ffordable housing yes why don't we hear colleagues um for the affordable housing uh committee um i'm going to make recommendation that we uh we'll see let's see what happens i may maybe the votes are all cast and this recommendation will be moved but if not i'll i'll make it so madame clerk why don't you tell us uh how the votes have been cast for the uh affordable housing committee okay for the at-large position um there were agreement amongst five of the nominees um stella adams nicole digs jarvis martin john parker and timothy stallman and then there was one that was outstanding okay and how about the other uh the other categories okay for the resident of affordable housing venice sanders the formerly homeless individual rita mcdonnell mcdaniel excuse me member with expertise in real estate development nicole furnace member with expertise in housing finance lucia constantine representative of the citizen advisory committee levon barnes all right so thank you madam clerk so it sounds like we um let me remind everybody that there are actually two more uh positions to be filled we only had one applicant for the people living in affordable housing category right madam clerk right we have one but we are going to advertise for the remaining so there are two more there are two more that will be representative of the group of people who are currently living in affordable housing um so um we have one vacancy and lots of good candidates uh on the um for the at-large positions um i'm going to uh ask about the council's interest in a candidate who's not in that at-large category but i think would add a lot and i think would add a lot in a way we need is courtney james who is in the um in the realtor category we chose nicole furnace for that category i would be happy to support miss james would like to support miss james and the other at-large seat i think that she brings she's the owner of um or i'm not sure if it's they call them owners in real estate companies she's the the principal um of urban Durham Realty and they're doing a lot of interesting things in terms of trying to think through affordability and she also just brings that important perspective that i think we need from somebody who is in our real estate community we've got one or two but i think we could really use more that somebody who's really knows the housing market so i'd like to recommend that but i know that that is um um it will take some an action by the council will take a motion uh or at least some thumbs up so it would be interested in hearing other people's thoughts on that i see a thumb up from councilmember cabrero but who would like to comment on that i would like to come sure so before we make that distinction can we get a clarity around who's been assigned or who's been actually nominated and whether or not um the diversity lines up sure i can give you an update on the remaining nominees i think that councilmember uh freeman means something different madame madame clark she means what's the diversity of the people that have been chosen so far isn't that right councilmember yeah so i think so far um that would be one two i think there's three maybe three white people and no so far the at-large positions there are two white males and two black females and one black male that's the um the six seats for the at-large residents the rest we have um one two three black females one white female and one black male yeah so that's seven african-american nominees and three white uh or you know choices that we've made so far you're correct yeah so uh i think that's good diversity um anybody want to anybody uh uh would like to express themselves uh or give a thumbs up or down on choosing james for that i was just gonna concur with you on miss james's experience in the community and i would also suggest concur that it would be a great recommendation all right let me see thumbs then if people are okay with that um seeing thumbs from everyone except mayor pro tem who i don't she's probably feeding a child dinner but i i believe that there are six uh thumbs i'll be back for the closed session but she did have to hop off yeah uh so madame clark uh courtney james would be the other nominee okay thank you there are so many good people on this list um including one of my best friends who is not on my list but they're just so many great people that we we we have um i think it was what the what uh councilmember melton said earlier we have an embarrassment of riches here in this situation all right um have we done it all for the appointments madam clerk yes we have thank you very much thank you and uh thank you to laverne and we appreciate you all for doing the work okay um madam attorney uh it is now time for us to go into closed session uh can you set the agenda yes we can sorry city manager mr maverick we said the question yeah the point of uh inquiry um just to put a fine point on our shot spot of discussion we didn't actually there's a a formal offer uh and i did i understand you your last statement to be if staff makes a recommendation we didn't really kind of formally say yay or nay to it i thought i understood you to say if staff has a recommendation they can make it i just want to be clear yeah that's what i was uh saying to um is that if we if staff recommends this to us then we would formally take it up as we traditionally do yes if staff has a recommendation they should bring it to us i would invite that okay is that helpful it is helpful i'm just want to for this particular item i mean obviously there are things that this council has if a counselor brings something up and wants to do something we've taken action on council initiated initiatives as well but for this particular item you're you're deferring and saying it's that i mean i guess i was sort of reading the tea leaves right um but if if anyone can can can make a motion i agree any council member can make a motion we've discussed this and if you wanted to make a motion on that uh you know today or at another time we could certainly do that i don't i'm not trying to preclude that i agree that absolutely no and i just wanted to honor your final you know directive uh uh hold in a gavel that that so i'll defer to what you said that's that i just wanted to be clear that that's what you that was the uh intended outcome of that particular discussion just to put a fine point of staff wants to think we're dead absolutely no i won't offer a motion today thank you mr man thank you very much um mr bonfield you're settling your last agenda here thank you mr mayor uh yes i have uh items for consent one through five seven through nine eleven through fourteen and twenty seven and then gba public hearings seventeen to nineteen and twenty six thank you so much uh i see a question do i see a question from council member freeman i just want to touch back on i know you explained it very thoroughly exactly how the the program is set up with the county i have concerns that the questions are going to continue to be raised and so i would love to get staff's recommendation on how to make sure that residents understand that there's a difference and there's not been a shift for this year how would you like that to happen council member do you do you want that to be made public about the city um public affairs office that would be helpful yes okay i think so mr manager um council member freeman is referring to the low-income homeowner program that we make clear that this year the existing program will be continuing to exist for this year and we'll get with the department community development to be sure to reiterate that thank you very much thank you colleagues uh you have heard the manager's agenda can i have a motion that we settle the agenda moved back in moved by council member re seconded by council member freeman that we settle the agenda madam clerk can you please call the roll mayor shul uh mayor pro dem johnson council member caballero hi council member freelon council member freeman hi council member middleton i vote i council member reese hi thank you thank you colleagues um in the covet era if you're not actually here to vote you don't count as a yes so that motion passes six to zero okay now we will turn to the attorney um madam attorney uh to talk about our closed session and guide us into that good afternoon again members of city council and mr mayor um again the city attorney's office has at the council's request sought for the disclosure of the law enforcement recordings that are related to the incident that occurred at rochelle manor on august 21st 2020 we did obtain a court order that allows me to share those videos with city


So I'm joined by my colleague, Aaron Thomas. Aaron, thanks for joining me. G'day, Sonia. G'day, viewers. Today, Sonia and I are going to talk about optimizing your Windows Server. Now, Sonia, Windows Server's been around for a while. It has. It was one of the first things I got into tech-wise, was installing that very first version of Windows NT Server back in 1993. And I got started with Windows NT4, so Sonia's been mucking around with it longer than I have. A little bit. Now, Windows Server is important for a lot of organization. It hosts a ton of different workloads. You know, it hosts identity. Yeah, networking, file sharing, remote desktop services. And that's the thing about Windows Server. It really is not just a piece of an infrastructure platform. It does provide so many services that it runs itself. And then you can put on top Microsoft applications, custom applications, containers, websites. And it's a really excellent general-purpose operating system that kind of gets forgotten a bit because it just does what you put it in there to do. So today, we're going to go through several things in this next section. What are we going to cover, Sonia? Let's start with modernizing the operating system. So if the servers have been around a little while, we need to get them up to one of the latest versions. We'll talk about why and the easiest way to do that. Then we'll look at securing the operating system settings. So going back and revisiting some of the things that you might have configured previously, that need a little bit of an update. And then we'll cover optimizing your file shares. So again, what can you do with that workload where you're sharing the files that people in your company make to make that a better experience? Absolutely. Now, one of the things that we need to, and one of the reasons we're talking about modernizing your operating system, is that a lot of people sort of deploy Windows Server and it works and they just, that works, right? So if it works, if you've been in IT long enough, you know it works, you're not gonna muck around with it. But we do have an end of support deadline coming up. And as you can see on this slide here, well, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are going to reach end of support October 10, 2023, which is less than a year from now. So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna quickly jump into a demo to show you how to migrate off an older version of Windows Server across to a new version, which is Windows Server 2022 running Server Core. What are we starting with, Sonia? Yeah, this is Windows Server 2008 R2. Now I know none of our viewers have got this version of operating system running in their environments anymore, but let's just pretend for a minute that we do have one of these really old versions. So what we're showing you here is a file server.  We've got Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus and Ned's dogs. Now what I wanna show you about this file server is not only these folders, but I wanna show you the permissions here. And you can see that the Jupiter group is assigned share permissions to that folder, the Jupiter shared folder and that the Mars group is assigned permissions to the Mars shared folder and so on and so forth. So the next thing we're doing is we're switching across and we're setting up a PowerShell session to our destination server. So we're gonna take this 2008 R2 server and we're gonna move it across to Windows Server 2022. So we've got a source server and a destination server and our destination server is Temp Adelaide. So that's when you've already prepared earlier, right? We're not doing an in-place upgrade here. You actually built that box brand new and fresh and we're gonna move all of the settings and files off the old box and onto the new one. Absolutely.  And you can see I've done a directory there and the directory's showing that on the eDrive, there's nothing. So just showing you this is our before and there's nothing sitting there at the moment. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to come into Windows Admin Center and in Windows Admin Center, we're going to select the storage migration servers. Storage migration service is a really cool tool that allows you to pick up one file server and drop all of the contents of that on another server. And then when you do that, it's also gonna pull across the identity of that server, all of the permissions of that server and all of the networking information of that source server. It's gonna drop it onto the other one. That's pretty cool because I can't just do that with an X copy or a Robo copy. It's not gonna take all of that server identity and port it over as well. Yeah, so what we do is we first go and we create a new job. So we select new job and we give it a name and we're calling it MIGFS ADL for Adelaide. Okay, then what we're going to do is we're going to provide some credentials. And then once we've provided the credentials, it checks whether or not we need any extra features to perform this migration. And then what we do is we choose our source device. Now, in this case, we're choosing that Windows Server 2008 R2 server. We select that, we click add. And then what we do is we validate that we can make that connection. And once we've performed that validation, what we then do is an inventory scan to find out all the information that we need to know about that source server. Now that we've done that, what we're going to do is provide the credentials to the destination server. So I specify the name of the destination server and I do a scan on that and I see the configuration of that destination server. Now that configuration of the destination server has the same volume structure. It's got a C drive and an E drive as the source server. That's going to make transferring those files really easy because I'm not saying move that share across to that volume, that share across to that volume. And it's gone then and looked at the inventory of that source server and said, right, here's all of the stuff that we've found on that source server. Do you want to move all of this across? Yeah, and I like the fact that you can deselect that, right? So we don't have to move everything and it's going to pick up some of these system level shares like the print folder that we don't need to migrate. So we don't need to move the print folder across. What we do is we then set up all of the transformation or the translation settings, how many retries need to occur, whether or not we need to install any extra features to get it to work. Then we go and then put in some final credentials. It then goes and checks. It installs the storage migration services proxy. It'll then do a validation. It'll check whether or not what we've asked it to do is actually same. We then start the transfer. When we start the transfer, it picks up all the stuff that's on the source server and moves it across to that destination server. And once that copy has completed, the next thing we can do is we can actually go and check that that has all occurred before we do the cutover of the name and identity six. So we've gone back to temporary Adelaide. We go into the E folder. We do a directory. We can see all of those folders are there. We can go into the NEDsDogs directory and we can see that files have also transferred across. Great stuff. So once we've validated that all the files have come across, the next thing we need to do is we need to take the identity of that source server and then bring it across and stamp it on that destination server and then rename the source server so there's no conflicts going on. Yeah, and it's not just the name. It's all of those networking details as well. And the reason that this is so important is because you might have custom applications in your environment that somebody has hard coded in an IP address or a server name. And this kind of change can break a lot of things but by literally assuming the identity on the new server of the old system, we're preserving this continuity so that when you make these changes, hopefully everything else from that legacy environment should still work because as far as they're concerned, it's the same server. So we've gone through all that process. The cut-overs occurred. We can then jump onto the newly renamed Adelaide server that's now running Windows Server 2022. We can jump down to the command prompt. We can open up Windows Explorer. We can go to the e-volume and you can see we've got exactly those same files, folders and permissions that we had when we started on Windows Server 2008. Okay, Sonia, we want to secure an operating system. How do we do that? Yeah, absolutely. So when we talk about security, we have this concept of defense in depth and what we're trying to do is make it as hard as possible through all of the different layers of the process and all the different layers of the technology stack. It's kind of like making sure that all of the locks in your house, everything's locked up tightly. You might have a safe that has some important documents in it and so we'll start by securing the operating system. What can we do at that level on the Windows Server to make it as tight as possible? And you can see on this slide here, we've got use server core. Make sure you only install the stuff you need to be on the server. Make sure you limit who has administrative access to the server. Turn on BitLocker to encrypt the drives. Turn on Windows Defender application control to control what applications are present. Turn on Microsoft Defender for servers to perform all of your anti-malware protection and then use secure core server technology. Now, if I wanted a hard and active directory, what do I do, Sonia? So it's really important to make sure that you're bringing your domain controllers up to Windows Server 2022 for the security features that are in there but it's also about going back and doing things like auditing and then disabling NTLM. Some of those older authentication protocols that were designed for a world that doesn't exist anymore. Minimize the amount of access and who's got domain admin rights and use things like group managed service accounts to provide identities for your services. Use local admin password solutions to manage local passwords on your accounts and then use Microsoft Defender for identity to pick up behavioral patterns and people authenticating against Active Directory. And that'll give you a good idea and that's where the other aspect of modernizing your Windows Server infrastructure is that you wanna start to adopt appropriate cloud technologies and the new versions of Windows Server and you should always be running the most recent, the most secure version of Windows Server can plug in to those cloud technologies. In terms of securing network communication, implement domain isolation policies and I'll explain what those are in a moment. Use privileged access workstations. So don't allow just anybody to use any computer to perform admin tasks. Make sure they're using a really locked down computer. Minimize the communication with the internet. Odds are, most of your servers on your on-prem network don't need to communicate with anything on the internet. They might need to communicate with a couple of Azure services, but that's about it. Order and disable older protocols such as SMB1 and then require things like SMB3 encryption and signing. So what we'll do now is a quick demo showing a connection security rule. Okay, so you can see here that we've got three servers sitting in an organizational unit and what we're gonna do is we're going to use group policy to apply a rule to those that limits how communication can occur with those servers. So what we do is we open up the group policy management console. Once we've got the group policy management console we navigate through the group policy management console to select that organizational unit that we've created called file servers. We create a GPO and link it in that location. We then go and edit that policy. Now we're gonna do two things in the policy. The first thing we're gonna do is we're going to go into the policy and disable NTLM authentication for those servers, which means that anybody who's authenticating to those servers can only use the Kerberos protocol to do so. And we do that by selecting this network security restrict NTLM incoming and say deny all accounts from authenticating. The next thing we're going to do now that this policy's been set is we're gonna create a connection security rule. And what a connection security rule does is it restricts communication to that server only to users and computers that have authenticated with the domain using Kerberos. So here we select isolation, we select require authentication for inbound connections and request it for outbound connections. And then we specify computer and user Kerberos authentication. We give it a name, we click finish and that policy is now set and ready to be applied. So now let's look at optimizing the file shares. You can use DFS namespaces to provide an entry point for your users that's consistent regardless of which server they're hitting in the backend. Use controlled folder access to only allow trusted applications to be able to act on those folders. Turn on D duplication to help you save some disk space and then systems insight also helps with that disk space capacity forecasting. And as well, you can use Azure File Sync to do some cloud tiering again to protect and free up some of that disk space management on your servers. And what we'll do now is we'll do just a quick demo showing how a file screen works. And file screens are a cool technology to have been around for a while that allows you to block certain file types from being written to file shares. We use file server resource manager to set that up. We go to file screen management. We select file screens. And what we do is we create a new file screen. So here we specify we wanna block executable files and we specify the path where we wanna block them. So in this case, we're blocking the Jupiter folder with the Jupiter shared folder on our file sheet. We click create and that applies. So let's demonstrate that working. You can see here we've got notepad.exe, which I've just copied from system 32 and it's an executable file. Now let me show you a normal shared folder. So here I'm navigating across to Adelaide 2 and I go to the Mercury folder. And what you can see is I can drop notepad straight onto that folder and it writes it there. So that's an executable file going there. What I can then do is go back to Jupiter where I put the file screen and I can't copy that executable there. So that's how a file screen works. So to summarize, Oren, we've covered quite a lot of points today, but it comes down to modernizing your operating system, getting them up to those latest versions for security and cloud capabilities. Going back and securing them by changing some of those operating system settings and also using those settings to optimize your file shares and your disk management. Remember, Windows Server is a fantastic platform for you, but you need to keep it up to date. Keep those end of support deadlines in mind and use them as a catalyst to upgrade your environment. Thank you very much for your attention.


Privacy, hybrid cloud, AI, big data, all of these things are running over each other in our products and in what's going on in the universities. What we try to do is break that barrier between the university and industry and open source. Our mission is to connect university researchers with Red Hat engineers who can help take that research and do the work that the grad students don't have experience to do, which is take the code and actually get it into an upstream project. Being able to cross that barrier in both directions is making for some really interesting work.


Ukraine did not receive some of the weapons it paid for and some donated weapons are unusable. Ukraine did not receive some of the weapons it paid for and some donated weapons are only good to be disassembled for spare parts. The New York Times wrote it citing two sources familiar with the purchase of arms in Ukraine, a high-ranking Ukrainian official and official documents of Ukraine's government. According to the newspaper, official Ukrainian government documents claim that as of the end of 2022, Kiev had paid arms suppliers more than 800 million US dollars for contracts that were not fully or partially fulfilled. Two of the newspaper sources involved in arms purchases for Ukraine said some missing weapons were eventually delivered and in other cases, brokers returned the money. One of them added that as of early spring 2023, hundreds of millions of dollars had been paid, including to state-owned companies for weapons that had never been delivered. Volodymyr Havrylov, Deputy Minister of Defense who deals with arms procurement, said there were cases when Ukraine paid money but did not receive weapons. According to him, this year the government began to analyze its past purchases and exclude problematic contractors. At the same time, the newspaper notes that problems are inevitable in such a large-scale arms purchase as in Ukraine. Many of the transfers from Western allies have involved modern weapons like American air defense systems that have proven highly effective against Russian drones and missiles. But in other cases, allies have provided stockpiled equipment that, at best, needed extensive overhauls. As much as 30% of Kiev's arsenal is under repair at any given time, a high rate, defense experts said, for a military that needs every weapon it can get for its developing counter-offensive, the newspaper reported. Ukrainian government documents show that the Ministry of Defense paid $19.8 million to an American arms dealer, Ultra Defense Corporation, to repair 33 howitzers. In January, 13 of these howitzers were sent to Ukraine but arrived unfit for combat missions, as stated in one of the documents. Ukraine accused the American company of failing to finish the job it was supposed to do by late December.


CHAPTER XI Miss Meadowcroft and I were the only representatives of a family at the farm who attended the trial. We went separately to Nairobi. Miss Meadowcroft had not said one word to me since the time when I had told her that I did not believe John Jago to be a living man. I have purposely abstained from encumbering my narrative with legal details. I now propose to state the nature of the defense in the briefest outline only. We insisted on making both the prisoners plead not guilty. This done we took an objection to the legality of the proceedings at starting. We appealed to the old English law that there should be no conviction for murder until the body of the murdered person was found or proof of its destruction obtained beyond a doubt. We denied that sufficient proof had been obtained in the case now before the court. The judges consulted and decided that the trial should go on. We took our next objection when the confessions were produced in evidence. We declared that they had been extorted by terror or by undue influence and we pointed out certain minor particulars in which the two confessions failed to corroborate each other. For the rest our defense on this occasion was, as to essentials, what our defense had been at the inquiry before the magistrate. Once more the judges consulted and once more they overruled our objection. The confessions were admitted in evidence. On their side the prosecution produced one new witness in support of their case. It is needless to waste time in recapitulating his evidence. He contradicted himself gravely on cross examination. We showed plainly and after investigation proved that he was not to be believed on his oath. The Chief Justice summed up. He charged in relation to the confessions that no weight should be attached to a confession incited by hope or fear and he left it to the jury to determine whether the confessions in this case had been so influenced. In the course of the trial it had been shown for the defense that the sheriff and the governor of the prison had told Ambrose with his father's knowledge and sanction that the case was clearly against him, that the only chance of sparing his family the disgrace of his death by public execution lay in making a confession and that they would do their best if he did confess to have his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. As for Silas he was proved to have been beside himself with terror when he made his abominable charge against his brother. We had vainly trusted to the evidence on these two points to induce the court to reject the confessions and we were destined to be once more disappointed in anticipating that the same evidence would influence the verdict of the jury on the side of mercy. After an absence of an hour they returned into court with a verdict of guilty against both the prisoners. Being asked in due form if they had anything to say in mitigation of their sentence, Ambrose and Silas solemnly declared their innocence and publicly acknowledged that their respective confessions had been wrung from them by the hope of escaping the hangman's hands. This statement was not noticed by the bench. The prisoners were both sentenced to death. On my return to the farm I did not see Naomi. Miss Meadowcroft informed her of the result of the trial. Half an hour later one of the woman's servants handed to me an envelope bearing my name on it in Naomi's handwriting. The envelope enclosed a letter and with it a slip of paper on which Naomi had hurriedly written these words. For God's sake read the letter I send to you and do something about it immediately. I looked at the letter. It assumed to be written by a gentleman in New York. Only the day before he had, by the nearest accident, seen the advertisement for John Jaggo cut out of a newspaper and pasted into a book of curiosities kept by a friend. Upon this he wrote to Moorwick Farm to say that he had seen a man exactly answering to the description of John Jaggo but bearing another name, working as a clerk in a merchant's office in Jersey City. Having time to spare before the mail went out, he had returned to the office to take another look at the man before he posted this letter. To his surprise he was informed that the clerk had not appeared at his desk that day. His employer had sent to his lodgings and had been informed that he had suddenly packed up his handbag after reading the newspaper at breakfast, had paid his rent honestly, and had gone away nobody knew where. It was late in the evening when I read these lines. I had time for reflection before it would be necessary for me to act. Assuming the letter to be genuine, and adopting Naomi's explanation of the motive which had led John Jaggo to absent himself secretly from the firm, I reached the conclusion that the search for him might be usefully limited to Narrabee and to the surrounding neighborhood. The newspaper at his breakfast had no doubt given him his first information of the finding of the grand jury and of the trial to follow. It was in my experience of human nature that he should venture back to Narrabee under these circumstances and under the influence of his infatuation for Naomi. More than this it was again in my experience I am sorry to say that he should attempt to make the critical position of Ambrose a means of extorting Naomi's consent to listen favorably to his suit. Cruel indifference to the injury and the suffering which his sudden absence might inflict on others was plainly implied in his secret withdrawal from the firm. The same cruel indifference pushed to a further extreme might well lead him to press his proposals privately on Naomi and to fix her acceptance of them as the price to be paid for saving her cousin's life. To these conclusions I arrived after much thinking. I had determined on Naomi's account to clear the matter up, but it is only candid to add that my doubts of John Jago's existence remained unshaken by the letter.  The striking of the hall clock roused me from my meditations. I counted the strokes midnight. I rose to go up to my room. Everybody else in the firm had retired to bed as usual more than an hour since. The stillness in the house was breathless. I walked softly by instinct as I crossed the room to look out at the night. A lovely moonlight met my view. It was like the moonlight on the fatal evening when Naomi had met John Jago on the garden walk. My bedroom candle was on the side table. I had just lighted it. I was just leaving the room when the door suddenly opened and Naomi herself stood before me. Recovering the first shook of her sudden appearance, I saw instantly in her eager eyes, in her deadly pale cheeks that something serious had happened. A large cloak was thrown over her. A white-hanker chief was tied over her head. Her hair was in disorder. She had evidently just risen in fear and in haste from her bed. What is it, I asked, advancing to meet her. She clung trembling with agitation to my arm. John Jago! she whispered. You will think my obstinacy invincible. I could hardly believe it even then. Where? I asked. In the back yard, she replied, under my bedroom window. The emergency was far too serious to allow of any consideration for the small proprieties of everyday life. Let me see them, I said. I'm here to fetch you, she answered in a frank and fearless way. Come upstairs with me. Her room was on the first floor of the house and was the only bedroom which looked out on the back yard. On our way up the stairs she told me what had happened. I was in bed, she said, but not asleep when I heard a pebble strike against the window-pane. I waited, wondering what it meant. Another pebble was thrown against the glass. So far I was surprised, but not frightened. I got up and ran to the window to look out. There was John Jago looking up at me in the moonlight. Did he see you? Yes, he said, come down and speak to me. I have something serious to say to you. Did you answer him? As soon as I could catch my breath I said, wait a little and ran downstairs to you. What shall I do? Let me see him and I will tell you. We entered her room, keeping cautiously behind the window curtain I looked out. There he was. His beard and mustache were shaved off, his hair was close cut, but there was no disguising his wild brown eyes or the peculiar movement of his spare, wiry figure as he walked slowly to and fro in the moonlight, waiting for Naomi. For the moment my agitation almost overpowered me. I had so firmly disbelieved that John Jago was a living man. What shall I do, Naomi repeated? Yes, to the door of the dairy open, I asked. No, but the door of the tool-house round the corner is not locked. Very good. Show yourself at the window and say to him, I am coming directly. The brave girl obeyed me without a moment's hesitation. There had been no doubt about his eyes and his gate. There was no doubt now about his voice as he answered softly from below. All right. Keep him talking to you where he is now, I said to Naomi, until I have time to get round by the other way to the tool-house, then pretend to be fearful of discovery in the dairy and bring him round the corner so that I can hear him behind the door. We left the house together and separated silently. Naomi followed my instructions with a woman's quick intelligence where stratagems are concerned. I had hardly been a minute in the tool-house before I heard him speaking to Naomi on the other side of the door. The first words which I caught distinctly related to his motive for secretly leaving the farm. Mortified pride, doubly mortified by Naomi's contemptuous refusal and by the personal indignity offered to him by Ambrose, was at the bottom of his conduct in absenting himself from Morwick. He owned that he had seen the advertisement and that it had actually encouraged him to keep in hiding. After being laughed at and insulted and denied, I was glad, said the miserable wrench, to see that some of you had serious reason to wish me back again. It rests with you, Miss Naomi, to keep me here and to persuade me to save Ambrose by showing myself and owning to my name. What do you mean, I heard Naomi ask sternly. He lowered his voice but I could still hear him. Promise you will marry me, he said, and I will go before the magistrate to-morrow and show him that I am a living man. As I refuse, in that case you will lose me again and none of you will find me till Ambrose is hanged. You are villain enough, John Jago, to mean what you say, as the girl raising her voice. If you attempt to give the alarm, he answered, as true as God's above us, you will feel my hand on your throat. It's my turn now, Miss, and I am not to be trifled with. Will you have me for your husband? Yes or no? She answered loudly and firmly. I burst open the door and seized him as he lifted his hand on her. He had not suffered from the nervous derangement which had weakened me, and he was the stronger man of the two.  She struck up his pistol as he pulled it out of his pocket with his free hand and presented it at my head. The bullet was fired into the air. I tripped up his heels at the same moment. The report of the pistol had alarmed the house. We two together kept him on the ground until help arrived. John Jago was brought before the magistrate, and John Jago was identified the next day. The lives of Ambrose and Silas were, of course, no longer in peril, so far as human justice was concerned. But there were legal delays to be encountered, and legal formalities to be observed, before the brothers could be released from prison in the characters of innocent men. During the interval which thus elapsed, certain events happened which may be briefly mentioned here before I close my narrative. Mr. Medicroft, the elder, broken by the suffering which he had gone through, died suddenly of a rheumatic affection of the heart. A codicil attached to his will abundantly justified what Naomi had told me of Miss Medicroft's influence over her father, and of the end she had in view in exercising it. A life income only was left to Mr. Medicroft's sons. The freehold of the farm was bequeathed to his daughter, with the testator's recommendation added that she should marry his best and dearest friend, Mr. John Jago. Armed with the power of the will, the heiress of Morric sent an insolent message to Naomi, requesting her no longer to consider herself one of the inmates at the farm. Miss Medicroft, it should be here added, positively refused to believe that John Jago had ever asked Naomi to be his wife, or had ever threatened her, as I had heard him threaten her, if she refused. She accused me, as she accused Naomi, of trying, meanly, to injure John Jago in her estimation, out of hatred toward that much-injured man, and she sent to me, as she had sent to Naomi, a formal notice to leave the house. We, too, punished ones met the same day in the hall, with our travelling bags in our hands. We had turned out together, friend LeFranc, said Naomi, with her quaintly comical smile. You will go back to England, I guess, and I must make my own living in my own country. Women can get employment in the States if they have a friend to speak for them. Where shall I find somebody who can give me a place? I saw my way to saying the right word at the right moment. I have got a place to offer you," I replied. She suspected nothing so far. That's lucky, sir," was all she said. Is it in a telegraph office, or in a dry good store? I astonished my little American friend by taking her then and there in my arms, and giving her my first kiss. The office is by my fireside, I said. The salary is anything in reason you like to ask me for, and the place, Naomi, if you have no objection to it, is the place of my wife. I have no more to say, except that years have passed since I spoke those words, and that I am as fond of Naomi as ever. Some months after our marriage, Mrs LeFranc wrote to a friend at Narrowby for news of what was going on at the farm. The answer informed us that Ambrose and Silas had emigrated to New Zealand, and that Miss Metacroft was alone at Moorick Farm. John Jago had refused to marry her. John Jago had disappeared again, nobody knew where. Note in conclusion. The first idea of this little story was suggested to the author by a printed account of a trial which actually took place, early in the present century, in the United States. The published narrative of this strange case is entitled, The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Bourne for the murder of Russell Colvin and the return of the man supposed to have been murdered by Honourable Leonard Sargent, ex-Lutonant Governor of Vermont, Manchester, Vermont, Journal, Book and Job Office, 1873. It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the improbable events in the story are matters of fact taken from the printed narrative. Anything which looks like truth is, in nine cases out of ten, the invention of the author, W.C. End of chapter 12, recording by Lucy Perry in Bath on July 3rd, 2010. End of The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins


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I'm going to divide my talk into three sections. Firstly, I will say a bit about the euro briefly. Secondly, I will say a bit about the shifting power relationships in Europe. And thirdly, I will say a bit about Britain and its relationship with Europe. On the euro itself, I mean none of us know what's going to happen. My guess is it'll survive for two reasons. Firstly, trying to actually organise its dismantlement would be incredibly complicated, but it would cause tremendous chaos. Secondly, because the political leaders in Europe are very strongly committed to keep it going, including crucially most German leaders. But there are two reasons why I'm not entirely certain that the euro will survive. One of them is that there's an intellectual ideological rift in the European Union about the nature of the problem.  The doctors don't agree on the nature of the illness or which particular remedies are needed to cure the illness. And that is the situation at the moment. You have the Germans and a few others, or the mainstream German view, which is that austerity and structural reform are enough to cure the eurozone's ills, that moral hazard is a very serious problem and therefore you shouldn't have too big a bailite funds or too generous bailite schemes or too much financial support. And that the problem is all about the deficit countries, that the surplus countries such as Germany are not part of the problem at all. And then on the other side you have those who are more Keynesian in their approach, who think that too much austerity imposed too quickly is counterproductive that it will lead to such a decline of economic output that the debt burden grows and becomes unsustainable. This school believes that Germany is part of the problem because of the very peculiar structure of its own economy being a country that consumes very little, relatively little, that imports relatively little and has had low levels of investment. And this school obviously thinks that being Keynesian that you need to think more about demand, growth and investment and therefore they favour more generous rescue mechanisms, schemes such as Eurobonds and so on. Now, these two philosophies have been battling each other out for the last couple of years and I suppose if one is optimistic one can see there will be a kind of compromise that the Germans will have their fiscal compact and everybody will sign up to budgetary austerity but in return the election of Sarkozy, sorry of Oland I mean, will lead to the Germans to accept a greater emphasis on growth, investment and demand and we can talk about how we do that but it's very hard, there's no silver bullet, there's no easy answers but I guess there's talk of project bonds, greater role for the European Investment Bank using EU funds to promote growth more directly and spend on infrastructure and possibly role outside non-European financial institutions spending money on infrastructure projects and so on but that is the optimistic way of reconciling these two rival teams of doctors. The second reason to be concerned is democracy and the annoying thing that people don't always vote the way they're supposed to vote and if we are optimistic and the doctors agree on the remedies required can they persuade the people to follow them? Can Europe's leaders, if they think of the perfect scheme to save the eurozone can they get everybody to support it? I do worry that a referendum in one country or the parliamentary vote in another or a general election in a third could mess up the schemes to save the euro and obviously you must be thinking about this in Ireland with your own referendum on the way and as far as I can see, if the eurozone survives there will be more centralisation of economic policy making more, a greater role for super national institutions less economic freedom for individual member states of the eurozone and that concept of centralising power in super national institutions is not terribly popular with most of the peoples of Europe. Germany is a good example where I think most of the elite want to do what it takes to save the euro but do the German people go along with that? How will the Dutch vote in their general election in September? How will the Italians vote in their general election a year from now? I don't know. My own view is, and I'm just purely guessing, I have no insight and knowledge on this probably Greece cannot stay in the euro because of this democratic point. I think that Greece seems to be in a significantly different picture from the position from Portugal or Spain or indeed Italy or Ireland in that the political and social situation in Greece is so inherently unstable that I'm not sure the Greek people can really put up with year after year of relentless austerity and shrinking output and it does seem very very difficult to introduce serious structural reforms in Greece but I mean that's, I may be wrong about Greece and I don't claim to know what is best for Greece I just think there's a serious question mark about Greece's ability to stay in the euro which it may be they should leave but I wouldn't say that about any other country currently in the eurozone. Secondly, let me think about some of the power shifts in the European Union. Germany up, France down, the commission sidelined. Well I think for the first time in the history of the EU Germany is in charge in a way it's never been in charge before. This comes at a time when Germany is more a certificate of its own interest than it's ever been before. I wouldn't say more nationalistic I'd just say it no longer believes as it did when I was a journalist in Brussels 20 years ago that what is good for Europe is good for Germany and vice versa. There has been a progressive shifting of the German view they think that what's good for the majority of member states may not be good for them. This is caused partly by the generational shift those who are adult during the second world war like Helmut Kohl have retired and it's partly because of EU enlargement bringing a lot of poor countries into the European Union which has made the Germans see that poor countries coming to the Union want their money and their interests are not necessarily the same. I think the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis have highlighted a feeling in Germany that they want our money and that our partners cannot be trusted and this has made the Germans less willing to do what their colleagues partners wish them to do and of course we have seen over the last five years a big divergence of economic performance between France and Germany in terms of France's share of export markets its public debt, its employment figures Germany has powered ahead of France which has led to a real imbalance which is why Germany is basically in charge these days as far as I can see on all the key issues of the eurozone crisis for the last two years or most of the key issues the Germans have got their way should there be a new treaty nobody wanted it except for the Germans but there is a new treaty that's what is one example. Just a few qualifications of what I've said firstly I think the Germans are very reluctant leaders they don't really like many Germans don't like the fact that they're leading the EU because with leadership comes responsibility and some Germans are rather slow to appreciate that leadership does bring responsibility you have to think about the other countries in the union certainly in foreign policy the Germans are not really leaders anyway there's been very little assertiveness in that area on the economic side secondly more alarmingly there is an eye detector paranoia amongst some German leaders about Anglo-Saxons if you talk to people in the CDU and the FDP they really seem to believe there is an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy to undermine the euro led by the economist of the Financial Times Larry Summers, Paul Krugman leading Anglo-Saxon economists they really think that we want the euro to fail which isn't actually true for most I mean even many people in my country Britain which is pretty Euro skeptic most people in Britain didn't want to join the euro I did but I was exceptional most people in Britain who didn't want to join the euro still hope the euro survives because they think the economic cost of a break up would be very great the last thing I say about Germany is that to its credit there is a real debate in Germany although I've talked about Germany as an entity there of course isn't a German view there's a mainstream German view but really there are three different German views there's the Bundesbank view and the FRZ view which is the view I parroted somewhat which is austerity and structural reform what all you need to do and that economics is a branch of moral philosophy and so on which actually it is in Germany a branch of moral philosophy and that is one view it's the Bundesbank's view and I do believe and I have some reason to believe that some senior figures in the Bundesbank do not want the euro to survive in its current form it's not everybody's view in the Bundesbank I know but there are factions in the Bundesbank who never wanted the euro to be set up in the first place and they do not want it to survive that is not of course a mainstream German view the second school in Germany is the SPD and the Greens and the Foreign Ministry who want the euro to survive who want Germany to rebalance its own economy and reflate to some degree to create more demand to help people in the rest of Europe and they have a more generous view they think Germany has a responsibility to save the euro's own and to put its hand in its pocket and then the third view is Merkel in the middle who as far as I can tell doesn't have strong views of her own she's very pragmatic she's concerned about next month's state election or next week's parliamentary vote and sort of pragmatically models along listening to people around her and ultimately I believe she does want to save the euro so I hope that in the long run and I think it's likely the Germans will do what it takes ultimately although Germany has become more assertive in recent years I think that Germans identity of who they are and what their role in Europe is and what their place in history is is of the people who are committed to European integration so even if I'm right they don't understand all the economics as perfectly as they should they will do what it takes to save the euro very briefly a word on France which I've already said quite a lot about it by talking about Germany I think that not everybody in France is yet aware that France is no longer leading the European Union and its co-leadership role of the previous 60 years has really ended for now at any rate Sarkozy's strategy has been to hug the Germans close in the hope of influencing some of the details of EU policy but I think there is a danger that when the French realise that they are not leading the EU anymore then they will become significantly more Eurosceptic because the sort of the pro-European case in France has been we are building Europe in France's image it is a way of enhancing our voice and weight in the world I don't know Oland well I've met him but I can't say I know him well and I don't know what he's going to do about the euro and the EU I think he's somebody who is pro-European without knowing much about it without being very interested in it and my guess is that he will ratify the fiscal compact but he will insist on a new growth strategy in Europe which is the right thing to do in my view that sounds fine but there is also a risk that he may pursue policies on debt and borrowing which are seen by the markets as not serious and there is perhaps a danger that he may do in two months what Mitterrand did in two years between 1981 and 1983 when he basically tried to reflate in one country until the market stopped him and Helmut Cohen, Jack de Law persuaded him to do a U-turn these days markets move quicker than they did 30 years ago and I just don't know I mean if he appoints people like Michel Sapa former finance minister Jean-Pierre Jouillet who used to work for Jack de Law as he sort of key prime ministers, finance ministers, advisers then we can expect the moderate economic policies fiscal restraint that's fine but if he sort of is serious about attacking finance capitalism which he said he will do and follows a kind of hard left agenda around financial markets and thinks he could ignore them as he said he wants to tame the markets if he really thinks he can do that then France is going to be in trouble pretty quickly so we'll just wait and we'll see but I mean the good news about Alon if he wins is that I think he will get everybody to sign up to a growth strategy the European Commission one of the significant long term trends is that the commission is losing power, authority and influence it has been doing so over 20 years when the days of Jack de Law it overbeared it became too high on mythe and ever since the member states been trying to win powers back particularly the larger member states particularly France and Germany and in the last few years I've been truly shocked to hear the kind of rhetoric about the commission in the Elise and in the chancellery in Germany they're much ruder about it even the British Eurosceptics are I mean the French criticise it for being an agent of Anglo-Saxon liberalism but also for not understanding the need to foster new technologies and protect European industries and apply tougher reciprocity orientated trade policies and so on the Germans just complained that it's always trying to tell them to sort out their land as banks and reduce their state aid and so on but part of the commission's weakness now is its own fault and it does tend to focus on the wrong priorities sometimes asking for a big pay rise for its staff last year it wasn't terribly clever PR the quality of commissioners is pretty low to be honest compared with how it used to be leadership seems weak easily buffeted by the wins but much of the criticism is unfair much of the criticism is simply because the commission is doing its job of policing the market enforcing competition policy and we've seen the commission sidelined in the creation of the new bailout mechanisms in the fiscal compact treaty it is true the commission has been given a significant role in policing the new treaty and in the so-called six pack arrangements also the commission has a role in enforcing fiscal discipline I suppose what I'd say is that the legal powers and competencies of the commission have grown but its authority, its credibility, its real power has diminished because member states, particularly the large ones are so hostile to it I think this matters because the commission is the body that cares about the single market it is the body that stands up for the small countries and prevents the creation of a very goalist Europe and it does consider the wider European interest without the commission would we have had energy security and climate change put on the user gender as we have in the last few years I lament the weakness of the commission even though I think it's partly self inflicted only partly Finally, let me say a few words about Britain on the way out My own view is as somebody who wishes Britain to stay to play a strong role in the EU my own view is that there's probably a 50% chance that Britain will leave the European Union in the next 10 years The December the 9th summit when Britain famously did not sign up to the fiscal compact is not in itself proved hugely damaging yet there has been an effort to reach out to the British and engage them by many of our partners and the actual final text of the fiscal compact was a defeat for Sarkozy who tried to create a very intergovernmentalist fiscal compact with a small role for the commission a new economic club that could talk about any kind of economic policy including the single market and thanks to the Germans and others those ideas were shot down as I said before the commission plays a big role in the compact which is in the British interest of course because the commission will try and preserve the single market though of course people in Britain got this muddled up and they seem to think that the commission being involved was banned for British interest but not everybody in the Tory party understands that the commission for its faults is trying to help the market so in the short term not too much damage done in the long term I think the Eurozone crisis is going to increase the gap between Britain and the rest of the European Union because we're going to see a politically integrating Eurozone core of the EU which is not congenial for the British we've always thought of the EU as basically an economic club as a single market with a few bits added on and the more it becomes a political union the less we like it even if, as is the case with the fiscal compact we're not directly affected by the centralisation of budgetary policy I think the creation of a Eurozone core as the Germans and I say a political union will lead to pressure in Britain for a referendum because even though technically the EU act of 2011 which says there should be a referendum if any new treaties transfer powers to the EU technically the provisions of that act would not necessitate a referendum if the Eurozone core integrates because it doesn't transfer powers from Britain to the EU in practice it will lead to such pressure because the skeptics in Britain will argue that the nature of the EU is changing its character is changing it's a different kind of club not the kind of club we voted on in 1975 in our referendum on EU membership then what really matters for Britain's position that you at the moment is the state of the conservative party and the Tory party is split between Eurosceptics who want to stay in the EU which is George Osborne and David Cameron and probably William Hague and Eurosceptics who want to leave the EU which is a majority of Tory party members and probably at least half the backbenchers in the House of Commons and I think that the Tory party is absolutely crucial and although, as I said, David Cameron doesn't want to pull out and therefore he doesn't want a referendum he'd be opposed to a referendum on membership because the referendum would split the Tory party and be a distraction from other more important business I do think there's a risk that future generations of Tory leaders may well have a different view on a referendum Boris Johnson, who could well be a candidate to replace David Cameron he's the mayor of London at the moment he wants a referendum on EU membership for example he's a populist and anyone standing for the leadership of the Tory party would probably have to offer a referendum to members in order to get those members to vote for them as leader and it's as simple as that I fear to be fair to the Tory party the Tory party itself is just reflecting a shift of public opinion in Britain on the EU even if its Tory party members feel their Euroscepticism more strongly than the British people as a whole the British people have become more Eurosceptic last year for the first time in British history that I'm aware of a clear majority of British people said that they would support leaving the EU until a year ago it was about 50-50 now it's 60-40 in favour of leaving now why is this, well of course the obvious reason, the main reason for the shift is the Eurozone crisis it's very bad PR for the EU EU leaders are seen to be incompetent one emergency summit after another fails to solve the Eurozone's problems do we really want to be part of a club run by incompetent people that's part of it the Eurosceptics have developed a new narrative it used to be that the EU is an overwhelming super state that will take away British sovereignty the EU is all-powerful that narrative doesn't work very well because the EU is so obviously weak and pathetic rather than all-powerful so the new narrative is this Britain is an inherently dynamic entrepreneurial nation this huge great European millstone around our neck he's weighing us down holding us back red tape from Brussels bureaucracy, slow moving stagnant economies we need to free ourselves from the shackles of slow moving continental Europe and hitch on to the dynamic BRICS economies that's nice in theory until you look at the trade figures 7% of British exports sorry got too excited 7% of British exports went to the BRICS well the four BRICS not the five BRICS, the four BRICS Brazil, Russia, India and China last year and of course many people like to say that Britain exports more to Ireland and the BRICS put together which is technically true but I gather that quite a lot of those exports are then re-exported elsewhere so it's a slightly misleading figure so that's the new narrative another factor affecting British views of Europe is Michel Barnier, the single market commissioner who is a very controversial figure of Britain because he doesn't really believe in deepening the single market he's personally opposed to liberalising services industries because why he was the man in France who led the referendum campaign on the constitutional treaty in 2005 the reason why the yes campaign was defeated in 2005 was the fear of the Polish plumber it was all about the liberalisation of services in the bolgestine directive so he's personally stung by that and he's doing everything he can to make sure there's no more liberalisation of services though most serious economists that I know think that that is the best way to create jobs in Europe to liberalise the digital economy either and on the city of London he is coming up with rules and regulations some of which appear to be very damaging to the city and the British watering some of these done but not all of them done necessarily he's also in favour of the financial transaction tax as are the French and German governments if implemented a financial transaction tax would probably destroy a lot of the trading business in the city of London it would go to Hong Kong or New York or Singapore so such factors are one reason why the sort of financial elite in Britain are becoming more Eurosceptical even though to be fair to Barney of course his views on the city of London which are perhaps quite hostile are probably no different from those of many British people who do blame the city for a lot of the economic problems but on my point is that he's alienating some of the sort of political and financial elite with these measures migration is another issue that has really made the British more Eurosceptic as you know in Ireland we, you and the Swedes were the only people to open our borders in 2004 probably a million and a half century Europeans came to Britain didn't push up unemployment at all it probably did push down wages for unskilled labour and basically it's a class divide perhaps people thought it was great but people in labouring jobs in Britain didn't think it was great and are pretty unhappy about this and they blamed the EU for the surge of immigration and another factor pushing the Eurosceptics helping them is that they have some very effective lobbying groups there's a group called Open Europe which is well funded quite efficient publishing some quite serious work they send a sort of daily briefing to MPs telling them all the wicked things that the EU is doing and there isn't any equivalent pro-European organisation this is because British businesses don't really see the risk of us leading the EU they're rather able as well anyway and I haven't yet managed to persuade many business leaders to put millions of pounds into a new pro-European lobby I'm still trying but I haven't succeeded a footnote on Scotland my own view is that Britain is more like to leave the EU than Scotland is to leave Britain as the opinion polls suggest but if Scotland was to leave Britain and Britain is still in the EU then Britain is more like to leave the EU as a result because without the Scots you'd have a built in Conservative Government almost all the time in what's left of Britain and the chances of referendum would be greater and the chances of a referendum to leave the EU passing would be greater without the Scots who are a little bit more pro-European than the English a little bit more pro-European conversely if Britain with Scotland leaves the EU then Scotland would be more like to leave Britain because I think the Scottish people would not want to be part of a Britain that left the EU anyway finally my last couple of sentences and I'll stop on what should the British Government do I mean you're not the British Government but if you were the British Government this is what I would say and not just the British Government but what should pro-Europeans do clearly one thing we need to get businesses to Britain to speak out and explain that they think we get more FDI in Britain because of membership of the EU we need to get trade unions to speak out most of them support membership but for reasons I don't entirely understand they're very quiet and they don't say anything about the EU except that they welcome maternity leave and the agency workers directive and the working time director but they don't really say anything about the EU and we need more responsible politicians for decades now politicians including those in the Labour Party have been those who are quite pro-European don't like to admit this in public because it's a way of losing votes as simple as that all the focus groups show that pro-European policies don't win support so even though the Liberal Party are well known to be pro-European and they're in government they don't say this in public Nick Clegg has never given a speech on the merits of the EU membership because his media advisers were told not to do it so you have a very you have a tilted playing field where the anti-Europeans make a little noise and the pro-Europeans keep quiet for fear of losing votes so if this goes on we'll be out so that's why people like Ed Miliband who I believe is pro-European people like him are going to have to start speaking out and even Tory ministers are going to have to speak out too when the EU does things that are to its credit such as a successful process of enforcing an oil embargo against Iran or sanctions against Syria or helping with democratisation in Burma or a trade agreement with South Korea or negotiating peace between Serbia and Kosovo when the EU does good things British ministers need to say this it's a good day we might persuade William Hague to try and say these things which I think he does to his credit acknowledge that the EU has a role to play in some foreign policy issues but he doesn't yet make speeches saying the good things that the EU does in these areas so what the British government should do is change its rhetoric have a more positive rhetoric about the European Union it should come up with some positive ideas on the future of the EU not just the single market not just enlargement which is frankly dead perhaps in areas such as the neighbourhood policy defence, energy, climate Britain can contribute and then the British government needs to build alliances we've been very bad at doing this I suppose to their credit both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have made a fair effort to have good relationships with France and Germany that's sensible but they've ignored the little countries most EU countries are little countries and if you go to Denmark you find or many central European countries you find governments who say we'd love to be close to the British we'd love to work with the British on this issue but we never see them we always have French ministers passing through French officials but where are the British ministers British ministers don't make time to travel to other smaller European countries not very often, not sufficiently often nor do senior officials and we don't invest enough in building relationships I mean the prime example of this is Poland when Poland joined the EU it was a British ally a British friend, we helped to get it into the EU now there is almost no link between Britain and Poland Poland has fallen into the Franco-German sphere of influence partly because if they find our Eurosceptic policies very difficult to stomach but partly because we just didn't invest in the relationship we haven't cultivated politicians in Poland made visits to them that's just one example so I think if we had positive policies built alliances then the current government even the current government could show the British people that it works to the British people's advantage and it doesn't always work against us to our disadvantage, most British people see it as working to our disadvantage they see it as something driven by France and Germany and the Brussels bureaucrats against British interests and the British political elite helped by businesses and trade unions need to try and change that perception and if they don't we're out, thank you


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about actually running a live trading room you know I would walk away and do nothing today you know I got a lot of ideas from a lot of you they're all 50 50 crop shoots and I really don't like any of them you know it's there's a lot going on today the Fed is going to speak and the market may not have any reaction till then so then we would look to do something this morning that is on its own the only thing that I like on its own it's Oracle which is pretty much opening neutral here I think this is the only thing worth watching Macy's I think it's already gone the PFE not crazy about that either definitely don't want to go long even though crowd is up we just we didn't do that trade and we missed that trade the second time around we did the first round in crowd the second round in crowd we missed and I think if you need something with the market today you're you're not going to get any movement here in the morning so Oracle is definitely definitely definitely on its own and doesn't need the market and you saw that yesterday so I'm gonna sit here and watch this for a few minutes so we can get a quick set up in this I might do it if not we'll go over a couple things here and we'll just come back tomorrow you know right now this isn't moving oh Macy's is going you did Macy's are you want to do Macy's you can do it I'm just passing just just passing here on this just don't want to do anything today that's 50-50 and we should really never do anything that's 50-50 but Macy's is going if you want to do it it's already going so Oracle is just really a little volume here for some reason I may be doing nothing and Babba was down but Babba just has not not been a good day trade lately it's been a crappy day trade good put good option bad day trade lately it's been it's trying to go here this is more volume than Oracle actually just can't get excited about it in today and that's the way the cookie crumbles so stopping the Oracle is gonna be 60 101 60 let's do 60 by 60 do it do it right now if you want to do it just down to 100 and see if we can go somewhere with it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it we didn't hit 100 yesterday here we go Oracle better than nothing and then we get the fed out tonight and then we see where we are tomorrow and I forget if Adobe's tonight or Thursday I forget here we go here wow no hesitation here thank God we got something here Oracle under 100 oh six you could be out a nice little move here hand of the button here for one more push an Oracle damn it don't bounce do you not bounce at all oh six we'll look at tonight when we're out of this I don't want to move off of this cuz I want to get out of this soon but I Adobe's one of these nights I forget I forget if it's today or tomorrow Adobe Adobe we're not gonna day trade that that would be an option so I don't know wait we have to see what the market does today it could be going long tomorrow I have no idea we might we might we might be going long on the last day of the year oh sex Oracle Oracle you're up right here you get out I just think it's I think it's gonna go through 100 today this morning this market is crazy and I can't wait to see what happens but we're not going long today so you can be out of the Oracle or you could still be in it we could put this shop at break even should we do that just to be super duper super duper super duper conservative because if that was it I don't want to lose today let's do that put the stop at break even in Oracle it's boomer bust if I get out of this flat that's it I'm done not doing anything and we could have done nothing we could get on this right here not taking any chances seeing what the market's doing which is completely insane by the way and everything that's happened is insane so I had flipping the different channels this morning there was like one thing that one person said I agreed with today so I'm not the only one that thinks certain things whoa did you see that invisible tick whoa it just didn't did anybody just see that whoa anyways I agree with one person today flipping one person of all the people's all the commentators and look at Tesla when we're done but again that's was pretty much a market stock it's not gonna go anywhere it's never gonna go anywhere until the market decides well what it wants to do here's the Baba okay so plan of action is here to watch to see if it breaks 100 it really did go to 100 I just didn't get out it happens so quickly I put this topic break even so I missed my exit here if it was 100 if that was a low of the day or I'm gonna get stopped out and I won't lose and I won't make money and I can live with that I don't want to do is lose in a day where we're waiting for the Fed and there really was nothing good I simply love this gap from yesterday that's the only reason we're even doing this today that's all I reason it on and I knew it would go to 100 I knew it the only reason it didn't yesterday is because it ran out of time the market up and open till 6 o'clock at night it would have gone to 100 so that's that didn't see the hawk yesterday but I was busy I might have missed him gotta look from today it's a beautiful cold New York morning I see the hawk for Christmas here Oracle we're gonna get it we're gonna get it soon and we're gonna get it fast twice this is crazy it's completely insane market for sure will make new highs before the end of the year now if the Fed says something today in the markets has a bullish reaction it's not that far off we talked about this yesterday and I never thought that would happen but it will if what he says today the market takes as a plus which would be what the market thinks is gonna happen since the last six weeks but two months even back but here we go oracle hand of the bun for a call one more person rather than our day is done we'll come back out of tomorrow and today you got to watch it two o'clock if you're in stuff you gotta watch if you want to watch for tomorrow you can watch or if you don't want to watch come back tomorrow see where we're at here we go Oracle here we go here we go look at that it did touch 100 what the heck it just moved so fast I didn't get out I should just get out here it's annoying so I gotta watch Baba today I don't watch the market today I don't watch Oracle today I didn't get out of this it touched 100 I thought it was gonna break it and it bounced again machine machine machine machine machine machine we saw that yesterday we saw that all day yesterday with the numbers if you were in it if you were watching it we saw that in the morning we saw that in the open we saw that in the open when it opened late I was a machine well I can't lose my stops a break even ask me any questions let's go over whatever you want here I'm not gonna worry about it goes down again to get out if not I'm not gonna lose in this it bounced too quickly there to exit and you want to get out of it here you can any questions from anyone anybody want to go over anything again gotta watch stuff that you're in it today for sure anybody get out of the Oracle anybody still in it I definitely definitely put this top of break even if you're still in it it's just too bouncy too jumpy here and again we could have done nothing today because there wasn't anything good except for this except for this actually what did the crowd do crowd finally got to 250 no actually got to 250 it looks like yesterday here we are Oracle one more push here that's what I wanted week we're having the last training week of the year here the markets and we're shorting and we're having to find everybody here it's still going