A very good evening aspirants. I welcome you all to the daily hindu news paper analysis brought to you by Shankar's academy today I'm going to cover a different news articles from the hindu newspaper dated 29th of December 2022 Displayed here are a list of news articles that we are going to discuss today. Now without any delay Let's get into the first news article discussion Now look at this news article here it talks about the Neelgrithaar see yesterday The Tamil Nadu state government has launched an initiative for the conservation of endangered Neelgrithaar See this conservation program is to be implemented for a period of five years. That is from 2022 to 2027 and this is the crux of the news article given here now in this context Let us learn about Neelgrithaar from prelims perspective. See Neelgrithaar is considered as a pride of western gods Because Neelgrithaar is endemic species of western gods Know that the Neelgrithaar is the only mountain hoofed mammal in southern India amongst the 12 species present in India It is found in the tropical mountains of southern India. That is none other than western gods And note one fact here Neelgrithaar is the state animal of Tamil Nadu This is a brief about Neelgrithaar now talking about its conservation status see Neelgrithaar is listed as Endangered in the IUCN red list of threatened species It is also protected under schedule one of the wildlife production at 1972. It is about conservation Now coming to its habitat. See it is found in open mountain grassland habitats at elevations from 1200 to 2600 meter of the southern western gods Currently the Neelgrithaar distribution is along a narrow stretch of 400 kilometers in their western gods And this is between Neelgrithaar in the north and Kanyakumar Hills in the south of the region Here you should also know that the Arvikulam national park in Anemali Hills of Kerala is home to the largest population of Neelgrithaar and this is about habitat. Now talking about the threats faced by Neelgrithaar See the Neelgrithaar faces multiple threats from both natural and man-made factors as we know Habitat loss due to deforestation is shrinking their area of habitation Then there is competition with domestic livestock then hydroelectric projects in Neelgrithaar habitat and monoculture plantations See these are all some of the other threats faced by Neelgrithaar and the animal is also occasionally hunted for its meat and skin This is about the threats now coming to the news article This news article mentions that there are challenges in the conservation of Neelgrithaar's The challenges are due to highly fragmented populations of Neelgrithaar then invasion of exotic species in the habitat Then forest fires then over exploitation of forest resources and lack of ecological data and understanding See these are all some of the challenges in the conservation of Neelgrithaar So the conservation program by the government of Tamil Nadu will going to focus on understanding the species So that it could be very useful for their conservation And that's all regarding this news article in this news article We saw about Neelgrithaar its conservation status then habitat then some of the threats faced by Neelgrithaar And finally about some of the challenges in the conservation of Neelgrithaar's See this topic is very important from the prelims perspective So make note of each and every points that we discussed now with these key points Let's move on to the next news article discussion Now look at this text and context article here This article the author discusses about the need for caste senses various points highlighting the advantages of caste senses are provided in this article The opinion of the author of the editorial is that not conducting caste senses will only benefit the privileged or the elite class And this is the essence of the article given here in our discussion today We will see what is caste senses then what is the need for caste senses? And finally we will see some issues with the caste senses In the need for caste senses part we will see the various points highlighted in the article This is the plan but before we start I want to say that this discussion is very useful for your main examination Because the thing that we are about to discuss has relevance in both gs paper 1 and gs paper 2 In gs paper 1 we have social empowerment Communalism, regionalism and secularism part where they might ask questions about the role of caste senses in inciting communalism In gs paper 2 we have the government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation Where they might ask questions about the relevance of caste senses for upward social mobility So this discussion is very important listen very carefully and make use of it Let's first see a little bit of background See in 2011 the socio economic and caste senses was conducted in India This was the second time the socio economic and caste senses was conducted in India The first census was conducted in 1931 and the 2011 socio economic and caste senses focuses on two things One the economic status of an individual and the individual's particular caste By correlating this both the socio economic and caste senses tried to study the economic inequality between the castes The socio economic and caste senses was mainly conducted to identify the beneficiaries of government support Although the 2011 census data was made available for the government to identify the potential beneficiaries The government did not disclose the raw caste data on other backward class collected during socio economic and caste senses 2011 See the caste data and the senses that is mainly the data about the OBCs has been lying government with the ministry of social justice and empowerment The government of India said due to flaws in the caste data It will not be made available to the public To explain the flaws in the 2011 census the government of India stated these examples In Maharashtra for instance the existing SC, ST and OBC categories as per government records are only 494 But the 2011 caste senses yielded 4,28,677 castes And at the national level according to the 1931 socio economic and caste senses there were a total of 4,147 castes But the 2011 caste senses showed that the presence of 46 lakh different castes in India Finally of all the castes enumerated in 2011 census 99 percentage had a population of less than 100 percent The government citing these flaws Termed the 2011 caste senses is underlayable and did not publish the caste data to the public Now you may have a question. What is the need for socio economic and caste senses? When we already conduct the caste senses every 10 years right and do we collect caste data as a part of normal senses? Let me explain As part of the normal senses exercise We collect caste data regarding SCs and STs only The caste data regarding OBCs and upper castes are not covered under normal senses exercise The normal senses only provides a picture of the Indian population And it is the socio economic and caste senses that helps in identifying the beneficiaries of state support And also helps us to understand India's graded caste hierarchy Due to this only many people demanded the collection of all caste data as a part of 2021 census For example in 2021 the Maharashtra government demanded the collection of data on the backward class of citizens of rural India during the enumeration of 2021 census But the union government said that collection of caste data except the collection of data on SCs and STs Which is done traditionally was unfeasible and administratively difficult and cumbersome And this is the status so far regarding caste senses. Now with this background Let's see the need for caste senses First is data driven decision making see the data from caste based senses will help the government rationalize the reservation policy how currently the caste based reservation that we currently provide is based on the caste senses carried out in 1931 and population has undergone a lot of change after 1931 So conducting a caste based senses will provide the government with necessary information And using this information the government can rationalize the reservation policy in our country This prevents setting communities from enjoying the lion's share of government's reservation policy Then data from the caste based senses can also be used by the government to form effective government policy For example after conducting a caste based senses the government finds that a particular area has people Belonging to a particular caste and they face a certain kind of problem to address this problem The government can evolve localised plans like this the caste based senses can help the government evolve data driven localised plans This is about the first need that is data driven decision making now coming to the second need It is understanding India's caste hierarchy and establishing a just society according to various scholars Formal blindness or not acknowledging the presence of caste in a casteist society Then this might result in a denial of caste based privileges That some caste continue to experience in our society So when we ignore the presence of caste the elite caste will continue to get all the opportunities offered by the government According to various scholars in order to abolish caste it is essential to first abolish caste-derived privileges In order to abolish caste-derived privileges the government must first identify castes and their socioeconomic status Using the caste based senses the government can identify whether a particular caste is privileged or deprived After this only the government can take measures to reduce the privileges Enjoyed by a particular caste and take steps to uplift the castes that are deprived See these are all some of the points that necessitates the need for caste based senses Now let's see the issues with caste based senses Firstly some people believe that caste senses will further entrench caste identities This will stand against the way of national building as caste identities might lead to infighting among our citizens The author of the editorial counter this claim by saying that only a full caste-wise senses will help us to understand privileges Some costs continue to enjoy The author believes although in the short term caste based senses might create some friction In the long term caste based senses will be beneficial Then the second issue with the caste based senses is regarding the misuse of the caste data The political parties might use the caste based data to involve in vote bank politics The author of the editorial places a counter to this point also He says that even now political parties map the caste and religious composition of neighborhoods cities and villages to mobilize votes For example in Tamil Nadu during elections in some constituencies the candidates nominated by all the political parties Will belong to a particular caste or religion So even without the caste senses all the political parties use caste to mobilize votes So according to the author citing this as a reason to not conduct caste based senses is correct The author says that once caste senses is collected and made available to the public It removes the power that the political parties hold over the public because then the public will clearly Understand the motive behind every move of the political parties Then the last issue cited by the government regarding caste senses is It is cumbersome and logically difficult to conduct Here the author says that most people in the upper bureaucracy and even the caste department are filled with people of the elite caste Once the caste based senses is completed It is the people of the elite caste who will lose their privilege So according to the author the bureaucrats are resisting the caste senses process to continue enjoying their privilege And to prevent caste senses from happening they cite vague reasons like the process is difficult and cumbersome See these are all some of the issues with caste based senses and the counter offered to it by the author Finally the author suggests that moving forward when the caste senses is conducted in the future The entire operation might be under the oversight of anti-caste organizations and public intellectuals who have dedicated their life fighting oppression in our country Finally, I am ending this discussion with a quote to the privileged equality feels like oppression That's all regarding this news article discussion. This discussion we saw about what is caste based senses Then we saw in brief about the socioeconomic and caste senses of 2011 Then we saw about the need for caste senses and finally we saw about some of the issues with the caste based senses As I told earlier this topic is very important for your mains exam So make note of each and every points that we discussed in this article Now with these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion Now look at this text and context article here It says that Jan Vishwas bill 2022 was tabled by the union government last week See the objective of the bill is to decriminalize 183 offenses across 42 legislations and to enhance the ease of living and doing business in India This bill is an attempt to reverse the trend of over criminalization And this is the crux of the news article given here Now in this context, let us see the important provisions of the bill and also its shortcomings But before that the syllabus relevant to this article is given here kindly go through it First of all, what is the need for this bill? See, we saw that the bill's main objective is to reverse the trend of over criminalization It means that over criminalization is serving as a hindrance to ease of living and doing business in India Now, first of all, you should understand what is over criminalization? See, it is nothing but the overuse or misuse of criminal law to address societal problems Which could be addressed more effectively through the civil legal system or other institutions So as per the article, India is now seeing the trend of over criminalization See, the government is using criminal law as a political tool And this act of enacting criminal law has become a medium for the government to show a strong image And this trend of over criminalization has some consequences The first consequence is the pending of cases See, as per the national judicial data grid, out of the 4.3 crore pending cases, nearly 3.2 crore cases are related to criminal proceedings So the pending of criminal cases have a direct relation to the number of criminal laws Then the second consequence is the increase in prison population As per the national crime records bureaus, prison statistics of 2021, a total of 5.54 lakh prisoners were confined in prisons Against a capacity of 4.25 lakh See, these two consequences necessitated the Jan Vishwas Bill 2022 This bill aims to decriminalize offence in many legislations Now, with this understanding, let's move on to see the important provisions of the bill See, the scope of the bill is very large. It includes amendments to 42 legislations It is not necessary for us to see all those amendments And it is also impossible to remember them all So, I will give you an idea about what the bill is See, the first provision is regarding decriminalizing certain offenses The Jan Vishwas Bill either omits or replaces penal provisions in certain legislations with monetary penalty Some of the important legislations which are to be amended include Air Act, then Environment Production Act, Forest Act, Drugs and Cosmetics Act, Cinemotograph Act, Patents Act, then Trademarks Act and Information Technology Act, etc Remember, as I already said, 42 legislations are to be amended as per the bill Here, I have mentioned some important legislations alone Now, I will give you an example for the first provision that is regarding decriminalizing certain offenses See, under the Information Technology Act 2000, disclosing personal information is punishable with Impressment of up to 3 years, or a fine of up to 5 lakh rupees or both But the Jan Vishwas Bill replaces this with a penalty of up to 25 lakh rupees Now, you understand how the bill is decriminalizing the offenses Then the second provision is revision of fines and penalties See, the bill increases the fines and penalties for various offenses in the specified acts And these fines and penalties will be increased by 10% of the minimum amount every 3 years after the bill becomes an act Then the third provision is the appointment of adjudicating officers As per the bill, the central government may appoint one or more adjudicating officers for the purpose of determining penalties And these adjudicating officers may summon individuals for evidence and they can conduct inquiries into violations of four acts These acts include agricultural produce, grading and marketing act 1937 Then air prevention and control of pollution act 1981 Then environment production act 1986 and public liability insurance act 1991 This is about the third provision And the next important provision is the appellate mechanisms See, the bill specifies the appellate mechanisms for any person Aggrued by the order, passed by an adjudicating officer For example, in the case of environment production act 1986 Appellates may be filed with national green tribunal within 60 days from the order And these are the important provisions of Jan Vishwas bill 2022 See, everything has its own advantages and disadvantages right? So, this bill also has some shortcomings Now, let us see what they are Firstly, the author is quoting the report of Observer Research Foundation The report is titled as Jailed for Doing Business This report found that there are more than 26,134 imprisonment classes in a total of 843 economic legislations in India So, compared to this, the number of offenses deregulated under the bill is significantly less See, the author is saying that if the bill aims to decriminalize the legislations, then it should cover all This is the first shortcoming Secondly, the author is saying that the regulatory offenses that are to be decriminalized Should be viewed from the point of criminal justice system also This means that it should not affect the justice provided to the aggrieved party So, according to the author, the shortcoming here is that the bill views offenses only from the point of view of ease of doing business Lastly, the author is saying that the bill mainly concentrates on limiting decriminalization to regulatory domains But the author is saying that decriminalization should be extended to several other penal offenses Such as sedition, then offenses under unlawful activities, prevention acts, etc See, these are the some of the shortcomings See, the bill is aimed to ensure that imprisonment is replaced with fines for as many offenses as possible But the success of the bill is questionable Now we have to wait and see how the bill turns out And that's all regarding this discussion In this discussion we saw about Jan Vishwas bill 2022 Then what is the need for such a bill Then some of the important provisions in the bill And finally, some of the shortcomings in the bill See, this topic is very important in the aspect of mains So, make note of each and every points that we discussed in this article With these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion Now, have I looked at this news article? This news article says that Vigilance Commissioner Praveen Kumar Srivastava has been appointed as the acting Central Vigilance Commissioner Now, in this context, let us revise about Central Vigilance Commission See, Central Vigilance Commission was established in February 1964 Based on the recommendations of Sandhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption Central Vigilance Commission consists of a Central Vigilance Commissioner and two Vigilance Commissioners Initially, it was constituted by a resolution And it gained statutory status in the year 1998 through an ordinance However, at present, it is a statutory body established under the Central Vigilance Commission Act of 2003 Now, why was this organization established? See, it was established to address corruption in the country See, the government based on the Sandhanam Committee recommendation Decided to establish an Apex Vigilance Institution Which is free of control from any executive authority And this led to the creation of Central Vigilance Commission Know that the Central Vigilance Commission does not come under any ministry And it is basically an independent body which is answerable or responsible only to the parliament Now, what is the role played by Central Vigilance Commission? See, the Central Vigilance Commission monitors all Vigilance activity under the Central Government It also advises various authorities in Central Government organizations in their Vigilance work Then, Commission also receives complaints on corruption or misuse of office And recommends appropriate action And you have to know that the Central Vigilance Commission is not an investigation agency See, the investigation is either done through the CBI Or through Chief Vigilance Officers in Government Officers The Central Vigilance Commission looks into the offenses committed by certain categories of Government Officers under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 The Commission is vested with the powers of Superintendents over the C-Base functioning As far it relates to Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 And in general, it has the Superintendents of Vigilance Administration in the Central Government and its organizations In 2013, the parliament enacted the Lokpal and Lokoyitaks Act 2013 This Act has amended the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 After the amendment, the Commission has been empowered to conduct preliminary inquiry And further investigation into complaints referred by the Lokpal Then, as per the Whistleblowers Act 2014 The Central Vigilance Commission can also receive complaints about corruption from whistleblowers See, these are all some of the functions of the Central Vigilance Commission Now, moving on to see the jurisdiction of the Central Vigilance Commission Now, look at this box here See, these are all the people who are placed under the Central Vigilance Commission's jurisdiction Pass the video and go through it In addition to this, the Commission's jurisdiction also includes any company Where the cumulative share of the Central Government is at least 51% of the paid-up share capital From here, we can be clear that the Central Vigilance Commission Does not deal with the matters pertaining to the State Governments This is about the role of the Central Vigilance Commission Now, let's see the appointment procedure of the Central Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission See, the appointment of the Central Vigilance Commissioner and Vigilance Commissioners Or, as per the procedure laid down in Section 4 of the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 See, the persons to be appointed will be selected by a selection committee It is chaired by the Prime Minister And other members of the selection committee are Union Minister of Home Affairs And Leader of Opposition in the Lokshaba See, after the recommendations of the selection committee The Central Vigilance Commissioner and the Vigilance Commissioners will be appointed by The President by warrant under his or her hand and seal Once the appointment is made, both Central Vigilance Commissioner and Vigilance Commissioners Shall hold office for a term of 4 years or till they attain the age of 65 years Whichever is earlier Note that, a Vigilance Commissioner is eligible for an appointment as a Central Vigilance Commissioner However, the aggregate term of office in both posts shall not be more than 4 years However, a Central Vigilance Commissioner is ineligible for reappointment This provision is there mainly to ensure the service of the Central Vigilance Commissioner without fear or favor Now, I hope this discussion helped you revise the important points regarding Central Vigilance Commission And that's all regarding this discussion In this discussion, we saw about Central Vigilance Commission Then we saw about the role played by Central Vigilance Commission And we saw about Central Vigilance Commissioners' jurisdiction And finally, we saw about the appointment procedure of Central Vigilance Commissioner and the Vigilance Commissioners Now, with these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion Now, see this article here The news is that a 22-year-old woman in the state of Karnataka was pushed into the banned Dev Dasi system According to the policemen, the woman had been ceremoniously married off to a deity at Shri Huligamma temple See, the temple is located in Huligi village which is in the Koppel district of Karnataka The police arrested the miscreants who pushed the girl into Dev Dasi system And the miscreants are arrested under the provisions of Karnataka Dev Dasi's Prohibition of Dedication Act 1982 And this is the crux of the news article given here Now, in this context, let us learn about Dev Dasi system Before getting into discussion, the syllabus relevant to this topic is given here You can go through it Now, first of all, who is a Dev Dasi? See, in India, a Dev Dasi was a female artist who was dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life The dedication took place in a ceremony which was somewhat similar to a marriage ceremony In addition to taking care of the temple and performing rituals, these women also learned and practiced classical Indian artistic traditions Such as Balanatyam, Ohini Atam, Kuchupudi and Odishi During festivals and other important days, these Dev Dasi performed dance performance within the premises of temples See, they are all called as Dev Dasi's and such system is called Dev Dasi's system Now, let us see about the origin of this Dev Dasi system See, Dev Dasi system originated in the period of early medieval India See, this was also the period where temple administration in India was becoming complex Initially, Dev Dasi's who were tied to the temple were treated with utmost respect and reverence In earlier centuries of this practice, Dev Dasi's were so esteemed that even some kings dedicated their daughters to temples But after a certain period, their status was reduced to the tough, sacred concubines Here, concubine refers to a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wife See, Dev Dasi's were patronized by Brahmins and other landed class members This ultimately led to the reduction in their social status Here note one important fact, Dev Dasi's system was more pronounced in southern part of India than the northern parts This is all about the origin and subsequent period of development of Dev Dasi's system in India Now, moving on to see the reasons why Dev Dasi's system is still prevalent in India The foremost reason is poverty See, the families of girl children who are in extreme poverty in rural parts of southern India Tend to donate their girl children to the temple Thereby, they grow up to become Dev Dasi's Then, another reason for prevalence of Dev Dasi's system still today is the cultural factor For instance, in Karnataka, there is a traditional belief that when there is a famine, drought or an epidemic Then to appease gods and goddess, a girl is dedicated to the local goddess Huligamma In the case of Andhra Pradesh, it is said that he will over the family or the village can be avoided by Dedicating a girl in the family to the temple deity See, these are all two main reasons why Dev Dasi's system is still prevalent in some parts of southern India Now, coming to the ways in which Dev Dasi's systems can be eradicated from India See, various laws have been enacted in the past to stop the malpractice of Dev Dasi's system Some of the laws which prohibits the practice of Dev Dasi's system Enacted by various states are provided here just to go through it Now, from this we can say that there are laws already in place to prevent Dev Dasi's system But there is no stricter enforcement of these laws And to end this problem, police forces should identify the areas where Dev Dasi's system was prevalent in earlier eras It should be followed with constant vigil on these identified areas And any incident reported should be investigated thoroughly Other than this, awareness campaign which is showing the ill effects of Dev Dasi's system Should be organized in the villages where there is prevalence of Dev Dasi's system Here, NGO can be roped into help government officials to put an end to this in human practice See, these are all some of the ways in which Dev Dasi's system can be eradicated from India And that's all regarding this discussion In this discussion we learned about what is Dev Dasi's system Then why this system is still prevalent in India And finally about the ways in which Dev Dasi's system can be eradicated from India Now, with these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion Now, look at this news article here It says that the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh has requested the prime minister to grant Special category status to the state of Andhra Pradesh So, in this context, you should know about the special category states And what are all the benefits that a state would get If it is declared as a special category state Firstly, let's start with special category status See, the constitution does not have any provision for categorization of any state As a special category status state So, where did this come from? See, the concept was first introduced in 1969 In 1969, the 5th finance commission sought to provide certain disadvantaged states With preferential treatment in the form of central assistance and tax breaks And it was based on the Gadgil formula And 11 states namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tirupura and Uttarakhand Were granted special category status This is a brief about special category status Now, we will see the parameters for special category status See, there were 5 parameters And they are firstly, hilly terrain Then secondly, low population density And our sizable share of tribal population Thirdly, strategic location along borders with neighboring countries Fourthly, economic and infrastructure back on us And finally, non-viable nature of state finances See, based on these 5 parameters only, the special category status was granted See, this status was granted in the past by the National Development Council And it was later done by the central government Then following the recommendation of 14th Finance Commission The special category status ceased to exist Thereafter, no new special category status has been granted to any state However, in 2014, the central government has agreed to give a special assistance To the state of Andhra Pradesh Based on the provisions of Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014 And this is to make up for the additional central share The state might have received during 2015-16 to 2019-20 Here, the funding of centrally sponsored schemes Would have been shared at the ratio of 90 to 10 Between the center and the state of Andhra Pradesh Here, you should also know about the benefits to states with special category status See, if a state is placed under the special category The center pays 90% of the funds required in a centrally sponsored scheme To special category status states We know that normally 60% or 70% is provided in case of other states And the remaining funds are provided by the state governments But in case of special category status states The center pays 90% of the funds And the rest 10% alone will be provided by the state government This is the first benefit Then the second benefit is that Significant concessions are provided to these states in excise and customs duties Income tax and corporate tax See, these are all some of the benefits granted to special category status states And that's all regarding this news article See, in this discussion we saw about what is special category status Then what are all the states placed under special category status Then we saw about 5 parameters Based on which special category status is granted And finally we saw some of the benefits to the states with special category status Now with these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion See this article here, it says that The Maharashtra Assembly passed the Lok Ayukta Bill 2022 And it is said that this bill will bring the chief minister and the council of ministers Under the ambit of anti-corruption ombudsman And this is the crux of the news article given here Now in this context, let us understand about Lok Ayukta again See, it will be revision for you Know that it is the Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta Act 2013 That provided for the establishment of Lok Ayukta But many states had already passed the laws before the 2013 act For creating the institution of ombudsman called Lok Ayukta We all know what is basis behind the creation of institutions like Lok Ayukta Right, the main objective of Lok Ayukta system in a state Is to make investigation of grievances, allegations against public servants The allegations mainly include corruption charges, maladministration, etc The major thing about the Lok Ayukta is that The Lok Ayukta structure does not follow a consistent pattern across all the states See, some states have established both the Lok Ayukta and Upa Lok Ayukta While some states only have Lok Ayukta So, the establishment pattern is not consistent throughout the states Now coming to the appointment of members of Lok Ayukta See, the members are appointed by the governor of the respective state And while doing so, the governor should consult with the chief justice of the state high court And the leader of opposition in the state legislative assembly In most states, the term of office is fixed for a duration of 5 years or 65 years of age Whichever is earlier And they are not eligible for reappointment for a second time So here, the term is also not same for all the states And it varies state to state Now coming to the powers of Lok Ayukta Here also, there is no uniformity regarding the jurisdiction of Lok Ayukta in all states The jurisdiction varies in relation to the inclusion of Chief Minister, Ministers, Higher civil servants Members of state legislatures And authorities of local bodies, corporations, companies and societies In most states, the Lok Ayukta can initiate investigations Based on a complaint received from the citizens Against unfair action or an Suyomoto However, in UP, Himachal and Assam The Lok Ayukta does not enjoy the power to start investigations on Suyomoto In some states, it considers cases of grievances as well as allegations But in other states, it is confined to investigation of allegations alone and not the grievances Like I said, the powers differ in each states Finally, know that the Lok Ayukta presents a report annually to the governor And the governor places this report along with an explanatory memorandum before the state legislature Here note that the recommendations made by the Lok Ayukta are only advisory and not binding on the state government And that's all regarding this discussion In this discussion, we saw about the Lok Ayukta Then its objective Then we saw about the appointment of members And finally, we saw about the powers of the Lok Ayukta And note one point here The powers and composition and the appointment varies state to state And they are not uniform in all the states Now with these key points in mind, let's move on to the next news article discussion Now look at this news article here It says that the Tamil Nadu government has notified The Tamil Nadu Energy Conservation Building Code rules 2022 The Tamil Nadu government also says that the buildings which do not utilize any energy or fossil fuel are exempted from the rules And this is the background of the news article given here Now we will try to understand what is energy conservation building code See the energy conservation building code is basically a set of standards for minimum energy performance for commercial buildings Here the energy performance standards include Building envelope, then heating ventilation and air conditioning, then lighting, then service water heating and electric power and distribution Now you may wonder how we could conserve energy by building envelope See building envelope is nothing but building the wall and roof of the building See the code suggests measures like use of insulation materials that reduces heat absorption You have to know that energy could be easily and effortlessly saved If the building is constructed keeping that in mind Let me give you an example If the building is properly ventilated for the sunlight to come in then there would be lesser lighting requirement during day So this is how the building code would influence the energy conservation Now with this understanding we will learn more on the energy conservation building code See energy conservation building code was launched by ministry of power in may 2007 See this is a first step towards promoting energy efficiency in the building sector The ministry of power is implementing energy conservation building code in the states of india in consultation with bureau of energy efficiency Here know that bureau of energy efficiency is functioning under ministry of power See the energy conservation building code was developed under the guidelines of bureau of energy efficiency With significant inputs from various other stakeholders such as practicing architects, then consultants, educational institutions and other government organizations Now the purpose of energy conservation building code is to provide Minimum requirements for energy efficiency design and construction of buildings and their systems without compromising on the comfort of occupants The code also provides present as well as futuristic Advancements in building technology to cut down building energy consumption and promote low carbon growth See now there are many conservation options coming in the market So the code acknowledges these emerging technologies as well The code sets clear criteria for builders designers and architects to integrate renewable energy sources in the building designs In short the energy conservation building code aims to achieve energy neutrality in commercial buildings So what should you do to become energy conservation building code compliant? See to be energy conservation building code compliant Your building should be able to demonstrate minimum energy saving of 25 percentage Know that there are also categories to which you can move in if you are extra compliant What I mean is energy savings of 35 percentage and 50 percentage will enable the buildings to achieve higher grades like Energy conservation building code plus or super energy conservation building code status respectively That's all regarding this news article discussion. This discussion we saw about energy conservation building code Then about energy performance standards And finally about the purpose of energy conservation building code Now with these key points in mind Let's move on to the next part of the news article discussion that is to discuss preliminary practice questions Now look at this first question. This question is regarding Neil Greethar Let's take up the first statement Neil Greethar is placed under endangered category in the IUCN red list See this statement is correct as we saw in the discussion It is placed under endangered category in the IUCN red list. So statement one is correct Now coming to the second statement It comes under schedule 2 of wildlife protection act 1972 This statement is incorrect because Neil Greethar is placed under schedule 1 of the wildlife production act And not schedule 2. So statement 2 is incorrect Now coming to the third statement It is the state animal of Kerala See this statement is also wrong because it is a state animal of Tamil Nadu Now the question is asking for correct statement Here statement one alone is correct. So the correct answer is option a one only Moving on let's take up the second question Consider the following statements regarding the Lokpal and Lokakutaks Act 2013 Look at this first statement Member of parliament and members of any legislature of state can be members of Lokpal See this statement is incorrect because members of parliament and members of any legislature of state cannot be member of Lokpal See I am going to list out the persons who all cannot be members or chairperson of Lokpal Make note of it See it include a member of parliament or a member of legislature of any state or union directory Then a person convicted of any offense involving moral aptitude Then a person of less than 45 years of age on the rate of assuming office as a chairperson or member as the case may be Then fourthly a member of any panjayat or municipality and fifthly a person who has been removed or dismissed from the service of a union or a state See these five categories of members are cannot be appointed as members or chairperson of the Lokpal Now look at the second statement Members of panjayat and municipality cannot be members of Lokpal As we discussed now this statement is correct Members of panjayat and municipality cannot be members of Lokpal Now the question is asking for correct statement. Here statement 2 is alone correct So the correct answer for the question is option b2 only Moving on let's take up the third question Which of the following were used as parameters to declare a state as a special category state? First statement hilly terrain second statement high population density Third statement strategic location along borders with neighboring countries Fourth statement economic and infrastructure back winners and fifth statement income distance See as we discussed second and fifth statement is incorrect because High population density is not a parameter to declare a state as special category state Also the income distance was not taken into account to declare a state as special category state So first third and fourth statement alone is correct Here the question is asking us to choose the correct option So the correct answer for the question is option a one three and four only Moving on let's take up the final question Here the question is regarding Bureau of energy efficiency Now look at this first statement It was established in accordance with energy conservation act 2001 See this statement is correct The Bureau of energy efficiency was established by the central government In accordance with energy conservation act 2001 So statement one is correct Now coming to the second statement it functions under the ministry of power See this statement is also correct Bureau of energy efficiency is functioning under the ministry of power So both statements are correct Here the question is asking for correct statements So the answer for the question is option c both one and two And this is the quiz question for you today I will pose this quiz question in a community section try to answer it And displayed here are the main questions for your practice Go through the questions write your answers and post it in the comment section With this we came to the end of the video If you like our analysis, please like comment and share And don't forget to subscribe to Shankar Ayes's Academy YouTube channel Thank you for listening


An NFL team's equipment department is often the heart and soul of the ball club that nobody really knows about. So for tonight's epic western genuine Titan, our Amy Wells introduces you to the man who's the head of the Titans equipment department. When you see the Titans practicing, you see him. When the Titans are warming up before the game, you see him. You've seen him with the quarterbacks and even at the NFL draft and you've always wondered, who is that guy? Well, most likely that guy is Joey Barranco, the team's head equipment manager. Joey has been with the Titans since 2000. Actually, he interned with the team during 1999 training camp while he was still a student at UAB. The organization hired him full-time the following Working under a franchise fixture in Paul Haas, Nazca, Joey quickly became a staffer known for his hustle, his reliability, and his desire to always take care of everyone. Joey Barranco was number nine's number one guy, whether it was for early throwing and pregame warm-ups, adjustments, or anything else that McNair needed. There's was a friendship that everyone around the Titans knew was special and people around the team certainly took notice. If Joey was a big deal to Steve McNair, it helped to get him noticed by everyone else. To this day, if you watch the Titans practice or warm up, Joey Barranco is with the Tennessee quarterbacks. He has a plan, his guys are where they're supposed to be, and they're just dealing with the quarterbacks. He has a great snap. He knows exactly what we're trying to accomplish and does a great job of setting us up in order to do it with all of our drills, our individual drills, setting the bags up, just really selflessly serving us in a way that he couldn't ask for more. So really thankful for Joey and everything that he gives to us. And then we're going to start our pregame routine, do Pat and Go, and all that. What about the pregame treats you're going to give me? Well, that comes later. In 2000, Joey was the young guy. Today, 20 years later, he's a wily veteran that coaches and other staff can count on for basically everything. Well, personally, it means a lot. He was one of the first people that I met here when I got the job. And, you know, he's usually always right next to me spotting the football. And he does a fantastic job. And now he's in charge. After the 2020 season, Joey was put over the equipment staff and leads a group of people whose dedication never wavers. Each person seems to do the work of two to three people because they love the job and they love the Tennessee Tigers. Haas Noska taught that to Joey Barranco and Joey is passing it on to the new generation. He's just a good dude to be around. He works extremely hard. He takes his role very seriously. He's very locked in during practice. We sit there and we go from one team to the next. He reminds you a lot of, hey, you guys have two more plays and you're back up and all this. He's just a true pros pro. And I think the times are extremely lucky to have him. It's a thankless job. I mean, they do so much behind the scenes, making sure we have the right equipment. I'm always having requests for different cleats and socks.  We're going back. He's always taking care of us. So, Joey's been a mainstay here in this Titans organization. He's in the business of taking care of the players and making sure that they have what they need from an equipment standpoint, from a practice operation standpoint, then it's usually ready to go, prepared. Joey Barranco is certainly a genuine Titan. We're lucky here. We work with a lot of special people, a lot of talented and dedicated people. No one more so than Joey Barranco. No, Joey's awesome. Such a great addition to the staff. I'm fortunate that he was here when I got here.  He just knows all of that information. He takes care of the guys. It was said several times in that video about how selfless Joey was and about putting the team first. And that certainly summed up Joey.


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Business is the most popular subject for international students in the United States. At last count, 22 percent of foreign students at American colleges and universities were studying business and management. The Institute of International Education in New York says engineering was the second most popular field. Thomas Kosei is a professor of marketing and business at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He says international students who want to study business need to have good English skills. At the same time, native English speakers who work with foreign companies may need to learn some new communication skills themselves. This is because the world has more non-native speakers of English than native speakers. At the University of Richmond, teams of graduate students work with companies seeking to enter the American market. The students learn about writing market entry studies. The reports are written in English. But Professor Kosei tells his students to consider who will read them. He said his students have to write the report so that it can be understood by someone who is an English speaker, but not a native English speaker. For example, he tells his students to avoid jargon and other specialized terms that people might not know in their own language. This can be good advice even when writing for other native speakers. But effective communication involves more than just words. Kay Westerfield is director of the International Business Communication Program at the University of Oregon. She says you must have the language skills as well as cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence means the need to consider local behaviors in everything from simple handshakes to speaking to large groups. Still, Kay Westerfield says the ability of foreign workers to speak English is becoming more important to companies looking to off-source operations to other countries. Also, she says English skills often provide a competitive edge for business students when they seek jobs. She said as one business student in West Africa put it, English is a lifeline. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. We offer live English lessons Monday through Friday at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. You can also read and listen to our programs and find activities for English learners at voaspecialenglish.com. And we have podcasts on iTunes.


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So let's start with Wendell Potter, who after a 20-year career as head of communications for Cigna, decided he wanted to defrock the health insurance agency of America and wrote a terrific book, Deadly Spin, An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Healthcare and Deceiving Americans. So Wendell, let's start with you. Thank you, Susan, very much. I appreciate the introduction and I appreciate the invitation to be here. I was in the insurance industry for 20 years, but I didn't start out that way. I didn't start out on the dark side. I didn't always toil there. In fact, I started out as a newspaper reporter back in the dark ages. I was a reporter right out of college for a paper in Memphis and began to cover politics and eventually wound up covering Congress in the White House in Washington. During those first years, there was certainly not only was there no internet, but there were not even any select typewriters back in 1973. I wrote my first stories on, at least in most newsrooms, I wrote my stories on a royal typewriter and pasted them together with a glue pot. When I was out covering a story, I often would phone the man or would fax the man. I would use one of those rotary fax machines. But I was eventually enticed into the world of public relations and as Susan said, I spent two decades as head of corporate public relations for Humana first and then for Cygnet. And during that time, I saw sea changes in both the insurance industry and the media. When I went to work for Humana in 1989, it was mostly known at that time as a hospital company. In fact, I was hired to be the PR guy for the hospital division of the company. When I joined Cygnet four years later, its largest division at the time was the property and casualty business. Like Aetna, MetLife, Prudential and Travelers, it was a multi-line insurance company, which was prevalent during the time and that's where many of us got our health insurance if we didn't get it from a non-profit health insurance plan like a Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan. But the shareholders of all these companies eventually grew intolerant of those companies' business models. And as a result, Humana had to sell its hospitals and focus exclusively on managed care because that's where they felt the money was. And the big multi-line insurance companies had to share a lot of their divisions as well to focus on one or two lines of business. Cygnet decided to focus on health care and the other big multi-lines went elsewhere. By the time I left the industry four years ago, it bore little resemblance to the industry that I joined back in 1989. Similarly, the media world was entirely different two decades ago as you all know. The internet had not yet made the traditional media less relevant than it is today. As a PR guy, reporters and editors were still the gatekeepers back then for the flow of information. When I wrote a press release, for example, I had to persuade reporters to use it. I never expected them to print it verbatim but I expected them, I hoped that they would use it but it was their decision as to whether or not they would use what I was trying to sell. And when I wanted to place an op-ed in the newspaper, I would have to deal with an editor. And I had to deal with many skeptical reporters on a daily basis. There were a lot more reporters back then than there are now. To get my messages to the public, I had to get them through the media's filter at that time. By the time I left my job in 2008, the balance of power had shifted entirely because there were fewer reporters and because I no longer needed them to disseminate my messages, my spend if you will, the balance of power had shifted to my favor and to my company's favor. I no longer even had to talk to reporters. I often would still get calls from reporters or emails from reporters but instead of getting on the phone or meeting a reporter in person and engaging in any kind of dialogue, I was able simply to craft a statement or a message in some way, get it vetted throughout the company, including the company's lawyers and email it back to the reporters. So I was essentially in charge of that relationship in ways that I hadn't been previously. I was able to determine what I wanted to say and give them precisely what I wanted to say and if they didn't want it, that was too bad. So I was able in that way to disseminate information and get the messages to them without having running the risk of being asked a difficult question or what we call rude questions. Today because of the digital media, big companies are able to get their propaganda directly to their target audiences as I was able to do. They can and they do publish and disseminate their own press releases and their own studies and their own position papers. All of this means that the consumer is often, if not most of the time, at a big disadvantage. It's much easier for the dark side to spread misinformation and lies, fear, uncertainty and doubt and just a couple of examples of that in recent years was the dissemination of the lie that the Affordable Care Act would establish death panels and that it would represent a government takeover of the healthcare system. Prior to the digital era, it would have been much more difficult for the advocates of the status quo, for the insurance industry to get that kind of fear, that kind of misleading information out into the public domain to the point that most polls show that Americans are doubtful if not opposed to the Affordable Care Act and are completely unaware of the fact apparently that a lot of what is in the law is to their benefit. So using the digital media, it has become a much more powerful means for the special interest to manipulate public opinion to influence public policy and to get people to vote against their own self-interest. This is why I wrote the book Deadly Spin to take people behind the scenes to show how the big corporations and the special interests are now able to do just that, to manipulate the public in ways that they've never been able to do before to influence public policy and to get people to vote against their own self-interest. When there is sufficient motivation, when there is a ground swell of outrage, consumer advocates can force change and we're seeing some evidence of that. Just look at what happened to Verizon and Bank of America and Netflix when they were instituting new fees or a new change in how they charge their customers. They headed back down because of backlash from the public, mostly via digital media. More recently, look what happened to the Coleman Foundation and to Rush Limbaugh, again, largely because of the digital media. They've had to apologize and Rush Limbaugh is losing advertisers and the Coleman Foundation is losing an enormous amount of support and goodwill. I believe that the fact-checkers that are emerging, they've always been around, but they're playing a more visible role in getting, I think, better organized, better equipped to set their records straight. Politifact chose Deadly Spin, excuse me, it chose the death panels and the government take over healthcare as the two lives of the year, the lives of the year in 2009 and 2010. I think most of those, by the way, are coming from traditional media, from the Tampa Bay Times and the Washington Post and from the New York Times and other traditional media. Usually though, this dissemination is via their online outlets and I think that we can see more and more of that, hopefully, emerging in the years to come. I'll end with that. I think, as you all can tell, that the digital era is one that can, if we're not very careful, continue this imbalance of power. It's not just corporate profits that are at stake, but actually our way of life and our form of government. Thank you very much for what you're doing and for this conference and for what you can come up with. Thank you. Thank you.


KL says Russell Band Eagle Jesus 2.0. He certainly has the look.   He's trying to be different. He's trying to be special. But what exactly is he wearing? What is up with that?  So that is just weird. And that's okay. He's an original. And he can wear what he wants to wear. But I think it's a little weird. Oh, Russell Band Eagle did a remake of Arthur. I think I liked the original Arthur with that Vimoire. If I remember right, he plays a drunk. I can't remember what happens in the movie. Oh, it's a long time ago. But yeah, I liked the original. I don't know that I've seen the remake. All right. All right, let's watch this. This is about billionaires going to space. This is about billionaires more broadly. He has multiple, as I said, he has multiple videos about billionaires. He generally dislikes them. And I've, you know, you know, my defensive billionaires, I'll repeat some of it, but we will go through some of this material and try to understand ways coming from maybe try to understand, is there anything to what he's saying? And what is the implication? Whoops. I guess I have to unmute him first. Let's unmute him. All right. Here we go. What's so brand? Their power is growing in the pandemic. They own the present. Are they about to colonize even our future? Let's have a look. The net worth of American billionaires has soared by a trillion dollars since March, according to a new report. I believe so powerfully in the ability of entrepreneurial capitalism and free markets to solve so many of the world's problems. Not all of them. So let's start with this trillion dollar increase in wealth, a billion of billionaires. I mean, I don't know the number. I don't know, you know, whether it counts the market declines of the last few days. But generally, yeah, I mean, they did very well during the pandemic, particularly, particularly, you would say that those, those billionaires who are tech entrepreneurs, or those billionaires who are heavily invested in technology stocks, did phenomenally well. I want to ask ourselves two questions. One is, why did technology stocks do well during COVID? What's the reason? Well, I'd say the main reason is that they provided us with unbelievable values during COVID. That is, even 20 years ago, COVID would have been dramatically worse in terms of its impact on our day-to-day lives, given lockdowns and everything else, without Amazon, without Zoom, without Netflix, without Google, without YouTube, without Apple, whether it's an Apple TV, or whether it's your iPhone, or with the iPad, or whether it's your laptop, or whether it's the apps. Technology stocks went up by a trillion, or many of these billionaires added a trillion dollars to their worth, to their net worth, to a large extent, because the companies that they run, the companies that they own, are changed our lives by, well, more than a trillion dollars worth, just during the pandemic. If you think about, again, what life would have been like without these, and the fact that all of this is accessible, not just to us relatively rich Americans, but is available to everybody in the world, is available to every American, almost every American uses these products, and their lives are significantly better for it. So, they made a trillion dollars because they added value, and Jeff Bezos is absolutely right. Whatever problems we have, and we're clearly going to get to disagree with Russell Brandt on what those problems are, whatever problems we have, the solution is going to come from the ingenuity, from the thinking, from the entrepreneurial activity of entrepreneurs. There's nowhere else. You're going to solve any problem, even the kind of little bit of crazy problems that I think the left thinks we have. So, let's keep listening to Russell. Not all of them, but so many of them. Of course, people talk about, you know, progress, they'll point to medieval France or something, and like someone coughing up a lump of plague in a public square. Of course, entrepreneurial capitalism has provided many things, but I think really, Russell? I mean, you don't have to go to the Middle Ages, France, to see people dying of disease, dying of poverty, dying of hunger, just being poor, just not having anything, or having very little. You can travel to any, basically any non-capitalist country in the world today, and it looks like war, France, of 300 years ago. Of course, I don't know why you're using France and not England, but anyway, volume is too high. Is it too high? Is my volume too high, or is Russell Brand volume too high? I can adjust either one. You guys need to tell me which one is too high. Here's, I guess, the same YouTube. Okay, I'm going to change the volume, and hopefully that'll be lower. Thank you, thanks for letting me know. It's hard for me to keep track of it here. Everywhere where capitalism is tried, to the extent that it is tried, and it's never been tried perfectly, completely, purely, but to the extent that it is tried, in other words, the extent that we respect rights, to the extent that we have free markets, the extent that we allow for property rights, to the extent that we have institutions to protect property rights, the extent that we allow entrepreneurs to keep the product of their success, of their production, to that extent you have wealth in society in which even poor people don't live like average people in places that haven't tried even a little bit of capitalism. So let's not, let's not necessarily have to go to 300 years ago in France, but of course it is true that 300 years ago 95% of all the world population, all the world population, not just in rural France, life expectancy was around 30 or 39 in the best countries, but under 30 in the worst, that most people lived, no, sorry, 90 plus percent of people lived in $2 a day or less. That was everybody's life, not some particularly poor peasant in the middle of nowhere that Russell Brand had to pick out. That was life, and that was life not just 300 years ago, but that was life pretty much throughout human history. So instead of being curious as every human being on this planet should be, but what changed? What happened? How do we get from 300 years ago to today where Russell Brand can sit in wearing ridiculous clothes but with a nice clip on microphone and some high quality digital cameras and broadcast on a platform called YouTube from the comfortest home to the comfort of my home? How do we get from there to here? That's the question people should be asking. That is the most interesting, important question one can ask if one's interested in progress and in human success and history, no period in human history is more interesting, more important than that period where we transitioned from life expectancy of in the 30s and poverty of $2 a day and everything else, that transition from that to where we are today. That period, the enlightenment into the 19th century, that's the most exciting period in all of human history. Nobody seems to care. Nobody seems to care. So, yes Russell, we use that example because capitalism is this unbelievable success. Now he's going to tell us what capitalism's failures are and of course the failure is always the same. There's only one. They always raise it. They have to raise it in a sense. They have to create the problem so that they have something to attack capitalism with because it's so successful, even in improving a lot of the poor, that they have to come up with something new, something new in order to go after capitalism. And this has been the thing that the left has chosen to go after capitalism for the last 40, 50 years. It's always the same thing. Sometimes that we deify it because we don't look at the cost because sometimes the costs are harder to evaluate. So what are the costs guys? What are the costs? Inequality? No. No, because I mean he'll say inequality will get to that but inequality is not the main cost because he realizes that that's a trap. Everybody's better off. Yes, the gap might have increased but everybody's better off. So it can be inequality. So what is it? Billionaires have carbon footprints that are thousands of times. Yeah, it's carbon footprint. It's carbon footprint. The cost is climate change. That's the cost. Higher than those of average Americans. They own yachts, planes, multiple mansions, all of which contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Here's an interest. By the way, that can't be true. That billionaires have thousands, x, thousand times a greater carbon footprint than ordinary people. It's just not true. It's impossible. Think about it. And this relates to another aspect of inequality that I think is important to know in the modern world. What determines your carbon footprint? I mean the whole concept is disgusting but what determines your carbon footprint? Well basically what you eat because a lot of carbon is emitted by the cow's weed. It's the electricity used in your home. The fuel you use to fuel your car. The fuel the airplane uses when you fly. Yeah, the fuel you have on your yacht or whatever. So let's think about the difference in consumption of those kind of things and generally by the way consumption. Every time you buy something made of plastic, every time you buy anything, there's some carbon footprint of that product that you bought. But how much different is your consumption from a billionaire's consumption? I mean breathing. Yes, somebody, I mean it's important to note that breathing of course increases your carbon footprint. The less you breathe, the less carbon you emit. You should try not breathing for a while. But what's the difference? I mean the major difference is, I mean we all drive cars. Billionaires probably drive electric cars so they probably have a smaller carbon footprint. We all have homes. Their homes are bigger but not thousands of times bigger. I mean maybe Broguesa's home is 10,000 square feet or maybe 20,000 square feet. But mine is like four. So it's five times bigger if that, right? Yeah, it's yacht. I don't have a yacht. But how often does he go on the yacht? How often is the yacht engine really running? I don't think that's thousands. What else? The private plane. Now I fly a lot. My guess is I fly more than some billionaires. Now it's true. You can divide my carbon footprint across 300 people on the plane with me. But I also fly more, probably not 300 times more. Okay, so the billionaires carbon footprint from flying is probably higher than even mine, even though I fly so much. But okay, it's not thousands of times more. There's no way that would be true. So where is it? They eat more hamburgers? I know Bill Gates really likes hamburgers. Do they eat more hamburgers? Maybe, but not by thousands. And I eat meat. I don't think they eat more steaks than I do. Or lamb. So what are we talking about? I mean, whose quote is that from? This nonsensical quote? Does it say it's from the conversation? Like who? Private planes, mansions and super yards. Thousands of times? It's just not true. And this is the thing about this. That most people look at this and say, yeah, okay, yeah, that makes sense.  But no, it's just false.  But this is the thing in our culture. If you repeat the lie over and over again, if you use social media to repeat the lie over and over again, then everybody starts believing it. And it's just, yeah, well, of course, billionaires can use a carbon footprint thousands of times higher than. I mean, yeah. Marble mansions, all of which contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Here's an interesting quote from Evgeny Morozov at the office. He says, Silicon Valley is a bizarre mix of greedy catalysts and cultural markets. That is true. That is kind of bizarre. It's keen on indoctrinating their users into left-wing ideas while getting filthy rich off everyone's data. And also. Well, as if all they do is get rich off of data, right? You know, Apple doesn't make stuff. It just gets rich off of our data. Facebook gets rich off of our data, but not directly. It gets rich off of advertising to us, using our data to advertise to us. The same with Google. It's not that they're using the data for some nefarious means other than to sell us stuff, which we don't have to buy. By the way, you do have free will. You can, you can afford it. Ooh, Bill Gates house is 66,000 square feet. Okay. So if mine is 4,000, then his is, you know, 15 times my, okay, 15 times, still not thousands, still not thousands. Are they any self made female billionaires? Yes. Yes. I knew one. Her name is Darla Moore. And there are others. The Oprah, of course, Oprah is a billionaire. But there are others. I think Kali Fiorina, whether she's a billionaire or just a centimillionaire. The same with the other woman who ran for the Senate in California might be only a centimillionaire, not a billionaire, but there are a number of very wealthy. Oh, of course, the other female billionaires are the daughters of Sam Walton, the daughters of Sam Walton, the Queen of England. Yes, but she doesn't count really. But the daughters of Sam Walton, J.K. Wallins is a female billionaire. So yes, quite a few female billionaires and many of them self made. So some of them inherited like Walton and the Queen of England, but some of them self made like J.K. Wallins and some of them self made in technology. All right, so let's keep going. Further to the start of this video, US billionaire's wealth has risen by over a trillion during the pandemic. A report by Oxfam concluded that Jeff Bezosworth had climbed so much between March and September 2020 that he could have given all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus and still have been as wealthy as he was before the pandemic. A couple of things on that. Mental, every single one of 8, that's not even a few employees, 870,000 people dropping stuff off to your house in a van could have given 105 grand each and still been as they would have made no difference. Look how outraged he is. And again, notice that in the culture we live in, his outrage, everybody's going to be sympathetic to it. Nobody's going to say, no, why should he give that money away? Almost everybody's going to say, yeah, that's right. Because we're conditioned by altruism to, well, they don't have the money. He has the money. Why shouldn't he give it to them? And he's no worse off by our standards, maybe by his standards he is. I wonder, you know, what do you think? I wonder, maybe we can pose this question to Russell. If Jeff Bezos tomorrow lost all their money in the stock market because maybe the market realizes maybe there's a bubble in tech stocks. That was the other reason tech might have increased by a trillion. Maybe there's a bubble there. Maybe all the stimulus money has gone into fueling a bubble in tech stocks. I don't know. Maybe it's a possibility. I'm not giving you financial advice. It's just possible. But let's assume that that happened and Amazon stock collapses. And Jeff Bezos loses, you know, $100 billion. Do you think Russell would advocate for the employees giving them any back? Do you think he'd support that? Do you think he'd support, you know, every time the stock price of Amazon goes down, that we all do it like a day of mourning, a moment of contemplation for the pain that the Silicon Valley guys, I mean, these people lose because it's all in the stock, right? It's all stock price. It's not like Jeff Bezos has a mountain of cash somewhere with $200 billion. It's all in the stock. It goes up. It goes down. Mostly it's some creating value in the company. We sell all that anyway. Up 100 land owners. Notice how altruistic this is. It only goes one way. And how, I mean, the reason somebody like Russell Bland has so many subscribers, he's entertaining, he's funny. He's very animated. He's morally outraged. He has a moral perspective, but he's conventional. He's completely and utterly conventional. We'll get to some of the, you know, if we get there, I don't know if we're going to be able to do a whole 13 minutes of his thing, but he plays off of exactly what people would expect, right? He plays off of altruism. He says something like, why didn't, and everybody goes, yeah, yeah, we agree. Absolutely. There's nothing controversial or questionable and except to me, to an out to a, except to a individualist and egoist, a capitalist. And each and still bitters. It would have made no difference. You look at the top 100 land owners in America. They now own 33 million acres. That's according to the land report 100. That's up 18% since 2008. And some of the names on this list may surprise you. Jeff Bezos is actually the 25th biggest land owner. And owner in the U S we've told you before about. So they own a lot of land. Why do they own a lot of land? Why have they increased their land ownership by so much since 2008? Anybody know anybody out there listening know what land is a hedge against? What is land? What is land a hedge against? What would you buy land if you were worried about what? Well, generally. I could wait for an answer on anybody in the chat. Anybody want to guess what you're hedging? Why you're buying land? What is it a hedge against? Well, food shortages, certainly. But, but EPPO 1875 is absolutely right as Daniel, as Mitch, as as Alan. All of us know this. I guess Russell doesn't. Might want to take out finance class Russell. It's a hedge against inflation. And as a reason why since 2008. Since 2008. A lot of people are being worried about inflation as the government prints more and more and more money. As inflation looks like it might be more possible. It's also a hedge against ultimate collapse of food shortages and farmland goes up in times like that. Of course, then there's also no will. You know, there's no nobody to buy the land from you, but it's a hedge against inflation. It's a hedge against inflation. And that's why a lot of billionaires right now are buying land. So why is this somehow nefarious? And by the way, 33, whatever million acres. I mean, how much of that of the United States is that it's still true that the federal government and state local governments own 75% of all the land Western Mississippi. 75% of all the land Western Mississippi is owned by government. 75%. And we're worried about a few billionaires buying a few ranches. Give me a break and Bill Gates is the 25th largest land owner in the United States. Who cares? Why does that even make news? Why is that relevant? Farmland ownership with billionaires notably of course Bill Gates, but also Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. He owns 420,000 acres of land, mainly in West Texas. So they own cyber. West Texas. If you ever mean a West Texas. 425,000 acres in West Texas. I wonder how many of you've ever driven through West Texas. Why would anybody own 425,000 acres in West Texas? What's he hoping for the only justification for that? I mean, the two possibilities. Only two possibilities, far as I can tell. One is that he plans to use that. I mean, West Texas is desert. It's just desert. There's nothing there. Nothing except oil. So one possibility is he's bought it in order to get oil rights. I don't think there's gold. But the other possibility is that it would make a great place to launch rockets from. So it could very well be the place in which he's going to build a launch site for his rockets. Who knows? I don't know. But there's nothing you can grow in West Texas. It's not farmland. It's oil. It might be sand for fracking. There are a bunch of things that West Texas have that are not pretty, not typical what you would invest in. But why does anybody care? Why does anybody care? Yeah, it drives the small farmer crazy because they bid up the price of land to where they can't expand. Yeah, so, but what's alternative to expanding for the small farmer? They can sell and make a fortune. And indeed a lot of farmers have sold at prices they could have never imagined they would get. So two sides of this. All right, let's keep going. Base, they own the land that we stand upon now. No, they don't. You don't stand upon land in West Texas. And my guess is you own your own place in London. It's cost a fortune, by the way, because London is one of the most expensive cities in the world. But no, they don't own the land in which we stand on. Space itself, the final frontier is about to become just another item in their portfolio. It is potentially the next giant leap in private space travel. SpaceX has announced it's sending a Japanese billionaire up around the moon. I hope they've told him first, we're sending a Japanese billionaire out around the moon. What's going on? I'm trying to have my breakfast. Yusaku Mayazawa, his pocket's deep enough, deep as the moon is high above the earth. And that's what it's going to take really to get there. It's being jauntly reported, but we're living in a time of massive inequality, suffering and poverty and frustration. Not just, of course, in places like India where the farming protests are destabilizing the country, or at least challenging authority about the way that the country is organized, but in countries where it was taken for granted that we had a stable way of life. So, now the volume's too low, is it? I don't know, wonder if Freeman, you have to be explicit, volume, that mean up? Alright, we'll increase it. Alright, inequality. We're sending a billionaire up into the moon, and we've got inequality right here on earth. In India, the people who are poor, lower is good. Man, Russell Brand is that loud. How is this just, how is it just to send a billionaire around the moon while people are starving? Well, what in the end prevents people from starving? How do we take a population of 8 billion people around the world and get them to where we'd like them to be, the equivalent of middle class? How does that happen? How does that happen? Well, how has it happened in the past? How did we get from 300 years ago France to today? How did we get from 30% of the world population 40 years ago living on $2 a day or less, to only 8% of the world population living on $2 a day or less today? Did any of that require taking money from billionaires and handing it out to other people? Did any of it, was any of it achieved through charity, through taxation, through redistribution of wealth? The answer is no. What ever success we have had in the world in eradicating extreme poverty, it was caused by jobs, entrepreneurship, by freeing up economies, by allowing and defining private property, by unleashing the capitalist forces. And is it just the capitalist forces, I don't know, informing or no, it's pushing the envelope of human progress. It's advancing into the future. That that creates jobs. Sending this guy around the moon, which SpaceX is committed to doing, is going to require massive amounts of work from probably hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people. From the mining of raw materials, to the generation of jet fuel, to the production of the particular materials that you need in order to create the rocket, to chip manufacturers around the world, most of them are not in America, to software writing, to a wide variety of people who are going to get employed by this one rocket that is going to take the sky around the moon. And of course, all those people you might say, well, they're the hire earner, but those hire earners are now making more money. And once they make more money, what can they do with their money?  So by sending somebody to Mars, you're actually helping raise people out of poverty. Indeed, you're actually engaging in the activity, the only activity that raises people out of poverty. And my guess is there was somebody, some Russell Brand of his time, who in the early part of the 20th century was going, why is this Ford guy building this automobile thing? I mean, horse and buggy are good enough. Why do we need automobiles? And he's going to cause unemployment in those buggy factories. And what about the poor? I mean, Henry Ford is rich enough. What does he need another car for? Why can't he just help all those poor people in India? Oh, by the way, we're poorer back then than they are today, partially because India has adopted a little bit of free markets, right? So, you know, one says Russell has no real life experience. Maybe that's true, but this is not his lack of life experience, because this is just him buying in to an economic explanation of the world from a moral perspective on the world that is indeed detached from reality, but not because of a lack of experience, but because it is a philosophy, an ideology that is detached from reality. And then of course, what about all the new technological innovation that SpaceX is going to have to create, produce, that is then going to be used in all kinds of other areas, which is create all other new industries, and then new industries being created every day. I just read about flying cars, flying taxis.  Big investment just made by a SPAC. We won't get into what a SPAC is, but anyway. What do you gain by putting down the billion in, by putting down his ability to fly? It's not like he's burning his money, even though he has a right to do it. That money is being paid to SpaceX, which is paying suppliers and engineers and people. It's not like the money is gone. Indeed, it's circulating in the economy for productive activities. Productive activities that are pushing our knowledge, pushing our technology, pushing our productive capacity further into the future, making us all richer, all of us. Well, those of us who want to be part of a productive economy. There's poverty, doubt and uncertainty. So I suppose I can't share in the kind of journey. Oh, there's a billion air being flown around the moon. You know, we still continue to be captivated by space. Look at who else is out there. We have Virgin Galactic by Richard Branson. We also have Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos from Amazon fame. So this is really heating up. This is interesting. What's amazing to me is that here we go have billionaires who have created so much wealth for themselves that they can now, if you will, indulge in a hobby that is going to propel man into the stars. If we build a colony on Mars, it's going to be because of Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. It won't be because of politicians. And these are the same guys, the same capitalist system that is accused constantly of being short term. And yet here they are building businesses that won't really generate significant profits for decades, that won't achieve their goal. If I think Bezos, it's creating colony on the moon for Musk, it's going to Mars for decades. They won't achieve their goal for decades. This is long term thinking. This is individuals moving mankind forward into the final frontier. You know, I think it's a beautiful thing. A beautiful thing, not Richard Branson. Not in the age we live in. Not in the age of envy. Not in the age of altruism.   So on one hand you have a future for a few institutions and people that is literally opening up the cosmos where elsewhere we're seeing dereliction, decimation, destruction and suffering. Really, think about it this way. Has the internet opened up the future for billions of people? Has the internet decimated them or opened up that future? Has the iPhone empowered billions of people around the world? You should ask entrepreneurs in Africa who use the iPhone not only to figure out prices and to design and monitor supply chains and monitor their crops and whatever it is that they're doing. All over the world, people are creating wealth off of this and off of Google and off of the internet and off of all this infrastructure that these billionaires dare to design and just imagine what's going to happen in the future. One of the things that SpaceX is doing and I think I talked about this on a show in the past is they're putting up thousands and thousands of satellites and these satellites are going to be in low orbit all around the world and going to be able to basically provide high speed, gigabyte internet to every human being on planet Earth who has a device connected to it. I mean, that'll change the world in deep, fundamental ways and we should condemn these guys for it? I mean, the poor in the world should celebrate SpaceX should celebrate Blue Origin It's creating a future for them. Their standard of living is likely to rise much faster than everybody else's and from a level that no human being should live at not in the modern era no human being should be living at $2 a day or less no human being should be living at $10 a day or less and if they'd only adopt freedom and give it the time and embrace Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and all these guys, you know, and Jeff Bezos they wouldn't be poor. Sure said, a majority of compelling and visible ideas about tomorrow being conceived and developed by a tiny minority of ultra-wealthy individuals and private sector companies but who ever conceives and develops ideas for tomorrow? Who pushes the envelope towards tomorrow? Now, I know people like Russell Blant would like it to be politicians doing it for the common good in the public interest but that's not what happened That's not what happens Anyway, did politicians invent the internal combustion engine? Did politicians invent flight? Did politicians facilitate any of that? It's stunning what offends them Notice what offends them What offends them is that some incredible smart, hard-working individuals are using their own money to shape the future I can't think of a more beautiful thing It's not hard to see the seductive appeal of these visions of the future beautiful digital renderings inviting the glowing and highly conceptual world such as Elon Musk and Space X's plan to build a glass-domed colony on Mars or Jeff Bezos' plan for floating space colonies on Earth Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop 1 has worked with top architects around the world to produce spectacular inspiring images of a world connected by zero emissions 670 miles per hour vacuum propelled pods Uber imagining self-flowing taxis These are beautiful things and yet they want you to be cynical about them In a sense, a continuation of the ideology that's got us into this mess in the first place that by using the mindset of capitalism and no doubt that Notice he has to apologize Every time he attacks capitalism Every time he attacks capitalism he has to say, no doubt there's some good things about it It should tell you something, Russell that you have to say that It's all about excellence, entrepreneurialism and ingenuity in many areas But in extreme, in extreme form that we're experiencing it We have extreme capitalism today guys Did you know that? We have extreme freedom They're now regulated, they're now taxed They can do whatever they want They don't have to ask for permission We have extreme capitalism in the world today Where do these people live? What conception of the world do they have? It creates a lot of problems What problems? Other than carbon footprint I haven't heard a single problem Focus to potential space colonization for me Seems like it's compounding the negligence and lack of awareness that we're currently suffering from Toiling under What I feel we all Any of those result of capitalism? Really? We're focusing on is how do we create a fairer, more just society here on Earth? See that's it, it's fairer injustice And what is fairer injustice for Russell Brand and the entire left? 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