. Minus 67. Big Mac minus 27. You know, the human error inside the New York Stock Exchange, folks, there's people going to lose so much money. It's unbelievable. So this is how this is how this is going to shake out. So the New York Stock Exchange per month puts like $500,000 into a fund and ought to fund these particular things. What's going on here, though, is that they figure that first off, so this is what it says. It says, invest this hurt with the New York Stock Exchange malfunction, spot wild, swing prices are trying to recoup their losses. Bottom line, it's almost, yeah. Losses incurred in the New York Stock Exchange glycerides could amount to millions of dollars in claims of thousands and thousands of claims have been submitted by Charles Schwab, Robin Hood, Virto, Citadel, and this is where it comes into those claims were submitted at the Friday deadline on the NYSE rooms, likely to exceed $500,000 that the exchange operator set aside to cover disruptions each month. The people said adding the likely loses from the glitch are individual investors who stand to recoup a fraction of their losses. Yeah, you know, there's got to be bigger penalties from the York Stock Exchange, man. Human error and trillions of dollars, bottom line is that, you know, they make plenty of money, man. Time to come up with that bread. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.


In a second. Very cool. Hey all, Dustin Schaffer here. People, some of y'all know me as the Keto Pro. We're gonna be talking a little bit about the $1 Keto Club to do a huge favor. If you're watching this and you think somebody wants to learn about what we do, how we do it, wanna change a lot, get healthier and never just share this off. I'm gonna talk about what it means to be a promoter and driven. I'm gonna talk about what it means to have ketones in your hand to get healthier. I'm gonna talk about how you can participate and you can change your life forever. So, let me grab something quick. Got my photos. I gotta use some photos. So, hey y'all, I'm super excited about this. I'm gonna just rip right into it, but if you currently right now are drinking ketones, put in the chat what's one benefit you've gotten so far. Number two, if you're currently a promoter with proven what's one benefit outside of income? You know, hey, we all wanna make a little extra money. If you don't wanna make some extra money, you're lying. I'm just, I haven't met anybody that seriously doesn't want a little extra here and there. Or a lot of extra, let's be honest. But, what's one benefit you've got for being part of this community? Because the reality is is we all get to grow in different ways. So, we're gonna be talking about this and I always just have a disclaimer right off the bat. Like listen, be open-minded. Don't be like me when I was 30, close-minded.   And then after that, I'm gonna stay on for just a little bit and answer questions. If you have questions about this, the $1 Keto Club, what we do and how it works. So first things first, why? Why should you, if you're looking for extra income, this is what I found. Most people join our community because A, they wanna help people. B, they wanna get healthier. C, the money would be nice. The reality is is that most people are more afraid of sharing their bank account than their number on the scale. People are financially stressed out. And the reality is this, is be open to every opportunity. That's what I'm gonna tell you. Be open to every opportunity, weigh out your options, and then when you make a decision to do something, do it, follow the systems, follow the process. If it's not this, find something. Don't go your whole life being stressed about money. Don't go your whole life thinking you can't do it. Don't go your whole life thinking it's not possible because I can tell you this. As long as you have a heartbeat, a burning desire to change your life, a coach, a leadable coachable and you're willing to take directions and you're behind something that's pretty special, you can have success. You can have success here. You gotta be all those things, but it doesn't take a rocket science to be any of those things. You don't have to be a health expert. You don't have to be a fitness expert. You don't have to be any of those things. You just have to be willing to learn, have some excitement in your life and willing to get healthier and willing to share it with other people. So, super, super excited. I just invited somebody on. I don't know who it is. I don't know how to kick them off. Hey, hi, how are you guys? I'm new to TikTok. So, I just invited somebody on from TikTok and I don't know who they are. But that's okay. I'm live on like nine other platforms at the same time as my joint live at TikTok here. So, but here's the deal. I'm gonna tell a couple of stories. I'm gonna talk about this for my mom. The reason why most of you guys are even on this thing, even watching me today is because of her. Is that when I joined Proven, I wanted to make extra money. I wanted to make an extra $5,000 a month. That's what I wanted. That's what I was doing this for. I happen to be a keto guy. I happen to be a health guy. I want to help people get healthier. I wanted to help a million people change their lives. It's backwards in all my cameras, but that's the truth. And four months after drinking ketones, my mom came to my house. And honestly, she was not the same person. When she came to my house after four months, she was on her hands and knees chasing my son around the house. A year earlier, my son was where my mom couldn't even get off the couch. It completely transformed her life. I called up our CEO of the company. I called up Michael Rutherford, the big dog on campus. I said, guys, teach me this business. I'm really bad at it. I'm not good at business. I don't understand marketing and all that stuff. I just want to help people and I want to make some extra money. I go, but after seeing what happened to my mom, I want to change people's lives. I want to help more people, but I want to financially make more for my family. I want to do more for my family. And they said, I'll teach you. Just listen and learn.  I wanted to change my whole life. It was her story, but there's so many. I have Jake, Fraser, Maureen. We have Wendy, who's out of New York. We have this young lady. Look at her face, how different that is. Andrea, look how different she looks, right? These are stories. Taylor, Taylor's looking absolutely amazing out of Colorado. We have big daddy out of Texas. You guys stay safe down there. We got Kristen out of Florida and so many more, been out of Canada, Mel out of Ireland. Basically, these are stories of people's lives changing, but guess what, they're also all promoters. Well, actually most of them are. There's a Taylor's not a promoter, but he loves sharing this stuff. And here's the deal is we get the opportunity to get healthier than ever before. I get the opportunity to be a better dad. I get to be healthier dad.   You guys are tough. I don't understand.  Why are you so unwilling to become healthier and happier and have more energy and vitality?  I'm on calls all the time with men that are like, I'm just gonna drink my Mountain Dew. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. Stop it. Your family deserves better. You deserve better. Get healthier. So what we, I'm just being a little mean at men right now because I just have two calls in a row and they're just being stick in the mud. I'm like, dude, your wife looks amazing. She looks beautiful. She's getting hot and sexy.   Do something about it. Like, come on, man up. Let's go. All right, I'm off my soapbox. But the reality is, is we all get the opportunity to get healthier. And who doesn't want to get healthier? Why would you not want to be part of a community to get healthier? First and foremost, become the best version of yourself. Second thing is we get to contribute and help more people, right? That's what this dollar key to come. That's what prove it represents, becoming the best version of yourself. It's not, hey, go become a multi-millionaire. It's not, how do you become self-centered and just make it all about yourself. Become the best you can be. Don't become the best me. Don't become the best Maria. Don't become the best Janet. Don't become the best Lynn. Don't become the best Mel. Be the best version of you. Be awesome. Be you. And it took me some time to figure that out. I thought I had to do it this way and that way and say these, no, be the best version of yourself. Get as healthy as you can. Because when you do that, that's what happens. People around you start to gravitate towards you that want what you're doing. The second part of that is share your journey with others. Share your story with others. This is what it means to be a prove it promoter. This is what it means to go out and share and be part of our company. Is share your story with other people. And when you do that, they drink ketones. We have every system in place. I'm gonna talk about the systems in just a second. And then the last part of that is have a financial goal. It's okay right now. I wanna give everybody permission. I came in to prove it for financial reasons. We had a first baby. My wife and I worked our asses off. We worked 60, 70 hours a week. We worked weekends. We worked hard. We had property. We had property in Southern California. We literally traveled and we were sick and tired of being sick and tired. There was no light at the end of our tunnel. Our future was work, work, work, have kids. Somebody else raised them. We didn't want that life. We wanted to have more. We wanted to travel more. We wanted to have a certain house. We wanted to have freedom with our kids. We wanted to take our kids to school. We wanted that life. So we had to find another way to go do this. That was our financial goal here. But it's okay to have a financial goal. It's okay. Like I'm just curious out there if you're watching this right now. And I'm being honest with you guys. I'm on calls every day when people have a dream vacation and they have no plan of accomplishing it. Think about that. They have a dream vacation with no plan to ever accomplish it. They're crazy. They have a car they always wanted and they have no plan to go achieve it. They have a house they wanted or a kitchen that they wanted or a new furnace that they wanted. I met a lady that she wanted to buy a cow. That was her goal. Guess what? She bought a cow. She wouldn't work for it and she got a free cow. How cool was that? Well, it was a cow that she worked for. But what is your financial goals? It's okay to have one.  How many of you right now have no really solid retirement plan? Let's be honest. How many of you are confident at 65 or 70 years old when you retire you get to enjoy your life? How many of you are confident about that? After COVID and after 08, you better not be confident. You better have a very, very, very well thought out plan and that's just the reality of it all. How many people want to take their kids to private school? How many kids want to take their kids to Disney World? They can't do it. My point to this is it's okay to think about the financial side. It's okay to have a financial goal but it's really important that you work on becoming the best version of yourself. And if you do that, you can have it all. You can get healthier, help other people and financially change your life and that's what the Dollar Keto Club represents. That's what prove it as a company. That's who we are. We're about inspiring people to be the best they can become. We happen to have right now it's $1 to become a promoter. So long story short, before proven I was gonna do a franchise. It was gonna be 1.5, I wanna be clear here. 1.5 million dollars to have three franchises in the fitness industry. 1.5 million, I had to get investors. I had to go find people to get that money. I didn't have 1.5 million dollars. And I needed three of them because the only way for me to get that freedom that I wanted, I had to have three of them running and operating. It was gonna be anywhere from three to four years for me to get those franchises running and operating with somebody else running it for me to financially have some freedom in my life. Three to four years and I'd be working more because I would have had my regular job plus the franchises. That was what I was looking at doing. And right now you can start your business for one freaking hour. And then we have a couple of packages that you can buy, you buy and some packages that we call the brand builder pack where you can get some product, some ketones. In your hand, these are like ammunition as people buy little trials from you.  They then buy product and they buy a trial pack. They buy a box, they buy a real kit. They buy 24 fast. These are all the systems that you get for $1, right? The program and the system for $1. And that's the foundation of Provid. That's how this worked. I was gonna go $1.5 million. So when I got the opportunity to buy, it was more than $1 when I started. But when I got the opportunity to get involved, to me it was a no-brainer, right? Because I didn't have to ship product, I didn't have to manufacture product, I didn't have to do an infrastructure, I didn't have to learn marketing and business strategies. I didn't have to learn that because the systems are there for me. I got taught that by people that are doing it right now. We have systems that teach you how to use social media. How do you use, how do you do what I'm doing? We have systems of how do you share your link that has a reboot on it? How do you share the link that has the 24 fast on it? How do you share a challenge link where people can buy ketones? We'll teach you all that. But to get started, it's about $1. It's about changing your life and it's about changing other people's lives. People overcomplicate this thing forever. It's called community-based marketing. What it means is that my mom, who retired, big daddy, Mike, not a business guy, he can build a business because it's about community. I'm sorry, that's big daddy, that's Matt. This is Mike, Canada. He can build this. Mel got new teeth. Mel is transforming and helping us globally expand.  Lin never done business before in her life but she's willing and able to follow a system in place. Jen had her own business, the personal trainer and was losing her business because she wasn't great at marketing. We taught her our systems and showed her how to do it and she committed to the journey and was willing to, Homer Simpson did the game. I'm just kidding.  She was able to follow the system. I can go for days. And even this lady was able to follow the system. 71-year-old grandmother, my mom, is willing to follow systems. She's willing to share this conversation with more people and by that she's able to build herself for residual income. So y'all, that is the Dollar Key to Club. All I have to say is this, get back to whoever invited you. Get back to whoever invited you and say, listen, and be serious. This is my biggest piece of advice to you right now. Have a real conversation. When I was on a call, I'm just telling you, I was on a call with the guy from Iowa. Like, nobody's talking, he's 39 years old. He has a good job, but nobody'd ever set him down and talk to him about his future, about where he wanted to travel to. How is he gonna do that? What's his plan? What's his retirement look like? If you're 40 and 45 and 50 and you haven't thought about your retirement, well, you should think about your future a little bit. What's your five-year plan? It's like, it doesn't make any sense. We just go about our day without putting a plan together. So whoever invited you, sit them down and talk about what you want. Talk about your plan. When I started, I wanted $5,000 a month so I could spend more time with my family. That's what I wanted. Now, $5,000 wasn't getting retired or me wasn't gonna take me away from my career. I needed way more than that to get away from my career. That was what I wanted and Michael knew that. That we could put a plan together and I could put a timeframe on what it was gonna take to get there. Yeah, I thought it was gonna take me two years to get the $5,000 a month. Guess what? Because it was gonna take me a lot longer, three to four years, to get to $20,000 a month. True story. And it didn't take me nearly that long to get to $5,000 and I didn't have to invest that much money. How cool is that? So y'all get back to everybody and have a real conversation with people about money, about your health, about how you wanna change your life. It's okay to whoever invited you here if you're watching to follow me and you wanna learn, we're gonna get on the call and I'm gonna talk to you. I might ask you hard questions and if you're not ready to answer those, you're probably not ready to change your life. Just being honest.  If you are, then let's do that. We've helped team now all around the world. We're in 27 countries. We have team leaders, we have pro champs, we have people retiring from their careers, traveling the world, buying part of our car program, changing zip codes because they are willing to follow a system. They're willing to help themselves get healthier. They're willing to help other people's get healthier. They're willing to teach people, coach people, leadable and they want it to change their life. That's important. Not everybody wants to change your life. So when you're ready to change your life, come join us or join something that's going to support who you are as a person and then go do it. Come on. All right y'all, I'm gonna be quiet now. I ramble for my 15 minutes, but it's game time. So listen, I didn't get to say hi to everybody. I'm on like nine platforms at one time. So if you're following me on TikTok and you can't comment me, come over to Instagram, the Key to Pro on Instagram, you can hit me a private message. If you want any information, but if you guys need information, you can get it from me directly. If somebody invited you to follow me, I will ask you that question and I will make sure you get connected to whoever and followed you, but get back to whoever invited you to any of these lives and let's have a serious conversation.  Let's talk about it. How can you do this? Can you fit? And I'm just telling you, if I can do it, you can do it. Y'all, I didn't have good enough grades in the college. Y'all, I didn't know how to read. I read my first book when I was 35. I talked sideways. I was in speech language. I was a speech impediment. I had learning disabilities. Y'all, you don't have to be a working rocket scientist to do this.  And that is the key. That's the secret to the whole thing. And then surround yourself with smart people which proved already for the hardest in the world of marketing and doctors that they're willing to do the talking for you. So you don't have to be a rocket scientist. The smartest person in the room is the one that uses the smartest people in the room. Does that make any sense? So, y'all, changing zip code, gentlemen, it's a dollar chain of changing lives. It does. Any questions? I'm gonna do a quick scan if you have a question for me. Cousins are on my team. Which Dustin's team? Let's go. Hey, cousins, y'all, you guys all work so hard. There's a bunch of cousins up from the upper northeast and they work so hard working out. Man, let's take 5% of that energy and y'all can make a, I mean, literally travel world. Buy a new house, buy a new car, buy a new kitchen sink. I don't care, but I know for a fact that everybody watching this has a dream, has something that they want in their life and they've already given up on it. Or they have no plan to accomplish it. Doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. My wife and I were just about this house a year ago. Well, guess what? This isn't our last house. We have our dream house that we're building, right? Well, we don't have the income for it yet. We don't. We don't have the lot yet, but we have a plan. We have a plan to go make that happen and accomplish it without a plan. You're not, we're not gonna, it's not gonna magically just, there it is. We have a plan to go get it, y'all. And so if you don't have a plan, let's create one for you. Let's do this thing.  Thanks, Ayan. I'm not sure things that appreciate that. I'm reading TikTok. TikTok's a little new to me. I'm warming up to TikTok. I got some videos that went viral, so I have a lot of followers, but I've still learned in that whole platform. I see any questions, y'all. If you have questions, reach out to me. Appreciate you all plugging in, staying on and listening in. And listen, do this with the pole. It's, we live in a weird world.  Actually, it's not true. People always talk about how sick they are, but they never talk about how broke they are and what they're willing to do to change it. And I used to live in this life of, I used to live in this place where I wanted to help everybody. And now I just realize, I kind of want to help people that want to be helped, if that makes any sense. I really want to help people that want to be helped. And I want to inspire people that want to eventually be helped. Does that make sense? Instead of trying to save the person that's going to complain every day about how bad their life is, I want to help the ones that's willing to go do something about it and then inspire the ones complaining to want to go change their life and then meet them where they're at. So that's my ultimate goal. That's a learning lesson in my life where I used to attract basically the negative Nellies. I don't want those people anymore. I want the positives. I want the me's. I want the people that are excited to go out and do something about it and inspire the rest who want more. So, y'all, I gotta go. I appreciate y'all hopping on. Appreciate taking a few moments. I'm looking over at TikTok or Facebook. Facebook going crazy over here.  I feel better than 20 years. Yeah, Lori's feels awesome. Y'all, I'm out of here. If you're not drinking ketones, listen. Listen, you don't have a better chance of getting healthier. There isn't one out there.  I don't care what kind of diet you're doing. I don't care if you're doing a keto diet, a non-keto diet, a high carb diet. Drink ketones, get therapeutic in your levels. Get your body to therapeutic level ketosis. Maintain it for six months, and then you tell me how much different your life is.   You tell me, it's just, it's life changing. So if you're not doing that at minimum, take step one, change your life. Get healthier, become the best version of yourself, y'all. Peace, I'm out of here.  Facebook, you guys are gone.


Welcome everyone. This is Melissa Arma with the stocks. What should I'm here going over a fit? This was the short today. I got stopped out of the first trade of this Then I had to retake it and actually now I'm in it again for an afternoon play only because I think this drops and we have The market with us and it's good timing and It didn't get to the target in the morning and I do think this does get to the target I'm really not sure why this didn't get to the target in the morning other than the fact that it had a decent move into the gap and And It just didn't want to break all the way through where I wanted to this morning, but I got stopped out of the first trade in this So I took this here and I got stopped out in this bar And I was literally thinking about trying to lower the stock and as I was considering that it took me out Anyways, then I got stopped out had some slippage. I Did not do this right away is again in here. I kind of got off of it. I really was going to just Leave it. I ended up doing another trade CHG that worked but then I went back and said wait a minute There's something here. I kind of jumped the gum and took it here I willing to hit it at 91 But then it it actually never broke 91 until later, but it did break 91 It held me in the stop here literally by a penny at the stop at 1415 Then I put it at 1416 and and got the move and but I didn't hold this whole thing down because I had I Had been I'd lost in the first trade then made money in the second trade And I made money in something else completely So it didn't bother me that I actually didn't hold it all the way down this morning, but you could have I will tell You though that this is good this afternoon This is a 15 minute that just triggered here. It's 34 34 by 62 It doesn't seem like a whole lot to give all the way down, but this could go to 13 1290 we've got the market Had the rally into 12 o'clock 12 o'clock major reversal time held here in a 15 minute chart Let's look at the 60 And the six I know this is the 30 a 30 is already triggered So you just have to be a little bit patient in the afternoon actually hold on. Let me just look This is where we basically bounce this morning. I think we just continue lower here today I mean, and it's not just because of the market. It's because it was a good gap It was a good gap, but it was wily this morning. Oh my goodness. I'm just looking at something here I just realized the stock normally goes a dollar 60 let me just see here a dollar It was about a dollar ten range No, we did have a dollar we did have more than a dollar range here today If I'm looking at the high of 1430 and the low of 1317 we did have it a dollar plus range 1290 Would be like a dollar 40 That's not a big bar. Let me just look at a big bar here This bar over here in January for the stock went That will this is well, this is medium to big This is a smaller bar here actually so now let's just think outside the box for a minute It's almost three dollars. I I think that this maybe could get to 1250 I will just say I mean the target's 13 and then after that 1290 1280 1275 1250 So we'll see what happens. I'm in FIT for an afternoon trade. It's already triggered, but it's not too late to do it Looks good. This is Melissa arm with a stock swash FIT was the play of the day. It's also an afternoon play It's 1230. You got to wait for it to go But I think this this has already happened. It shouldn't do anything else like that. This rally back was pretty big Okay, then it made the nice topping tail here and broke So you could be in this the target is 13 then 1290 and it could actually break that actually Because this was not a large day yesterday the range was a dollar something But it wasn't a big day. This could be a big day today because of the gap So email me at Melissa at the stocks wish comm if you'd like more information Or you want to sign up for the Golden Gap class this weekend? It's Saturday and Monday and good luck and congratulations to everyone that did FIT today and the stocks will show live trading room Have a good day everyone


Football is a sport usually renowned for its speed, urgency and physicality. But here on the South Coast, AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust approving that a change in pace can also be a step in the right direction. This is Walking Football. We have our 50-plus age group here and it's the opportunity for them to participate on a regular basis and enjoy some competitive football. You know, the objective is to try and pass it and try and get it into that goal but you're not allowed to run. That's the biggest difference. There's not so much contact, which is good. We don't need contact at our time of life. How difficult is it to resist the temptation to run sometimes? Very difficult. We get called up all the time because it's just natural to run but you just have to resist. I had open-heart surgery, never played football in my life and I was advised to take up a sport. So I joined the club here and there was a time where I couldn't even climb the stairs. Now as you see, I've been running up and down for half an hour or walking up and down, as they say. And I'm much fitter than I've ever been. I even scored the odd goal. I was surprised at most. It's marvellous for my health and I find myself kicking the ball as hard as I did when I was playing at 30, which is fantastic. What have you done wrong till you've brought it? No, no, no.  You think you're learning anything? I think so, yeah. Some of you like to move better than me. How does it feel knowing that this is your future? Could be worse. Junior, is this your first time experiencing walking football? Yeah, first time coming down, having a little look at it. To be fair, I think a few of the lads are cheating. I've seen a few people having a little jog in that, so... No, it's good to see some good goals being scored as well, so it's nice to be down here. There's a few more grey hairs, but do you notice a similar level of camaraderie here to what you might get in the Bournemouth dressing room? Yeah, you definitely get a lot of the banter. Definitely the will to win. If you mix those things together, it's obviously good for them. And if they're ever short of a player, are you signing up? I'm definitely coming down. Yeah, they kept me involved anytime. Appreciate you coming round anyway. Thank you. Thank you very much. Cheers. Sociable is a great bunch that come here every week, and it's just a really, really good atmosphere, even though it is competitive. We've got somebody who's 78 here and really enjoys playing each week, to be very popular with our free sessions that we run every week with lots and lots of players now enjoying walking football. Callum Wilson moves on. I'm up for a striker. And I'm cheap too.