It's been a month since Operation Alexa Flood and Palestine and the world will never be the same again. One month since the war on Gaza began, what are its implications? Hundreds of thousands of workers in Quebec and Canada walked out of their jobs on Monday in the first leg of a protest action. What are they demanding? This is the Daily Debrief. These are your stories for the day and before we go any further, if you haven't hit that subscribe button yet, please do. Today is November 7th and it's been one month since Operation Alexa Flood launched by the Palestinian resistance groups and one month since Israel's brutal war on Gaza began. It's safe to say that the region will never be the same again. The past month has been many things. It has torn the facade of Israel's claim to superiority and democracy, exposed the hollowness of every pious word spoken by the United States and above all, these 31 days have been a testimony to the resilience and resistance of the people of Palestine. This one month has also shown that regardless of what governments across the world say, the streets stand with Palestine. We go to Abdul for the analysis of the past month. Abdul has been one month since what is called Operation Alexa Flood and I think it's safe to say that much has changed in the world. It's no longer the region will never be the same again. Dramatic changes which I think will impact or resonate for decades I think. So maybe one month down the line could you sort of take us through what you analyze as the overall situation in Palestine as far as the developments are concerned? There are different ways one can look at what happened in last one month and how it has impacted the overall situation both in relation to the Palestinian question and also in relation to the global politics. When we talk about the Palestinian question, of course, the war apart from bringing destruction to the Palestinians in Gaza or kind of another set what Palestinians called the Nakba, that forced displacement of people as if Israel is helping to kind of remove a large number of Palestinians from the part of Gaza in order to in fact today Netanyahu said that he wants to maintain the control over Gaza for a few he did not say period for indefinite period after the war. It means that there is the Palestinians as far as the Palestinians in Gaza in Gaza is concerned of course they are facing renewed attack and there is full displacement and so on and so forth destruction. The humanitarian situation has gone back to worse. All those are on one point the material losses and the loss of the people life. Apart from that when we analyze it in the political context we also see that this war has also kind of brought the issue of Palestine back into the global politics. The kind of popular support the Palestinians issue has got all across the world. The kind of mobilization we have seen is very much unprecedented in the sense that after 2003 this is the largest popular mobilization on the streets all across the world. And this shows that at least you can say the unintended consequences from the Israeli perspective is the question of Palestine is no more kind of secondary subject to be discussed and people are trying to put it on the main course so that is one when it comes to the Palestinian issue. As in terms of the global politics of course this has exposed the war in Palestine the war in Gaza has exposed the imperialist project which Israel is and how kind of the Hippocratic the global politics pursued by the superpowers like us has been how that the talks of human life is empty. How they have been kind of reluctant to even implement the basic principles which they claim to champion on when it comes to Palestine people of Palestine the children of Palestine dying in hundreds every few hours. So yes of course there are there is a negative side the number of people have died the number of children in Palestine have died it has created an unprecedented humanitarian situation on the ground. But also it has kind of kind of reenergized the anti imperialist feelings in the large part of the world and kind of also brought the issue of Palestine back into the focus. So these are two ways of looking at how the war in Palestine this war in Palestine has impacted the global politics in last one month. It's an interesting point that you mentioned because I think like we talked about in earlier episodes this this the nature of Israel's brutal attack has thrown into sharp focus. You know where whereas earlier people could restrict themselves to statements or even in some cases pretend not to see or make very ambivalent statements now that is becoming increasingly untenable. And even for the United States in fact for all their attempts but let's maybe take a look at some more detail at the US approach itself because that has been very central to this whole question. And I think it's been quite revealing to see the extent to which the United States has been you know it is always backed Israel for decades of course. But the extent to which the United States is playing you know a very unfortunate brand of politics we know for instance that they even voted against the mention of a humanitarian ceasefire and insist on you know changing the language. So how do you see US politics you know its role in the region right now. Well as I said before this has basically exposed the US policies in the region like never before. Of course we have seen that in the last few years there has been greater realization that about Israel sorry about US policies the kind of you can say the emptiness or the rhetoric of the US policy being so empty of substance that on one side it talks about democracy human rights and kind of rights of the people in different parts of the world for example in Ukraine. But when it comes to kind of taking any stand in support of kind of freedom of people which everyone knows how Palestinians have been occupied and this is you can say in one way is the last surviving colony of the old type. Despite its being well known US has kind of refused to acknowledge that fact and has tried to play a role of kind of mediator between the two conflicted party this idea of two conflicting parties kind of putting Palestinians as an equal to Israel as if one is not occupied and one is not the That basically was not very clear all these years to a large part of large generation particularly which was born you can say post 1990s post 2000 and that basically has kind of been exposed like never before. If you see how they kind of vetoed the as you rightly pointed out in the United Nations Security Council resolution which basically talks about humanitarian ceasefire how they basically have deployed armaments and increase their presence military presence in the region just to kind of protect Israel's war in Gaza and how they basically trying to kind of in a way run Israeli foreign policy while Blinken and Biden visiting the region repeatedly trying to persuade Arab countries not to do anything not to kind of issue statements which are considered to be a quote unquote harmful to what Israel is doing. All of these basically in a way reaffirms the long standing and long held understanding of a section of the people that US is basically an imperialist project sorry Israel is basically an imperialist project in the region and US is the real the real puppet master and this as I said for a generation this was not the thing to be a thing to kind of accept now because of the things happening the way it is unfolding despite the media gag and everything this is reaching to a large part of people and they are increasingly realising how this is the case and in a way of course we don't know what will happen in future but in a way it is basically a kind of move forward for the much more just international politics in a way. That's a good point Abdul because I think like you were saying there's been maybe a normalization of the violence against Palestinians that has been taking place because one the intensity and regularity with which Israel has been conducting it over the years we've seen repeated attacks on Gaza, we've seen the kind of you know offensives that are taking place in West Bank, East Jerusalem and all that and whereas you know now many of those it has been thrown even starker. But one interesting thing you mentioned is also about the region itself and we know that prior to this there was this process of normalization which was going on which really the US had invested in massively and even some countries in the region at various levels were interested. The big question at that time was whether Saudi Arabia would at that point and there was also a different dynamic where within the region itself countries were sort of trying to work out the differences like between Iran and Saudi Arabia etc. So how do you see this last month and the kind of impact it has had on all these processes? Well I think the so called Abraham Accords are dead by and large for one reason nobody is saying that there will be no normalization with Israel in future but the way US has tried to push it kind of completely neglecting the Palestinian cause and it seemed for a while that a section of the Arab countries are very much willing to kind of accept that kind of approach is no more viable now and because not only because the number of people killed or the kind of atrocities and occupation has been exposed to the ruling classes no it is because the Arab population also has become much more assertive in a way that they are no longer willing to accept whatever comes from their governments in a way they were ready to do it before because for a very long time it seemed as we discussed earlier that the issue of Palestine is now almost like a very minor issue related to a small part of the world which has nothing to do with the rest of the Arab countries. Now the way it has unfolded the way it has required despite US attempts not to take regional regional dimensions it has taken regional dimension in a way that as I said before that Anthony Lincoln had to visit the region three times within a month to kind of persuade countries not to do it and so despite all those attempts it has acquired a regional dimension and the people in these countries are of course will not accept the kind of narrative which was being all this while that Palestine is not an issue for them. It is now much more accepted that Palestine is an Arab issue Palestine is a global issue it is an issue related to justice for the Palestinians that is one. One small point should also be made about the kind of image Israelis were trying to portray all this while in among the Arab countries that they are economically and technologically Israel is a superior country and Arab countries will benefit if they kind of align with Israel in one way or another and there is no benefit they are gaining if they are kind of in the name of Palestine they are kind of keeping away from Israel. So it is more harmful to keep away from Israel and it is beneficial to kind of be aligned with Israel. This notion has also been questioned in last one month because the small Palestinian resistance movement has been able to inflict a kind of attack on Israel which basically questions is so-called technological superiority or the superiority in weapon production and so forth. It has to depend it is very clear on the weapons supplied by the US diplomatic support supplied by the US money given by the US around $4.5 billion in aid. So all this basically exposes the invincibility of Israeli model in the region and that also will have an impact on the future diplomatic attempts to kind of make Israel much more acceptable in the region until there is an independent Palestinian state. Right, Abul, thank you so much for that analysis. So many issues like you said you know the question among other things for instance the whole question of the two state solution being dead has again once again become clear so much more clearer right now after all these developments as well. We also know that in the northern border Hezbollah has also taken a very powerful stand which you know which will only increase you know the problems Israel is facing and not to mention. I think Benjamin Netanyahu being more exposed than ever before in his political career so much to you know talk about as well. But thank you so much for that analysis and we'll be coming back to you for regular updates on Gaza on the resistance to Israeli occupation and apartheid. Around 400,000 workers in Quebec and Canada are gearing up for one of the largest public sector strikes in decades. In the Arab workers across sectors walked out of their jobs on Monday and are set for a major round of protest actions in the third week of November. Now the demands of those being made by workers across the world pay hikes that deal with inflation, decent working conditions in short respect for the labour. But the government seems unwilling to acknowledge these concerns if you go by the offers that they're making. Anish joins us for more. Anish thank you so much for joining us. Quite a massive strike by you know protest action by workers across sectors in Quebec actually and you know also sort of testimony to the kind of rising aggressiveness assertiveness of labour movements in that region as well. So could you maybe first take us through exactly what kind of workers are protesting, what are the kind of demands they've been putting forward and why are they making these demands? So right now what we're looking at is about four major sectors pretty much related to education, healthcare and social services. We are witnessing a whole host of strikes by different classes of workers. What we can look at is that it is not an entirely total strike that is shutting down the entire sector. But a certain kind of targeted strike that where you have public sector workers and essential services, you know, being running but other than that you have a whole host of other workers walking out. And that's about just 400,000, more than four, around four and 20,000 workers and that's a massive turnout for us, you know, a statewide strike in many ways. And that that is actually one of the highlights and we can actually expect more strikes in coming days. On 21st there was going to be another three days strike and there are probably going to be other strikes that are happening outside of this, you know, this coalition of trade unions of four major trade unions that are working in hand together. And these trade unions are pretty much the ones who are right now negotiating with the government for a wage hike. And in this, the strike itself is a result of the fact that the kind of offer that the government has given is not satisfactory. They have given a 10 percent, a 10.3 something percent of wage hike over the next five years. And that is not even, you know, forget about accommodating inflation rates. It's not, it's barely, you know, a two percent or two and a half percent rate hike over the next five years. And that is really not, you know, in keeping with any kind of precedent even, be it in Canada or Quebec. And this is something that is being strongly opposed. Obviously, they are having to deal with a very conservative, fiscally conservative government that does not believe that wage hikes are necessary for workers to thrive or survive even in the current situation. And despite the fact that Canada, unlike, you know, other western nations or even its neighbor, the United States hasn't done that badly when it comes to the cost of living crisis. It has, you know, managed decently well, but that doesn't mean that the effects were not felt on the working classes. And we have also seen, like many other places, rail wages coming down dramatically over the past few years. And so what the workers are looking for is an inflation, not just an inflation adjusted wage hike, but an inflation based wage hike over the next several years. And they have made that very clear, but the government pretends that there is no concrete, you know, proposal on the part of the trade unions, which is also not true. We have actually seen very clear set of demands. It says that they obviously haven't come up with an entire tentative deal. And that's the only thing that the government has against the trade unions as of now. We can actually, we are also seeing, you know, a set of strikes by teachers and nurses in this week load. And thousands, tens of thousands of other public sector workers in these sectors will be actually walking out of their jobs. And that will also be, you know, that will be happening aside from these four major trade unions calling for a national strike. So that is pretty much the scenario that we're looking at. We're looking at a generalized labor militancy of public sector workers, which obviously is coming from, you know, a significant level of victories that workers in North America have seen. And, you know, the least of all, which we saw with the trade, with the trade unions in automotive sector in the U.S. gaining major heights, especially bringing back cost of, cost of planning adjustments. This is definitely something that has boosted workers morale and the resolve to fight for fair wages and fair contracts in the coming years. Anish, I actually wanted to sort of ask you some more a bit about the last point you were mentioning, which is that there has been a general, you know, increase in assertiveness in, you know, the stress in terms of strengthening of trade union movements as well. So how do you see this happening in Canada as a whole as well? In part, like there are certain social contexts that are different in the case of Canada and the U.S. as well, at least in the case of Quebec, very specifically. But you do see certain kind of, you know, a overlapping of, you know, social struggle and working class struggle happening on the same plane, actually. Right now, the public sector workers that we're looking at are majority women. And that definitely is a major aspect on how and the necessity of this workers mobilization happening because obviously women, much like many other places are underpaid and compared to their male counterparts. And obviously, this mobilization is also highlighting that aspect of it, the fact that these public sector workers, especially in, you know, as teachers, as nurses, as auxiliary healthcare workers, as social service workers are, you know, a majority of them, a overwhelming majority of them being women. They do have to be, you know, given a certain kind of consideration on that level as well. So you are also seeing a certain kind of gendered class struggle in many ways in the way that they are pushing for better wages and better affair contract, along with the fact that there is a growing moment to actually address gender inequality in these sectors as well. So that apart from that, we, as I said, the victories of working class movement, not just in, you know, say what we saw with forge and remotors and, you know, all the automobile sector workers making major gains very recently. We have also seen strides being made in new forms of trade unionization in sectors that never really saw unionization before. And that is that has also rubbed off into Canada at this point. And this is pretty much an outcome of those victories and obviously the growing movement to bring out, you know, work, working class needs and, you know, working class demands to the forefront and to, you know, to the national position, which we have to point out like was more or less absent in the pre pandemic era, even though there were mobilizations that the impact that they had and the capacity to mobilize was severely restricted for various historical reasons. But right now they are overcoming all of that to actually make sure that there is, you know, a class mobilization happening that, you know, that hasn't happened for decades in the continent actually. And so this is part of that an extension of that and probably we will be seeing more, as I said, there are more mobilizations outside of this set of strikes in Quebec alone, and similarly in different parts of Canada. So we will be seeing more such trade union militant trade union mobilizations in the coming days in Canada for sure. Anish, thank you so much for that update. We'll come back to you when some of those mobilizations you were talking about take place. And that's all we have time for in this episode of Daily Deep Brief. Do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org, watch our videos, and before you go any further, if you haven't hit that subscribe button on YouTube, please do.


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Hey, welcome back to the channel. So in this video, I'm going to talk about how I grew my email list from scratch, from zero subscribers to today, 13,854 subscribers. And I did this mostly using free methods, which I'll talk about today. So if you are watching this video, if you've seen any of my content, you probably know how much I love email. It's a huge part of my business. It's the centerpiece of my business. And that's what I want to talk about today is how I grew my email list, which is the most valuable asset in my business. So before we jump into this, if you are new here, my name is Sean. On this channel, I talk about how to make money from writing online. So if you want more content around that, make sure you hit the like and subscribe button so that you don't miss any of my future videos. So let's hop into my screen here and I'm just going to walk you through exactly what I did. It's a four step system or four step strategy. And this is actually an entry in my Friday fire newsletter. It's a weekly newsletter. I send out obviously every Friday, but I know that not everyone's on my email list, so I do want to walk over this strategy and cover it with you so that you can see how if you are looking to grow your email list from scratch, how I've done it and how I got it to 13,000 plus subscribers today. So first thing is I want to talk about why you would want an email list and why it's so important. So an email list, the reason I love it, it's an owned asset that no one can take away from you. So think of it like your house, right? In your own house, you can throw your own parties. You can say what you want. You can do what you want.  Invite any of the people that you want over at your house. And so it's your house, right? So it's an owned asset. That's what your email list is. Now, if you are someone famous like Brad Pitt or Ryan Gosling or any of those famous movie stars, it is pretty easy to get someone to come over to your house.  But if you are like me, someone who's just a regular person who nobody knows, you need to give people a really good reason to come over to your house. And so that's what I'm going to talk about today is how I got 13,854 people who didn't know me before to come over to my house. And I've done this since 2020. So that's what the four step strategy is. I'm going to cover today. So step number one is you need to first determine who you want in your house. What I mean by that is you need to get it clear on who you can help and who you want on your email list.    So if I'm cooking steak and burgers, I want steak and burger lovers. And so that's what determining your who is, who do you want in your house? If you are cooking steaks and burgers or whatever your thing is, you want to invite those types of people over to your house. And you want to figure out who that is. So nowadays I have a few different segments of my audience. I have people who are just getting started learning a money making skill like writing emails that sell. And then I have other people who are experts who are looking to package up their expertise and create and sell digital products and programs. And so I have different segments. So it's kind of like having different friend groups, but I always started with one. So don't worry about targeting many different types of people all at once. Start with one main who, one main ideal client that you want in your house. And you can tailor your positioning, your messaging and your offers around that to get those people onto your email list.  Step number two is to create a bait. So if you're fishing for Marlin, you can't just expect to throw out a hook and catch a Marlin, right? You have to put some kind of bait on it, right?  And it's the same thing with your email list. You need to give people something that will get them wanting to join your list, happy to join your list. So what bait can you offer to get people happy to join your list? I have done everything from a one page PDF to a single video training to short ebooks and 70 email courses. And so the delivery method doesn't really matter too much. What matters is that you are offering a bait that your person in step one wants. So if you are trying to attract, for example, I want to work with experts who want to build a lean six figure business, selling their advice and creating digital products. So I'm going to create a bait that will attract that type of person. So I have this course here. It's called the one K a day offer buffet course. And this breaks down my business model, my one person business model and how someone can take the strategy and use it and build a business like that for themselves. So if someone wants to build this a business similar to mine, a lean one person business where they're selling their expertise and their advice, they're going to be attracted to a course like this. So if you go to Sean Anthony.co, by the way, you're going to see this on the homepage and someone can put in their first name and email address. And once they do, boom, they're on my email list. So this is my free bait in this case. I have multiple different free baits. I like I've said, I've done PDFs and ebooks. And if you join my Facebook group, email marketing rain makers, there's a different date there, but this is for an expert type.  And once you have your bait, all you got to do is create a simple opt-in page just like this, right? And opt-in page is somewhere where someone can put their first name and their email so they get put onto your list.  They give you their email address and congrats. They're on your email list now. Okay, so real simple. This is mine right here or one of my opt-in pages is just, this is my main website, Sean Anthony.co. So you can see it and this is the opt-in form right here. Step three is to pretty up and optimize your social profiles. Now, whether we admit it or not, we are all judgmental or all human beings and if we see something, we're going to feel or think a certain type of way.  That's just how it is, right? That's just how our minds work. So I use social media to get all of my email subscribers. And because I do that, I want to make sure that I have a good first impression when someone clicks over to my social profile. So I want to pretty it up, optimize it so that when my ideal person lands on it, it looks good and it attracts them to wanting to work more with me. So let's take a look at my LinkedIn profile as an example. I actually have separate videos on how to optimize your LinkedIn profile. So I'll link to those below. But real quick, what are we doing here? We have the cover photo. So you can see this email Rainmaker helping you make more money with email. It has a website link, a call to action, which is this homepage right here so that they can opt in for this free bait. That's one area you can see my picture. It's just a professional looking headshot with a green background. And we have my headline. So within seconds, someone can land on my profile. They know exactly what I do, building a $1 million a year, one person business, writing one email a day and helping people make more money from writing online. So in two seconds that it takes you to read that. You know exactly what I do and who I help and how I can help you. And also I have this handy little link here. So it says build your one person business. This just links. It's a benefit link that links to my bait. So this goes to the homepage as well. Other sections are my featured section here. So if I go down, you can see this links to my email list as well. If I click here, boom, we've got the same link. And then also if I go to my about section, it gives a little background and a little story about who I am and my journey and what I'm working on now. And you can of course opt into my email list and different social profiles here. So this LinkedIn profile, this is a social media profile. I'm optimizing it for my ideal person. And when they land here, there's multiple different ways for them to join my email list and get my free bait. So you want your profile to do the same thing. If someone lands on mine, it has a cover photo with a clear message and a call to action. My headline tells you in one to two sentences what I do. There's a link that drives people to my bait and it's benefit driven, right? Build your one person business. There's a featured section that links to my bait as well. And if you look at my Twitter, my Facebook, my YouTube profiles, they're all optimized very similarly. So if I go to my Facebook real quick, you can see here. Got a picture, my cover photo is just me and my family. You can see in the intro or the bio here, it has that same headline and it links to a way to join my email list here. And then I also have all my content here. So all of your social profiles that you're active on, you want to make sure that it's prettied up and optimized so that when someone lands on it, they're not judging you in a negative way, right? They're saying, how can I work more with this person here? So once our profiles are prettied up, what we want to do next is step four, which is to generate attention. So at this point, you should already know who you want on your email list, who you want in your house. You should have some kind of bait to give people a reason to join your email list. You should have an opt-in page to collect email addresses, something simple like this. You should have also optimized your active social profiles, just like I showed you with my LinkedIn here and my Facebook profile. Now, all you have to do is generate attention so that people can find you and we do this through social media. I say that like it's super simple, like it's super easy. It is simple. It's not easy. It takes consistency over a long period of time. So like I mentioned in the last step, I use social media to generate attention, but social, the difference with email is it's a borrowed asset. So if someone on social media who's reviewing your profile or maybe your followers report you because they don't like something you said, you can be booted or canceled at any time. Right? They can kick you off of the platform and tap in many times.  So it's not like an owned asset. Your email list, which is one of the biggest reasons why we want to have an email list for safety. You can get booted, right? Because it's not your house. You're borrowing an asset. The upside reason why we use social media is our who is hanging out there. So if I'm targeting experts and coaches and consultants, most of them aren't on my email list already. I have to go and find them.  So all of the people that I want on my email list are on social media. So we have to generate attention on social to drive them to our owned asset or email list. So how do we do that? Well, we make posts. All we have to do is make sure that the posts are relevant, useful and valuable to our specific person. Now, as you make posts on social and you do this every day or whatever your cadence is, you're going to start as long as it's relevant, useful and valuable stuff. You're going to start attracting people. They're going to start checking out your profile. So they're going to start to say things like, oh, I like this post that Sean's made here, right? How I grew my email list. I'm going to check him out. I'm going to click over to his profile. What does he have going on? Oh, he has an email list. Oh, he has a free video around email. He has a product here that I can buy.  And you can see here, I have 28,727 post impressions in the last seven days, which is actually a bit down from the last previous weeks and 4,467 profile views. That means 4,467 people clicked over to my profile because they wanted to see more after seeing my content. So that's generating attention. That's what I mean by that. Now, once they do check out your profile and let's say that they click around, right? They see this. I want to see more about what Sean has to say about one person businesses they opt in. That's how we get people on to our email list. And that's how I've gotten 13,854 subscribers on my email list for the most part is I generate attention using social media. I have links that lead to different bates and ways to opt into my list. And you can see one example of that here. So all I'm doing on a daily basis is I am making posts. I'm generating attention. I'm making sure that it's relevant, useful and valuable. Just like this video, I'm hoping it's valuable and useful to you. And I'm driving people to my email list from there. Now, real quick, I don't recommend that you try and tackle four platforms at once. If you do, you're probably going to end up overwhelmed. You're probably not going to post any content at all.  So what I recommend is choosing one platform, one main platform, maybe two, if you can handle it and do it for six to eight months before adding any other platform. So me personally, I started with my YouTube channel. And then I started driving people to my Facebook group. And from Facebook, I started building my email list right after that. So I started sending people from YouTube to Facebook group to my email list. I have a Twitter account, but I didn't start that until February 2021. Over a year after I started on YouTube and Facebook, and I added LinkedIn just a few months ago in May 2022. The goal with all these platforms is the same, though, is to drive people to my email list to generate attention, drive them to my email list. So I am publishing posts on a daily basis. I'm sending out a daily email and I'm using that to drive more and more people to my email list for free. Now, if you want to see a live case study of how I do this and generate attention, all you have to do is go to my LinkedIn profile here. You can follow me so you can see this on a daily basis. I usually post one to two times a day. If you go to posts, you can see all of my different posts. Here, these are my attention-generating posts. Now, if you want more around creating content and building an audience, make sure that you're on my email list. Go to www.SeanAnthony.co, like I just showed you right here, opt-in. And I'm going to be having a product that's coming out. It's going to be $100 or less around creating content and building an audience. I don't have an exact release date yet, but it is coming. I'm working on it right now. So keep your eyes peeled on that. I'm going to announce it first to my email list. So make sure that you're on my list if you want to hear more about that. I'll probably get a discount code as well. But anyway, I hope that helps. This is the exact strategy I used to get 13,854 subscribers from scratch, from zero subscribers. We all start somewhere, don't be intimidated, actually go out and do this, and you're going to start building your email list as well. So hope this helps. Remember, if you want the next Friday Fire issue and you want to be notified about this product that I have in the future around building your audience and content creation, make sure that you opt-in at my site, www.SeanAnthony.co, and you will be the first to hear about that. So anyway, I hope this was valuable and useful. If it was, give it a like. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions, and I'll see you in the next video. Take it easy.


This afternoon is a simple but significant ceremony because I can assure you that the fiscal situation of the government had to be tweaked and had to be prioritized for us to get $1.06 million to buy vehicles for the police. It's not a situation that the government can afford. We cannot afford. But it was important that we made a statement to the police that we cared about them and we cared about their conditions of work. And this is why I want to thank my cabinet for agreeing to prioritize expenditure even before the budget to get $1 million to spend on the police service. And this is not the beginning of the improvement of conditions of work for the police. I want to tell you quite boldly that once we use what we have correctly, you will be getting more vehicles because I know you deserve more vehicles. So you will be getting more vehicles but a condition that you use what you have wisely and you use it as if it was yours. I was speaking to the police eye command this week and I said to them the matter of fighting crime on the work of police officers ought to be not only a duty but a vocation. It ought to be something that you want to leave a legacy that I was a member of the police force when criminal activity in this country was reduced to zero on year zero. A legacy that you can tell your children that I was part of it. I caused St Lucia to be a safer place and I caused the people of St Lucia to work and live and make our country one of the best places to work and live in the world. And the way you achieve that is by ensuring that there is a secure country. And it must be looked upon as a job. It must be looked upon as if something that you do to make the government or to make the prime minister look good. When most of you will be there, I will not be prime minister because you have a security of tenor. I have no security of tenor. People decide my faith every five years or sometimes if you in Barbados every three years. So I very well know that my faith depends on people. No one has to remind me. I need no reminder. What I know is once the people have entrusted me with the confidence and I want to thank them for that. Once they have allowed me, the people of St Lucia, to have the confidence to be in a position where I can administer the governance of this country, I will do it without fear and favor to the best of my ability for the well-being of the majority. And the well-being of the majority means that we must have a safe and secure country for us to live in. So I will spend no efforts within the limits of the fiscal constraints that we live with to improve your conditions. So this year, and I say this year with emphasis, we are going to commence construction of the Grozile police station. The Grozile police station is a station six years too late. But it's going to start this year and I've been told that the construction time will be a little less than 18 months. So if God spares our lives and the people of St Lucia spare our lives, we will be opening a brand new police quarters in the town of Grozile if not at the end of 2022 in the first quarter of 2023. We are also going to be, and I've just discussed with the attorney general, we are finalizing the agreement with Naipo to repair the view fort police station. That agreement is going to be finalized very soon and Naipo has promised that they are ready to commence work on the view fort or the southern headquarters of the police fort. So we are going to start that this year and it's going to continue hopefully understand that the construction time maybe about 12 months. So the police officers in the south, you are going to have better conditions of work very soon. There has been a lot of criticism about the police, criticism about the police high command. And everyone knows that many people are saying that the government's actions have been too slow when it comes to the police service. But I want to tell you that part of my philosophy is allowing every man and woman a chance to prove themselves wrong. I start with trusting you until you cause me to distrust you. And I always say to my colleagues that I'm not in the business of reading any man or woman's heart. That's what my father taught me. So I never try to imagine people's motives or people's heart. I can't, I never will and no one will. I can only act on your actions. I can only act on how you behave. I can only act on what you produce. And that is how I will measure the police service on the actions and the production, not on anybody's heart. I can't promise you that. Apart from not being a heart surgeon, it's impossible to read anybody's heart. So I will not try to interpret anybody's motives. I challenge the police high command and the officers to improve the crime situation in the country. And they want the tools to do it. I will provide the tools. These are not going to be the only vehicles that you're going to get. We are going to produce more vehicles to you this year. Because what we ask for you is from you is commitment. What we ask from you is every day you put your uniforms or you go to work. You go to work with a purpose of improving the quality of life for yourself, your children and the country. Because at some point if the crime continues, it will reach your doorstep. It might reach yours personally, but it will reach your friend, your cousin, your family, it will reach you. So you have a moral duty to ensure that by your actions and by the work you do, not for the prime minister, not for me, not for the government, not for the ministers, for yourself and for your country, you give a fair day's work for a fair day's speed. I know that your conditions could be better. But I want to tell you that's the history of our government to improve the conditions of the men and women of the police force. We were the ones who built all the new police stations in Selusha today. I can say that without any fear or favor. We were the ones who built the Mashan police station. We were the ones who built the two police stations in Denri. We were the ones who will build the grocery police station. So when it comes to understanding the conditions of work under which policemen live and work, work in particular, we know about it. And this government will continue, will continue to work so that you can have better conditions.  It's up to you to a pride and dignity. It's up to you to understand that you have to work together. This cannot be a business of territory or territorial or this is my section. This is his and I can't interfere in it. We cannot run the police force as silos. We cannot run the police force where we are hoping that somebody will fail so we can succeed. Failure for one is failure for all.  So I want you to take this handover, this $1.06 million which we spent as just the government, it's not a favour, it's the government's commitment to you so that you in turn can improve the conditions, can improve the quality of life in this country. And the quality of life depends on how safe people are. Telusia used to be a place where you could, on evenings, relax on the beach with your family. I hope so, your family. You can relax on the beach with your family. It used to be a place where people used to go window shopping. Now all the stores are covered. You can't even see what's there. It's a place where people used to go and sit on the Derek Walker Square. We need to be able to bring back that quality of life to Telusia. Telusia cannot be a place where you are afraid. And it's up to you. The onus is on you to bring that life back. We can bring it back. They are countries in the region where we brought it back. Sometimes we speak about Singapore. The first situation in Singapore was they did two things. They cleaned the country and they saw about law and order. A country without law and order, regardless of all the strides that you make economically, if there is no law and order, if there is not security of person, the country will not be a good place to live. So this home invasion thing must stop. I was appalled that there could have been a home invasion in one of the most popular places in Telusia. And I know weaknesses are afraid to come forward as a short decommission of police that this year he's going to get more resources for your weakness protection program. Because you can't have a situation where people see a crime is committed. They keep quiet because they are afraid that they get injured if they bear testimony. That cannot be right. It cannot be right. So the police, their weakness protection program will be strengthened. But the public themselves must put a hand as they see. The public has expect that the police will be the eyes and the ears of everywhere, for everywhere. And there's a lot of criticism. Sometimes the criticism of the police is warranted. But we cannot blame if one policeman does something wrong to blame the entire police force for the inactions of one policeman. And the police themselves, by their behavior, must show a level of empathy and a level of professionalism because you are very important and powerful people. Any man or woman who can take some body's freedom for 72 hours is a powerful person, very powerful. And when you have that uniform or you take that oath, you become extremely powerful. So you have to use that power with prudence and temperance and showing that it is for the benefit of all the people. So this afternoon, Mr. Commissioner, this is just the beginning of the improvement of the working conditions for the members of your force. I want to thank my cabinet colleagues for understanding that this government deals with priorities. And if you notice, the first people we bought vehicles for is for the police and we kept the old vehicles that we inherited. And that is significant because we have used vehicles and you have new ones. That is how important we take you and the members of your service. So everybody must understand our commitment to law and order. And we are not going to be going about the police boasting and beating our chairs. We think that the police, they deserve it. So the police cannot be put in a situation where they have to get their requirements from dinners. That is how good and well-being these may be. The government must make a conscious effort using the resources of the state to put law and order first and regardless of the constraints, we will have to find the resources plus dinners if you want. But we have to have the resources to improve your conditions of service. Thank you very much for the work that you've been doing. I know that the public expects a lot more from you. I want you to live up to these expectations. The government will support you. So I want you from today to have a more unified police force. Each policeman must watch his brother's back. That is the essence of your business. Watch each other's back. And I said before, it cannot be let him fail for me to succeed. I thank you very much.


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After the ending of chapter 1092, 1093 started with the awakened ancient giant robots. Ha, who are we kidding? This is Oda we're talking about. The man's cliffhangers have cliffhangers. So of course we didn't see the continuation of that crazy development. Which more than anything is suspect timing. Because that's likely Oda's way of showing us that because the robot is most likely what will be playing a big role in how this arc ends. As of now, it's not time yet to reveal all its secrets. But we did still get a continuation of the last chapter with Luffy turning into his giant form via his Gifth abilities and his fight with Kizaru continues with all the cartoonish Gifth elements that come with it. Although in saying that the cartoonish goofiness hasn't quite extended to Kizaru as we've seen in the past with Luffy's other opponents, at least for now. The Admiral remains as calm as always this chapter. Which makes me wonder if this could also be the start of us gradually moving away from Luffy's Gifth form always being so comical to introduce more tension. In which case, I think this is a good move considering who we anticipate to be his opponents in the battles to come. With the likes of Akainu and Blackbeard being our opponents in future story developments. Luffy has a personal dramatic stake in defeating both of these characters due to their respective roles in his loss of his brother Ace. And so having a more serious tone to their battles would be more appropriate so that the fights feel more dramatic than Luffy just simply goofing around. Not to say that these battles in the future will be 100% serious because that's also just not the style of one piece. And it is a satisfying image to picture Luffy wildly spinning a bewildered Akainu like he did with Kizaru just recently. But you get what I mean. We need more tension to make it a more engaging story. And I think we're heading in the right direction here with this fight as a nice balance of the comedic elements while not making Kizaru a total victim to the goofiness of Luffy's Gifth. Kizaru largely remains the same as he always has and generally unfazed. And yet Luffy vs Kizaru is also turning out to be a very fun battle with a lot of fun bits in their clash. Also, if I remember correctly, this may be the most time that we've spent in an airborne fight that we've seen in the series so far. Something that's hard not to mention of course is the fact that Luffy is taking on an admiral one on one and that the result of this match is still a large question mark. And so this development takes you back to the days where Luffy was an unfortunate, underwhelming underdog against far bigger threats such as the admirals. Marineford obviously stands out as one of these often moments as well as Saobodi, but Kizaru was the main obstacle in Luffy's way and was back then just able to kick Luffy around with absolutely no possibility for him or his crew to fend off such an overwhelming presence. Yet right now, here we are. And although Kizaru has been impacted for some comedic effects such as, again, that childish spinning, like I mentioned earlier, for the most part, Kizaru still remains that carefree and that nonchalant vibe in which he carries himself. But he is at least being shown to use more of his abilities, some of which we've never seen before, which is proof of him needing to reach into his bag and actually put in some effort to fight Luffy. And because in my opinion, Kizaru's abilities translates really well into the anime, I can't help but be very excited to see all those new moves that we saw in this chapter become animated, especially that one where he tries to stop himself from landing in the ocean, so he breaks apart into particles and then uses his own Shadow Clone Jutsu all in very quick succession, which is a very fun sequence to witness in a great callback moment for Luffy to refer to it as a holo ghost. I like Luffy had them all lined up to stamp through all of them at once, but because I am such a big sound effects girl, it felt like I was missing the complete experience of these action sequences because it's hard to perfectly imagine on what sort of sound to connect them to in my head. But in any case, it was fun seeing Luffy tactically get rid of them all at once. And as for Luffy's fighting, firstly, it's always cool to see a protagonist add new attacks to his arsenal, and his name for these attacks being Booming Dawn is quite meta, given that Luffy himself probably doesn't associate himself with the new dawn or is aware of his sun theme. But in any case, they were physically very cool attacks and I'd equally like to see them animated. But mostly, I like that Luffy's Gifth hasn't turned out to be Luffy's version of Popeyes after eating spinach, wherein as soon as Luffy activates this form, it guarantees him an easier path to victory. Right now, it still feels like a power that he very much needs to get used to and use wisely, not only because of its effect on his own stamina, but overall, it's just not a sure-proof way of defeating strong opponents automatically. It made sense for him to gain the upper hand and have an easier time with Kaido back at Wano, because when Luffy activated Gifth, it was near the end of their battle when Kaido was also close to his limit, or at least not as fresh as Kizuru currently is against Luffy, since Kaido was also more of a physical brute-style fighter who takes on and gives back physical blows in their fight. But here we see that Kizuru has way more tricks up his sleeve due to the nature of his devil fruit, which creates a very different style of fighting that we witnessed at Onigashima. And so I'm looking to see more of it. But I can't help but get the feeling that this main clash between the Yonku and Admiral will not have an actual victor here at Egghead, and the arc will actually end with the Straw Hats escaping, which we will talk more about later. The fact that Kizuru still doesn't seem like he's going all out yet does raise a lot of interesting questions about his characterization. Is it really a showcase that Luffy has quite a way to go before reaching Kizuru's status in terms of strength and abilities? Is it more of a demonstration about Kizuru's lazy justice full-on show and he just can't be bothered to put up a full-on fight? Or are his morals and his own brand of justice a lot more complex and deeper than we realize? Where he truly doesn't actually want to kill Vega Punk or the Straw Hats. Although we did get teases of his backstory as we also witnessed Sentomaru's in previous chapters, I have a feeling that this is a character that we're going to delve into a little bit deeper in the chapters to come. But continuing with the action, with Luffy taking on Kizuru, this leaves Zoro to handle Luchi, which I have to add is another one of those holy crap, look how far we've come type of moments. Given the last time that these two fought, which you couldn't even call a fight because that was a one-sided beatdown at the hands of Luchi, now Zoro is so confident he thinks that this is a matter that the captain shouldn't concern himself with. And that has to be one of the most low-key badass lines I've ever heard that puts Zoro in a great position while also elevating Luffy at the same time. It makes Zoro and his confidence look so cool, which then says even more about the respect that he has for Luffy. Because a man as cool as this recognizes and submits himself to Luffy, ah, have I mentioned that the Straw Hats are my favorite character? And if you love the Straw Hats as well, then make sure to give your girl a subscribe because we've got a new challenge to get this channel up to 100k by the end of the year and I would most appreciate your help. This matchup seems to have started in their peak form, signifying that both Zoro and Luchi are taking the others seriously from the get-go with Luchi in his awakened form and Zoro's flames around his swords indicating that he's in his King of Hell state. And so I am very excited to see Zoro get a shot at redemption against Luchi. But with Luffy posing as a force that can actually stand up to Kizuru and Oda not presenting not too much cause for concern between Zoro and Luchi so far, it does tease whether the tide is about to turn now that Atlas has issued an override command to regain control of the pacifistas but we know that it's not quite that simple because of the presence of a certain Jay Garcia Saturn. It's a not so subtle comment that whoever controls the pacifista will win this fight before ending the chapter with Saturn's ominous presence. The optimism of the Vega punks makes it clear that they believe they have the highest rank of authority on the island and that everyone is unaware of Saturn. Luffy and the straw hats may even be unaware of the existence of the Gorosei completely. And so while the most obvious action for Saturn to take is to retake control over the pacifistas thereby turning the tide heavily in his group's favor, it's also highly possible that we may be soon witnessing a full reveal of the mysterious devil fruit of one of the Gorosei. And on the topic of mysteries, Bonnie's real age is an area we do seem to be getting more information about. It's been a topic of constant speculations due to the abilities of her devil fruit. Vega punk being overly concerned and his overprotective reaction about Bonnie on top of referring to her as a little girl, not to mention Kizaru's comment last chapter. It all really does seem to support the speculation of Bonnie being a younger child than she seems to be physically. So I don't know, what do you think?  Overall, with everything going on, the outcome isn't super clear in terms of how this arc will end. And this chapter only further heightened that feeling of being kept on our toes that I've been getting about Egghead to a whole nother level. Will Luffy and the Straw Hats just beat Kizaru, the CP Zero, and the Marines along with Saturn as well? Will Saturn take complete control and the pacifistas will end up causing a tragedy for the crew and their allies? Will there be more casualties on top of the Vega punks that we've already lost this arc? Does the now awakened ancient giant end up becoming the biggest factor for the crew escaping the island? Or will it be Kuma who will arrive to rescue his daughter before using his ability one last time by sending the alliance away to Elba for a sudden start to a new arc? It's just crazy how we have all of these potential scenarios happening, but no clear indication of one of them being more likely to be the solution or being the ending more so than the others. And because after all, we could also witness an entirely different scenario that we haven't even considered yet. And while it may not be too long before we get an answer to this, because Egghead does seem to be close to its climax, we will at least have to wait a little longer for this to actually eventually because there will be a break next week. But if you subscribe to this channel, then I will help make that break week void more bearable for you by providing you with more One Piece content. So please subscribe, please like, let me know what you thought of the chapter and what you think where we're heading on Egghead as a comment below. As always, thanks for listening to one of my rambling thoughts and thank you to all of our Patreon and channel members for your continued support. 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First, ladies and gentlemen, start by thanking the Centre for International Forestry Research for so clearly having focused on the link between forests and climate change. And this week, leaders from the whole world assemble here in Copenhagen because we must curb global warming. All nations of the world are focused now on how to reach an agreement which will effectively limit greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. To succeed, all countries need to contribute consistent with their capabilities and all major sources of emissions regulated. Alarmingly, we are currently destroying forests at a rate that, as we heard, generates 17% of our global annual carbon emissions. This accounts for almost a fifth of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions. So it goes without saying, if deforestation continues at the current level, there is simply no way we are going to reach our target of keeping the increase in global mean temperature under two degrees and not to speak of, hopefully, even 1.5 degrees Celsius. In contrast, by preserving and better managing our forests, global carbon emissions can be significantly and rapidly reduced at a reasonable cost while we protect the livelihoods of local communities and indigenous peoples. This will also contribute to maintaining biodiversity, rainfall patterns and soil quality, and help countries adapt to climate change which is already happening. Our common future, the report we published more than 20 years ago, was one of the first international documents to address the issue of global warming. We pointed to deforestation as a cause of global warming and warned, and I quote, that more than 11 million hectares of tropical forests are destroyed per year, and this, over 30 years, would amount to an area about the size of India, end of quote. I'm sorry to say that time has proven us right. According to FAO figures, there has been no observable reduction in the global deforestation rate since 1987. We are still on our way towards destroying an area the size of India by 2017. Now, on the one hand, the climate crisis can help us save the world's forests. Yes, paradoxically enough, the crisis not only can, but indeed must catalyze a salvaged operation for the world's forests. If we are to survive, we simply have to stop destroying our biggest terrestrial carbon store. Scientists also warned that continued global warming could create a massive forest dieback where forests convert from being massive sinks of carbon to becoming a gigantic additional source of carbon emissions. On the other hand, forests can contribute to solving the climate crisis. Forests have to play a key role in our fight against climate change. Thus, on the potential of forests in climate change mitigation indicate that stopping deforestation and promoting afforestation and reforestation could deliver 30% of the cost-effective potential. This will be important both to sustain public support over time and to minimize negative effects for the global economy. There are few areas where the mutual interests between the developed and developing countries are as obvious and as tangible as in the negotiations on a mechanism for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, enhancement of carbon stocks, conservation and sustainable management of forests in developing countries. Also known, of course, under the less breathtaking name Red Plus. Two overarching commitments are needed to get red off the ground. Firstly, the developed nations must commit to compensate the developing nations economically for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and for enhancing the storage of carbon in their forests. Secondly, the developing nations must commit to produce these reductions in environmentally, socially and economically sustainable ways. This must be done in a transparent and verifiable manner and the rights of the people living off the forests must be respected. So unlocking the potential of forests to climate change mitigation represents a major opportunity for world leaders to show real responsibility and leadership here in Copenhagen. There seems to be broad agreement between the parties in the negotiations that Red Plus should be included in the post-2012 climate regime. However, there is much less agreement on how the red mechanism should be designed. We now need progress on this key challenge. Forests are on the threat and time is of the essence. These are some essential decisions that would facilitate urgent action on Red Plus. A financing mechanism to cover the upfront costs of developing countries' preparations for Red and to pay the developing countries for verified emissions reductions from forests. A phased approach that allows developing countries in varying circumstances or preparedness for Red to get involved. An incentive structure that is performance based and designed to stimulate higher quality monitoring, reporting and verification. A process to finalize negotiations on the detailed design of the mechanism within a year. Now an informal working group on intermediate funding of Red was established by world leaders for the G20 meeting in April. And they found that the world could achieve a 25% reduction in global deforestation rates by 2015. This would cost 15 to 25 billion euros. And reduce CO2 emissions by 7 billion tons between 2010 and 2015. Such an initiative would deliver far greater mitigation at far lower cost than any other proposal that is currently on the table for coming years. This in itself should inspire the North and the South to come together in identifying workable solutions and soon. If key decisions on Red Plus are included in the outcome of next week's high level negotiations, the prospects for the world's climate and our forests will be immensely improved. Now in the midst of all this, we need to remember that forests are more than carbon sinks. As we heard, some 1.6 billion people, almost 20% of the world population, rely heavily on forests for their livelihoods. More than 2 billion people, a third of the world's population, use biomass fuels, mainly firewood, to cook and to heat their homes. Billions rely on traditional medicines harvested from the forest. In some 60 developing countries, hunting and fishing on forested land supplies over a fifth of protein requirements. The world's forests contribute billions if not trillions of dollars to the global economy through biodiversity, soil conservation and flood control.


For over 25 years I made ceramics. I was a potter, throwing pots on the wheel, supplying shops and galleries. Alongside making pots I'd become interested in computers. I was really intrigued about the two contrasting ways of creating things. I started to use 3D software, CAD software and I used it as a sketching tool but alongside traditional sketching. I've always drawn. I spent long, long hours as a child drawing. With this there wasn't actually a great deal of time spent with pencil and paper in the sketchbook and I very quickly moved into the CAD software. In the CAD software I would draw a rectangle divided up according to the Fibonacci series. So I was using the guidance of the golden section, the mathematics, and then start to create the form within that rectangle and then create various iterations until I was happy with a simple line drawing. Then I could take that simple line drawing and revolve it in the CAD software to produce a virtual three-dimensional object and then I start to create the inside and that was simply created from a single line that was a raid 360 degrees in one direction and then that's a line that's circle of lines was a raid in the opposite direction to create a starburst, a bloom. I'm playing with words a little bit in the titling of this. I want to reference growth in terms of the growth of a new technology, growth of new ideas, growth of new ways of working but the boom part, the explosion is the sort of shock of the new I suppose. It's overturning preconceptions, it's challenging thinking so that's why it's called the the bloom. 25 years of making pots has enabled me to make that leap to be able to really understand what I'm doing on the computer.