Okay so let's look for the check again at $43.80. Here's what we have. We had this liquidity. We traded below it. We had the liquidity showing up again. This was the most accepted price on Friday and the auction above it was incomplete.  And typically when you have that kind of buying and we close like that, we anticipate continuation. However, based on the geopolitical situation I could, you know, we have to be prepared for anything, of course. Of course with trading you always have to be prepared. That's why having good risk management is a plan is really important. So we want to watch here now because we have a couple of pieces. We have this liquidity. We have the naked volume point of control. We currently have high volume right in this area as you can see from this little bump right here. So that creates kind of an over over on there for us. These are not trade recommendations. However, we could potentially come and rotate lower from here. How far down nobody knows. We might come back here. We might not come back anywhere. It's very hard to say. These are not trade recommendations. We want to look at structure and we're going to look at where we are. The naked volume point of control is an artifact that was left behind from Friday was the most accepted price. So it's natural for the market to often come back and check that. In other words, was it too high yesterday? Friday? Was it too low? So now we've checked it. We took out stops at yesterday's high, Friday's high. And now the question becomes, can we move higher after this event or are we going to rotate in here? See we had sellers here, you know. So now we have to just see. This is really an interesting level right here to observe. And these are not trade recommendations. So let's take a look. See if we can see inside this. So this is your area right here. This volume right in here. You have the naked volume point in control. We have this consolidation. Okay. So we're looking for the behavior. Let's look at the order book. You can see the book pressing down and these guys pulling. Okay. See if we can see anything else in here. Trend is up. So anything here, any kind of counter rotation is a counter rotation, which means it may just be picking off these stops under here. You know, so we have to see. So this is important level. And what happens in here is important trend is up. So in my world, there are no short trades for me because I want to be aligned with the intermediate time frame, which is the long, but right here is important to see what happens because now remember we have a target above and we have this level right here with the mark of returns to an important level. So we checked it from below the first time. We came below it. Now we're back up checking it again. So this this area is important for potential continuation or counter rotation. Let's see. And again, these are not trade recommendations. Here's the alignment here, here, here. Okay, everybody tracking with me. So you might want to grab a screenshot of this. In fact, if you're new here, grab a pen and a piece of paper because these are things phenomena market based phenomena that you may want to grab a screenshot of write the time down. And the key elements are this liquidity, this volume, this liquidity back in the book, and this the naked it was a naked volume point of control from Friday, which was the most accepted price. We went above it. We went below it. We're checking it from below again. And the market may not need at this time to go higher. The trend is up. So anything we get off this would be a counter rotation. Initially, after that, no idea. But the trend is up. So this is really looking a way I think about these is if I had gotten into this, which it was not on my mind to do. Let me just look over here. This would be a target potentially. And then your next level up would be taking out this high. So there's got it's got a bit of, you know, some obstacles to get through, and then going up to 4400. So that's the outside potential. So here's the obstacle. So if you've gotten along price check, this is important to take your scale and manage your trade off of here. Do you guys understand why we're having this behavior here? Can you see the alignment with the items I just articulated here, here, here. That's a lot of elements, don't you think? Does this make sense? If it doesn't make sense, ask me, why are we seeing this behavior here? Considering that we pointed it out before it happened. Is that is that something that you guys can use? In other words, does the thinking the process? Is there logic in this process? Okay, here's what we have. This was important area. It was this was the primary target in this scenario, the naked volume point of control. Okay, we had yesterday's high, which is also a viable target when you're this close. And we took it out. Okay, now I'm not someone who picks a high of the day, not so skilled at that. But let's look what happens. So this was important. This is important. This is alignment. This liquidity. Now, this comes down. There's really nothing I can, you know, tell about it. I see this at 70. We know 70 was important on the way up. You guys remember 70 over here. I keep track of these, because this is significant. It's not the same as this other stuff in here. This was significant. And that is significant. I mark them. So I would put a, you know, a mark over here. And I mark them. Now the fact we go through it. Now I'm looking at it as resistance. We get through it. So what's the next level of notice the liquidity comes back in around here. But this so what's on top? This is the important item right here. Because this is a price check. The market is asking and in an auction, let's think in auction theory. We were lower. The market went up and checked the most traded price. We had Fridays high. The market, assuming there's shorts in here, there's going to be stops up in here. And there you see them just because it's over the high. People get short. They put their stop over the previous high, depending on their timeframe. If we don't get buyers above there, then there's a potential to counter rotate retail trader behavior. Remember, if you're long, what are you feeling when you see you take out the high, and you're looking for something higher, and then it doesn't do it. Now you look here. This back at this liquidity, we break this was support. I see these as support breakthrough pullback. That's the test extension. Breakthrough pullback. Resist. See, now this is not a brick wall, but this is sort of, you know. So now we're below it. So what's the propensity?  Of course, we don't know. But we get the retracement. Okay. And as I was discussing over in here, what did we have? See, this is kind of how you put pieces together. We have this. We have this volume. There was chop, chop, chop. This volume, and let me see if I can show it to you over here. That's this volume right here. So this is an auction right here, right here. Chop, chop, chop. We go up, we come down, chop, chop, chop. Chop, chop, chop. This chop, chop is creating volume. And what it is is basically other than the extreme to the outside, it's going, are we going to go back up? Are we going to go down? Are we going to go up? Are we going to go down? And it forms this high volume node right at the naked volume, at the former naked volume point of control. This is a high volume area.  That's representing this volume in this area. That's what that high volume node is. Is everybody with me so far? Just want to make sure we're aligned before I go on. Okay, great. It's good for you. Okay. Anybody else have a question on how this level is being created and why it's significant? Let's move on. So we identify the level. Now, what happens? Now, at this point, we come back to where 70. Everybody see that level? Okay. And the liquidity comes back in. That's something I look for. Now, all it is is these are reference points. You know, this is something like, okay. So now what? Well, look what happens at this level. We get some buyers. Okay. But they don't get too far. Now, we don't know that. This is the thing about trading. You know, you don't know. So you got to start out with what you know. And the thing is, you know, you don't know. So this structure, which represents this volume over here is resistance, this here. So the bottom of this, well, we don't quite get there. We get close. No cigar. Within what about a point? Three quarters of a point. This is your obstacle. That's what this represents right here. Obstacle. Obstacle. So if you're taking along here, and this is not a trade recommendation. Here's here is the way you work this. You guys interested in how you work this? Yeah. Now, write this on your sheet if you've never heard this before. Retail trader behavior. Think like a retail trader. Don't act like one. So if we're taking this against this, if that's something that you work with, and it's not a trade recommendation, we're just looking at behavior, where is the closest swing where retail traders will have their stops? It's right here. So something you might think about for a trade plan is where do you scale? Well, you know, you're not going to get in there. You're probably getting in somewhere over here, right? So stops would be first layer of stops for those who are short would be this swing, this little swing. And I'm sure some of it would be targeting this. So if you're they're targeting, you see the absorption here. Okay, we get some iceberg buying here. Let me just take a look and see what it is, you know, around 145, 150 icebergs, nothing monumental. But that was what that liquidity was sitting there. And there's our bounce. So this would be the scale. Because you want to go into those stops. And then you'd be going for next target up, which would be at 80. And it wouldn't get there.  So you'd be risk neutral if that's part of your trade plan. Does that make sense? So now it breaks under there. Okay, now what? Well, we still have this high volume area above us. We know this is an important level. We already took out yesterday's high. And we still have a target up above us. So that much we know. So what do we have? Well, now we're taking out these stops at this swing. And we have the potential even to go higher. But this is a potential obstacle. Now remember where we broke from just going to go back over. It was here, this liquidity here broke it, checked it went higher, fell under it, checked it went lower. So this level, this 80 is important. And we have alignment. So now we're all caught up. Okay. And we're saying this is an important area and a potential area for reversal. Correct. And here it is. So that in my mind is how you kind of put pieces together. So if you had gotten along, this is your obstacle. And at least it would be a scale or an all out or, you know, primary obstacle. And then it's what happens after that. Do we make a new high? Do we get up to 4400? You know, but this is the primary item right here. And then the sellers take over. Let's see if we can look inside here and see anything. Any questions on why this might have been an important area? And why I was saying look for the cell, you know, and trading a lot of it's just kind of being like a chess player, you know, it's thinking about not only the behavior that took place at a location, but why is it important in what might happen? Because we don't know what will happen. But what might happen? Now this is very two sided, you know, and there's not, you know, a significant amount of structure right here. Buyer, no buyer into the liquidity. It's very subtle. Let's see what else we can see. Again, into the liquidity. There's really nothing going on in this liquidity. They're not lifting. So you can see it. But here, let me just scrunch this a little more. This is its own little consolidation. You see it. And there's the volume that's being created in this structure right here. When we break below the volume, that becomes your over under. So this. So let's see what it looks like. It really doesn't give you any pullback. So you would have to initiate really on the break of the structure. It's kind of a breakout. So, you know, you'd be, you know, your risk would be up above here. And if it fits your trade plan to your risk reward ratio, then of course, it's viable. And going down when we break down, where are all the retail traders stops? Isn't it the IB high? Let's go take a look what's going on here. So this would be from here to the, well to the VWAP, then the IB. After that, let me just take a look and see what else we've got here. We have the VPOC below. These are not trade recommendations. We get through the IB, then you're going to the VPOC potentially 4340 ish. Remember, the IB is important. For a lot of reasons, the one reason the thing I like about is the statistics around it, also retail trader behavior, we can anticipate stops at the IB and re to end buyers at the IB and a counter rotation. If we get through it, the next stop is 4340.


Manufacturers, I think, certainly have the right to have systems on the vehicles that can monitor what the operating conditions were. I don't know that I have a particular opinion about who owns it, and if law enforcement demands it, perhaps if there is resistance, one can imagine soon legislation will come to open it up. So it might be a moot point.


Hey, what's up guys, welcome to our trending reviews. So this is not serial. This is the Google Pixel 4 official release box. I'm gonna give you a unboxing on what comes inside this and equally, what doesn't come inside the box. So let's just get straight into it. Okay, let's go ahead and open up this serial box. So just to give you a quick design, so you've got a few labels here to say this is a brilliant camera so you can see into space, you can do quick gestures and Google assistance. So those are the main highlights. So if you have a look actually on the side of the box for the nutrition facts, this is pretty cool. They've given you some of the specs. So you can see a little bit about the memory, the rear camera, the front camera and all the other information about what is included in this and some ingredients about what the Pixel 4 can do. So really making this look like a serial box, that's pretty good. Just a barcode on the right hand side.  So this really is a colorful kind of box, especially for kids, it would really stand out. But let's go ahead, open the serial box and see what's inside. All right, so just pulling this out. Okay, got a little handle there and just trying to see how to open this. Okay, so you can see that there's some cutouts here in the box. Let me just quickly try and show you that on the camera. I'm gonna go ahead and open the cutouts by pressing into them and see what's behind it. That's two. So let's go with the small one first. Oh wow, in fact, there is some cereal here. You can actually eat this. So they've got some cereal with the Google Pixel logo on there as well. So crunchy fruit loops, whatever this is. So you can actually go and have this in the morning with your breakfast and there's actual real ingredients on there. So that's pretty cool.  And in the second cutout, it's going to be the phone. Here we go. So thank you by Google. So I will have to lift this up pretty carefully and there we have it. So those are the only two things in this. So I'll put that to the side and there we have the Google Pixel 4 box. So let me go ahead and now open this up. So I've bought this in Oso Orange, which I think looks really cool. There we have the phone. So let me open up the cover on that. Very smooth looking slick. So you've seen a lot of this already online. So I won't go too much detail about the phone itself.  So put that to the side. Now the other things that come in the box. So you have your user guide with the SIM card tray opener. Then you also have the USB-C power cable. So you have the normal USB-A to USB-C switch adapter to allow you to transfer all of your data across from your old phone. I will be doing that for my Samsung and you also have the USB-C power brick. So that's everything that comes in the box. It's a shame that Google does not provide any headphones because that does come standard nowadays. And this is a guest to promote the new Google Pixel Buds. So you'll have to keep an eye out for that and purchase those separately. So lacking in a lot of features in the box, just very basic plug and charger. That's probably the only thing you're going to use and just getting straight into the phone. So I hope you found that unboxing useful. I'm gonna do a lot more reviews on the Google Pixel 4 XL and I'm gonna do comparisons with iPhone 11 and the Samsung phone. So keep an eye out for that. I also have a dedicated video coming out on the astrophotography on this Google Pixel 4. So I'm sure you're gonna love that. So make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss that. And I hope you found this quick unboxing video useful. I hope you subscribe and I'll catch you guys at the next one. Take care.


Mae'r ddaodd wedi cyd-facol. Mae'r ddaodd, ben Macpherson, yn gwychio, a'r ddoddau cairbylliant sydd o'r lliw methu hefyd. Mewn cyd-facol yn ddaodd. Mae'n mynd i gyd ddaodd ar gyfer blaen ac yn ddig ה�wyddiad. Mae'n mynd i gyd iddyn nhw y wedi teimlo. Mae'r ddaodd y ddydig yn gwychio'r ddoddau cairbylliant Social Security special rules for end of life bill. I appreciate that this debate was scheduled at short notice. That was due to the UK legislation being progressed rapidly. Given the extent to which the UK bill has been expedited and the upcoming parliamentary recess for our parliament, a legislative consent motion is needed to ensure that we align with the UK Government's approach. That is expected under the terms of the Scottish Government's agency agreements with the Department for Work and Pensions. The UK Government's bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 11 May and serves to change the UK Government's current definition of terminal illness for the purposes of disability benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions. In the DWP system, currently those who are estimated to have six months or fewer to live due to terminal illness can have their disability benefit applications fast tracked so that they can start receiving their payments more quickly. The UK Government bill will expand their definition of terminal ill to those who have fewer than 12 months to live rather than six months. The UK Government expects that change to result in a widening of fast tracked access to disability benefits for terminal ill people. Disability living allowance, personal independence payment and attendance allowance are all affected by the UK Government bill. Provision relating to disability benefits falls within devolved competence by virtue of the Scotland Act 2016 and the amendments that the 2016 act made to the devolution settlement. Therefore, the UK Government bill in question today relates to devolved matters, triggering the requirement for an LCM. Until we fully implement our Scottish replacements, disability living allowance, personal independence payment and attendance allowance are being delivered by DWP on behalf of Scottish ministers under an agency agreement. Therefore, a requirement for those benefits to be administered consistently across the UK until case transfer completes and our agency agreements with DWP cease. Of course, adult disability payment, which replaces disability living allowance and personal independence payment in Scotland, is being rolled out in stages and is currently available in six local authority areas. Another seven areas will be added in July for new applications ahead of full national introduction at the end of August and the on-going case transfer process. At the point of full roll-out on 29 August, when adult disability payment is available nationally—this is an important point—anyone in Scotland who becomes terminally ill while in receipt of PIP or DLA will have their entitlement automatically transferred to Social Security Scotland and will benefit from the Scottish definition of terminal illness, which I will come on to shortly. Going back to the UK Government bill, this will likely have limited impact on those currently in receipt of DLA or PIP in Scotland. It will impact on people in receipt of or applying for attendance allowance ahead of the introduction of our pension age disability payment, which will replace attendance allowance in due course. Encouragingly, the UK Government's bill brings the new definition of terminal illness in the UK closer to the definition that we have introduced for disability benefits here in Scotland, but the UK definition will still be based on a fixed time period with regard to life expectancy. That is in contrast to the Scottish Government's definition of terminal illness as part of the delivery of Scottish forms of assistance, including child disability payment as well as adult disability payment. Our definition is based on clinical judgment that does not include a time limit on life expectancy, meaning that people approaching the end of their life are more easily able to have their applications processed quickly than with the Scottish definition. I have said so far that I consider a legislative consent motion to be the right course of action in order to maintain alignment with the UK Government's legislation, as is expected under the terms of our agency agreements. Providing legislative consent is therefore the most pragmatic and appropriate course of action. I therefore move that motion in my name. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. If you would be like Deja Vu, I have not had a similar debate on a different issue but around social security last week. Last week, the minister felt that I was maybe slightly partisan in my comments, so I will try to be slightly more constructive this week. However, at eight worth point nine, particularly around clause one of the bill going through Westminster moment, is that the reason why we are having to debate this for DLA PIP and attendance allowance is because there has been a delay in implementing ADP and other Scottish benefits here in Scotland. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you, Mr Belfer, for taking intervention. Just on that issue that he mentioned, does he accept that the devolution of social security benefits is a joint programme of work between the Scottish Government and the UK Government, and the delay on the delivery of some of our devolved benefits has been because both Governments had to re-prioritise during the pandemic period? I do accept that the pandemic has had an important factor in regard to the delay, but even before the pandemic, there were statements in the chamber to say that those benefits were going to be delayed anyway. I simply point it out as a factual comment. The second interesting point is that the UK Government seems to be able to bring forward legislation fairly speedily when it is required. I wonder why it takes the Scottish Government quite so long. Last week, the minister indicated that there simply was not time for a bill to be brought forward in this Parliament, but that does not seem to be the case in Westminster. I think that we have to look at the time that those emergency types of bills do require and can we do it quicker in this Parliament. My third gentle point to the minister for the record is that, with due respect in regard to the definition of terminally-ownedness here in Scotland, it is not a Scottish Government definition. It was a definition brought forward by this Parliament and, if I may claim credit, it was my amendment that brought it forward. It was agreed unanimously by the whole Parliament. I do appreciate that the Scottish Government is now introducing it and taking it forward, but the definition can be owned by all five parties and by all MSPs that were in this Parliament last time. If I can be a wee bit more constructive in my final couple of remarks, I think that it has been really helpful for the minister to be able to define exactly where people apply if they sadly get a terminally-ownedness definition post-August. I suppose that my concern is how we get that information out from this chamber to those that need it, either within the CEP, advice shops and the other third sector and also just generally within the Scottish public understanding, but we do have a new definition that there is a faster way to do it and that you can get both higher care and higher mobility quicker if you go through that procedure. I would be interested if the minister could, perhaps in his closing remarks, just say if there is any advertising going to take place over the summer and, if so, how will that happen? We are misspences come decision time. We will be voting for that. We think that it is a positive step forward by the UK Government, and I do hope that it will get the support of every member within the chamber. Let me start with the substance of the motion and the impact on people. That is about lives and terminally-ownedness, possibly the time when we need our Governments to be the most sensitive and responsive. For that reason, I and we on the benches welcome the move to extend the period in which a person who is terminally ill can qualify for special rules for terminal illness exceptions. I agree with the minister that those matters do constitute legislation in which this Parliament has competence. In fact, in Scotland, as has been said, Social Security Scotland has its own special rules for terminal illness, under which there is no qualifying period. A policy designed to ensure that people are provided with the support that they need when they need it. A policy that I commend the Scottish Government for having and for the diversion from UK Government policy in that regard. However, I am afraid that I am also again a little disappointed. Firstly, because the people in Scotland are not yet feeling the full benefits of social security, devolved social security, not because we need more power in that area, but because the Scottish Government is still letting people down by failing to manage the powers that we already have. The Parliament passed social security legislation in 2018, yet over four years later, only a handful of local authorities have opened applications for the benefits. New applications will not be available to everyone in Scotland until at least the 29th of August. Full transfer of those currently on PIP over to ADP is not expected until 2025. 313,620 people on PIP have been left at the hands of the DWP, facing delay after delay, as a result. Those people have been led, I will. I appreciate Pam Duncan-Glancy taking the intervention. I just pose in a constructive spirit the question to her again, which I have done before. We all want to move to implementation of those benefits as quickly as possible on full-case transfer, but what are the Labour Party's suggestions within the budget constraints of the Parliament and the technical and human challenge of undertaking those exercises in the execution of Government policy? What would the Labour Party have done differently to have done things quicker? We are going as quickly as we can, and I am not hearing any constructive suggestions of how we could have done this quicker or could do this quicker in the future. I thank the minister for that intervention. It is possibly the first time that I have heard the point about the budget in relation to PACE, which is interesting, although I think that there are a number of things that we could do differently in terms of the administration. I also suggest that we need to work closer together with other parliaments in the UK. The fact that we have a UK Government who did not consider that a legislative consent motion was needed and a Scottish Government who did, and we will support that motion, as my colleagues have already said, to show that there is significant confusion, but yet those people are still being led up a hill and left waiting for years and years and are now being told to wait for more for substantial change. The same is true of child disability payment, despite new applications being fully operational here. Safe and secure transfer will not happen until 2023, and the Scottish National Party Green Government has not set out a timetable for attendance allowance. In the meantime, it is no wonder that there is disagreement between the Governments on what they need consent for, because they have been incapable of working together at PACE, and that is the point that I have put to the minister. We need to work at PACE, work together, but instead they have created a confused system where we have devolved powers to Scotland, the Scottish Government has sent some back, asked the DWP to take care of others and chosen a few to make some progress on, so it is clear that it is a messy arrangement and it is not helping anyone. Frankly, it seems to me that nobody has a clue and it is the Scottish people who are paying the price. How on earth can they expect people in Scotland to navigate this if they can? Nonetheless, we will support the motion today, but I stress that I would far prefer to spend parliamentary time on social security legislation that would fundamentally and materially improve lives of the people of Scotland, rather than having to debate constitutional intricacies caused by delays and confusion leaving people without the support they need. It is not good enough that neither Government can get this right. This is the second time in a week that we face the same type of motion and the same constitutional tug of war, because neither Government is able to establish who has responsibility for what. I recognise in closing that the policy and ideological differences between the SNP Government here in Holyrood and the Tory Government in Westminster. However, although social security remains a shared responsibility, it is of the utmost importance that Governments talk to one another, engage with each other and stop wasting time on disagreements about it. That is the best chance that we have of getting things right and doing it quickly for the people of Scotland. I am grateful to members across the chamber for their time and contributions to the debate. Although the Scottish Government has taken a very different approach to the UK Government's definition of terminal illness, as decided by the Scottish Parliament, the UK Government bill represents a positive change that will benefit those applying for disability benefits administered by the DWP who are terminal ill. That is why I am requesting this legislative consent motion. It is required in order for the UK Government to make changes to the definition of terminal illness in Scotland. Just as a point of clarity to Pam Duncan-Glancy, there is agreement between the Scottish Government and the UK Government on this legislative consent motion. It is a different situation to the last legislative consent motion that we considered together. In fact, the UK Government has formally requested this legislative consent motion that we are considering today. Pam Duncan-Glancy, I thank the minister for taking the intervention and thank you for that clarity. I do really appreciate that. The confusion that has resulted in this last week is because of such a confused situation that we are facing. It really is incumbent on all of us to try and work together to make sure that we do the best that we can to roll out social security payments in Scotland as quickly as possible. I would agree in that spirit, and that is certainly how I engage with UK DWP ministers and Scotland office ministers in this process. In terms of something that Mr Balfour raised around process, the only alternative to a legislative consent motion would have been to introduce equivalent Scottish primary legislation, but to take that approach we would need to have the legislation in place at the same time as the UK bill, which was only introduced seven weeks ago to make sure that it comes into force at the same time. Given the extent to which the bill at UK level has been expedited, that would have been extremely challenging, given the other pressures on this Parliament's legislative programme. Without parliamentary approval for this legislative consent motion that we are considering today, those in receipt of applying for DWP disability benefits in Scotland would not be able to take advantage of the widening of the terminal illness definition. I appreciate the point, but I think that what we are doing today is the most practical process in the circumstances. I touch on the point that Pam Duncan Glancy made around speed. Just for clarity, I was not in any way insinuating that budget was a factor in the process of delivering either the rolling out of new benefits, devolved Scottish benefits or the case transfer process. As a member of the Social Justice and Social Security Committee, Pam Duncan Glancy will be aware that Social Security Scotland has made very clear that we could not have gone faster in this process and that in order to deliver safe and secure delivery and benefits in the way that have been designed with those with lived experience and with all the stakeholder engagement and expert and independent advice into the process, we have done this at a strong pace in order to deliver a high-quality service and a better service as we continue to undertake case transfer. Of course, we introduced seven benefits that are not available elsewhere in the UK, and that has been a significant improvement. Just also briefly, Mr Balfour raised a really important point around awareness. When we deliver new benefits, including through the phases of adult disability payment, we engage with local authorities and stakeholders through our local delivery teams to raise awareness, but all of us, as MSPs, can play a really positive role in that. I will write to all MSPs and Scottish MPs in the coming days to encourage all of us to do what we can through the summer recess to make sure that we raise awareness of what is available for people and for them to apply. Of course, the Government does that on an ongoing basis and will continue to do it as proactively as we can, but we can all make a difference here together. In conclusion, it is important that those who are terminally ill in Scotland benefit from the change that the UK Government's definition of terminally illness will create. That includes those in receipt of attendance allowance and those adults who will apply for DWP benefits in the short time between the UK Government bill coming into force and the end of August when adult disability is introduced nationally. The legislative consent motion before us today will ensure the continued delivery of UK Government benefits on our behalf while we continue the safe and secure transfer of people to the respective forms of Scottish assistance. I thank Parliament for considering that matter today and look forward to working with colleagues as we continue to support people who are receiving disability assistance in Scotland and colleagues across the summer in order to ensure that we raise awareness of what is available to support people. I hope that Parliament will back that motion in my name and the legislative consent motion. That concludes the debate on social security special rules for the end-of-life bill UK legislation. It is now time to move on to the next item of business.


As you certainly know, the General Assembly of the United Nations consists of all the member states, each having one vote at the Assembly. The General Assembly has very wide functions and as under Article 10 of the Charter it may I quote, discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present Charter. And of course, later in the course when discussing the rules relating to international peace and security, we shall see the interplay between the General Assembly and the Security Council. And we shall also closely study the powers and the functions of the Security Council and the legal effects of its resolutions. In contrast with its very wide functions, the General Assembly has limited powers. Of course, it has some administrative powers on matters internal to the UN and for instance, under Article 17 of the Charter the General Assembly approves the budget of the organisation. Under Article 18 and Article 23 it elects non-permanent members of the Security Council. Under the statute of the ICJ, which is part of the Charter, it takes part to the election of the judges of the Court. However, outside those few internal administrative powers, the General Assembly has no power to take binding measures on member states. The General Assembly is not a parliament of the world, it does not make law for the planet as it may only make recommendations to member states, not decisions, recommendations. As we shall see later in the course, this is in sharp contrast with the powers of the Security Council. Therefore as a matter of principle and outside the internal administrative scope of its responsibilities, the General Assembly and the resolutions it adopts are not binding under international law. Therefore, they should be considered as political documents rather than as legal instruments. Resolutions of the General Assembly offer a clear example of unilateral acts of an international organisation lacking any legal effect because the basic instrument establishing the organisation, in this case the UN Charter, because that basic instrument says so. Of course resolutions of the General Assembly can have an important political impact and this is why states often spend a considerable amount of time and energy lobbying and negotiating every single word of certain resolutions addressing a specific crisis in the world or a specific subject in more general terms. But as such, again, those resolutions are not binding as such. However, and despite being deprived of any binding character as unilateral acts of the UN, some resolutions adopted by the General Assembly may nevertheless convey rules of international law and this is because they reflect pre-existing customary rules. In other words, some resolutions of the General Assembly can be considered as having a declaratory character. They declare, they make explicit rules of customary international law that exist already. As mentioned earlier, a clear example of this phenomenon is to be found in Resolution 2625 of 1970 which is entitled Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning friendly relations and cooperation among states. As I said earlier, that declaration has been considered in several cases by the ICJ to reflect customary international law. And of course not every resolution can be said to reflect customary rules and on a case-by-case basis one must pay special attention to the object of the resolution, the words it uses, the debates leading to its adoption and the political support it enjoyed when being adopted. Was it a unanimous or near unanimous vote or were states deeply divided along political or geographical lines? Did they make declarations about the legal content of the resolution and what did they say? Does the resolution use verbs like must or rather encourages, shall rather than should, etc. On the other hand, some General Assembly resolutions may not reflect customary international law on the very day of their adoption, but they may help to bring about new customary rules by the fact that they encourage states to behave in a certain way while at the same time expressing a certain collective opinion-yuris. For instance, it may be argued that Resolution 1514, on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, that this resolution was not really conveying existing customary rules when it was adopted back in December 1960. However, it expressed a strong collective opinion-yuris of states and encouraged the practice of decolonisation that was already underway. So much so that 10 years later, when Resolution 2625 was adopted in October 1970, it was very clear by then that the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples understood as the right of colonial peoples to become independent states, as we have seen, that this principle had undoubtedly become a principle of international law, that is the basic rule of customary international law. To conclude this video, let me sum up by quoting from an advisory opinion of 1996 relating to the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, where the ICJ said the following, and I quote, the court notes that General Assembly resolutions, even if they are not binding, may sometimes have normative value. They can, in certain circumstances, provide evidence important for establishing the existence of a rule or the emergence of an opinion-yuris. To establish whether this is true of a given General Assembly resolution, it is necessary to look at its content and the conditions of its adoption. It is also necessary to see whether an opinion-yuris exists, as to its normative character, or a series of resolutions may show the gradual evolution of the opinion-yuris required for the establishment of a new rule.


Whoo, I felt good about that one my friend Brandy's back yard. Good morning Brandy How's it going? So this is my friend Brandy And you've done the tour divide race We can talk about that later, but for now we have tea Brandy made me gingerbread spice tea, and now I'm excited for Christmas time. Who are you my friend? Who are you? You're so cute. You want to come with me? Mira's gone now, so we need a replacement. You want to go? Yeah That looks good. What is this? These are some mehams Brandy how often did you get breakfast like this when you raced raced to the vibe? I would say never Yeah, I pretty much Packed up got on the bike and started eating candy bar, so unfortunately that was That was the thing. It wouldn't inspired you to do the this route The route goes right past the house literally right down this Road here, so I'd see people coming through as I housed some of them that came through and Yeah, I just The image that comes to mind is really dirty dusty people with these the biggest bright white smiles ever And I was so intrigued by that like they came from Canada and they're so happy and Just really seemed really interesting to me of like what what's what's behind all that? And uh, yeah, yeah, so and you found out I found out. Yeah. Yeah What was your experience like? um The racing part of it was um much harder that I I guess anticipated in the sense that it um It's tough to be hurrying and not sleeping and Also trying to enjoy the whole experience at the same time But it was really fun also to push myself in that way like I hadn't Try to ride as much as I could every day for you know that many miles ever and So it was just it was just really different than my typical bike pack experience trying to race it And you did it in 25 days. This means you were going over 100 miles a day. Yeah average 110 And the last day because as you know, like southern New Mexico can get so hot I just um, I just went straight through for over 200 miles Which was just huge for me and rode it all night long, which I'd never done and it was About 6 a.m. Reaching the border was one of the craziest experiences of my whole life And you got third place for women third woman. That's pretty exciting. Wow. So that's the u.s. Canada border U.s. Mexico. Oh, that's the u.s. Mexico border That's you man. You look psyched that's six in the morning pretty Pretty psyched. I'm pretty psyched for breakfast. I haven't eaten anything that looks so good on this whole trip Usually it's junk food. Thank you so much brandy. This is absolutely incredible. Cheers to you And actually, you know where I'm headed today. Where where am I headed?  Nice. Look at this guy. I'm pretty sure you want to go with me. Don't you? All right guys. Thank you so much This was so amazing and rio is great to meet you Dana Kevin john mira I'm all alone. I haven't been alone since the first three days of the trip Wow, it's kind of a weird feeling but i'm excited just to just to be out here with myself and my own thoughts head in south Thank you so much brandy and rio. That was wonderful And man, what a great town this is I'm excited to come back and explore a little bit more Man, it is a beautiful morning There is not one cloud in the sky. This is the colorado. I know and love And as always no crash ease no flat ease no whammies my body feels so refreshed and well fueled after that meal that brandy made me the one thing about this ride is that good food options are very rare I've been eating more junk food on this ride than any other bike tour ever There just isn't a lot out here. You know you hit a small town convenience store and it's candy bars and chips and soda and My body can only take that for so long whoo But i'm powered by kale and quinoa today like a good boulder hippie All right, i'm heading up marshall pass now and on my map i can see very tight squiggly lines and that always means you're either going up something steep or down something steep in this case we're going up you know it's steep and the cars aren't going much faster than you gaining out's too quick staying with other people especially close dear friends it's a chance to bond and go through hard things together and experience nature and beauty and rainstorms together and it really brings you together but i also love riding by myself it gives me a chance just to be with my thoughts completely and be completely present in the moment and just focus on my breathing and my pedaling and just look into the left and to the right listen into the leaves blow in the wind so cycling for me is a little bit everything and that's why i love it i love riding with buddies and i love riding alone but one of the problems of being on your own is you don't get to share your stupid jokes with anybody you have to make yourself laugh which is harder to do here's a tip when you're climbing a long pass get off your bike and check out the flowers it always grounds you all right i made it that was a great way to start the day a nice gradual uphill it was long i was riding uphill for like an hour and a half now i'm at about i think 10,850 feet top of marshall pass feels good feels really good and what feels even better is knowing that i'm going down for a long time this is kind of crazy i just popped out in a little town called sergeants and there are more campers here at rvs than i've ever seen in my life it is friday i guess everybody's heading out for the weekend us coloradans really like to get outside i guess but this is unbelievable this is sort of camp central for sure i'm not a huge fan of riding on highways but sometimes you got to do it to connect yourself to the beautiful dirt roads in the middle of nowhere whenever i hit one of these roads i pedal as fast as i can to get off of it highway god that was like 10 miles of highway a lot longer than i thought but now i'm going into the middle of nowhere it's my happy place check it out oh yeah you know what i love hate about wind it changes and right now i'm loving it because it's at my back blowing me down the road oh it's so nice after fighting headwinds all day it's like a gentle touch on my back just nudging me along come this way ryan you have places to go so i don't know exactly where i'm riding to today there's no town nearby so i'm just gonna ride until i feel like i'm good i've already ridden about 75 miles feel great and i'm gonna find myself a nice campsite and sleep under the stars right now right now is the most pleasant moment of the day so far this road is beautiful it is completely still no more wind and i just feel like i'm being hugged right now by the mountains this road's kind of narrow i feel safe sounds kind of weird but that's how i feel right now and i just ate an awesome cliff bar so that's always exciting little sugar rush the squiggly lines are back on my bike computer that means i'm going up that's all right good way to finish the day i'm feeling pretty strong about mile 85 right now user mira john kevin are you kidding me oh my god look at this campground and it says support for gdmbr specifically us they're in space one trail magic wow let's go check this out i don't quite know what i'm riding into but i saw a sign out there with my name on it hello are you kidding me ellen rose ryan van duzer nice to meet you brother i know you this is amazing yeah oh my gosh oh i don't wait to see your bike here it is here's me and my bike you've been waiting yes we have been waiting had you had you know i was coming because we watched by what do you mean had we know we watch all your videos we watched you in vaha we watched you and go from durango to moe oh man and we've watched you uh drive out you know ride around with dana we just watched you with everybody so we were when you said you were coming said where we're going oh this is amazing so that's why this really is amazing i can't believe it i've had a long hard day and here you are trail magic oh what do you have the all lecroy you are incredible because it was on sale well i love lecroy what else this keeps on getting better now they just handed me chips and salsa oh there you go hmm i'm so happy and they have two cute little doggies hi guys what are their names a patsy client is the white one bucko one says the black one bucko we're sorry we didn't meet him johnny cash after we realized he was the man in black oh yeah a patsy client she's like the best do you mind if i take one because i miss mirah take as much as you want if you want to sleep with one yeah i might have to sleep in my bed i have i have a question were you gonna camp here anyway or did you specifically come we came to see you you thought we were coming no we knew you were coming so we came to get you and we'd see everybody else i'm sorry everybody else isn't here no we came to see you okay good all right good yeah everybody else was a special bonus because we've come for three years and we've met so many wonderful people from the duty body yeah how many people have you served today sandwiches and stuff eight eight eight people yeah oh that's sandwiches uh treats water yeah everything and why do you do that because we love bikes and we love people and and we're retired and we can go camp all right i'm going to show you this really cool airstream trailer look at this and you have this awesome kitchen what are you making right now we got spaghetti and meatballs tonight oh baby yeah how long you've been riding bikes i don't know you know i started really riding training for brackbrite really in 13 okay my sister-in-law said i want to go do this thing and in iowa i go what that's what most people's responses so i went and it was the most fun thing ever yeah you you were constantly passing people and being passed all day long and smiling oh my god i met more people it's the weirdest thing it really is and it's so much fun alan you can sleep in my tent if you want i might do it i i i'm too old to sleep on the ground anymore oh what is that for later my friend oh that is what i'm talking about oh yeah and then you have like a little bathroom here a bathroom that's pretty cool look at this wow look at this this is so stylish they look kind of small from the outside but they're pretty big and this is your bedroom look at that oh and you have a shower and a shower no way look at that shower is cool and marshal loves that that i can take a shower to ride the bike yeah so you don't stank it up oh man and that concludes our tour of the airstream oh my dear lord look at that this is incredible thank you so much let's go to sunday sauce that is heavy too family style dinner in a campground in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere life is beautiful this is a watch candy colorado alan what have you done yeah we're talking brownies you gotta have brownies look at that chocolate cherry with chili powder really in gunnison he's known as the pie man because he is he's famous in our town for making pies and people love his pies really what do you do with your pies you sell them you give them away give them away yeah eat them eat them is a problem good work good work my man yeah my family always had desserts always and that's that was the point of dinner i'm finally going to bed it was too fun to leave the company of alan and marsha they're such good people and what a finish to the day to see that sign with my name on it and just show up and they were ready with food and drinks and treats and these people have hearts of gold 100% they sat here all day and gave all the cyclists who came by a treat a sandwich you know just because they love it they love meeting people and they're cyclists themselves and they get inspired by seeing the riders out and i'm inspired by seeing them they are some of the best and this trail has really it's the best part of it is are the people that i've met along the way every day there's a surprise and today's surprise was one of the best for sure


Hi everyone, welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and today I'm gonna review a Tesla option that I called for the Gap Options newsletter. It was really, really a nice move in Tesla and it's interesting because it reminds me of how much momentum when I look at this stock, I'm gonna look at the daily chart in a minute here, can come into a stock and so quickly and that's the beautiful thing. When you're doing options, the faster the move, the better the move, the bigger the move and it's really nice also when it happens overnight in a gap. So what I do is gaps, it's what I teach and if you're interested in learning, I have a class once a month on gaps and then I also have the newsletter which we'll talk about today. If you'd like more information, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com. You can call me at 929-3200 Gap or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So let's take a look at Tesla. So last week, it's Thursday, I called a call in it here. Rallied, gapped up here on Friday, had the big move on Monday, broke out higher, continued. This was an expiration date. The both of these here, we're gonna go over, both of these calls were expiration for Friday but I just, I can't see how anyone would have been in these trades past yesterday, but who knows? Maybe somebody held them into today. The stock ran at well over 1900, which is utterly, utterly insane. The stock actually did run 300 points from the first trade, so we'll go over it. So the first trade was on that day the 13th, I called the 1620 strikes aspiring Friday the 21st. Stock ran $300 through the number, it was completely, completely insane. But again, when you're up a good amount, the best thing to do is to book the money, that's part of trading. It's not just taking the trade, it's also exiting the trade. You need to book the reservation and hold the reservation. So anyways, beautiful call. And again, if you're on the options newsletter, you would have gotten this trade. So the cost was $55 a share or a contract, which is 100 shares. So that's not cheap, but it really was worth it and you could have done one farther away. And you can always do that on the options newsletter to get it into the moon. Two contracts cost 11,000, sold at 215, this is on the Monday. Okay, again, it skyrocketed then through 1900 Tuesday, but exit from the Monday, which was that big green bar, we'll go back in a minute, 32,000, return on investment 291%, that's a great trade. That's a fabulous trade. This was a really, really beautiful call. I was taking it here and exiting into the close of a fat green rally. But again, if you held it here for one more day, and this chart's still higher, to be honest with you. So it's got so much momentum into it and then I ended up calling it again. So the next one was on Monday, which I saw the gap, Bosch gap up, call the 1700 strike. Again, expiring Friday. This was Monday the 17th, cost of this was 58. Two contracts risk 11,600, sold at 140, which again was a great exit on the Monday. So take it in the morning, exit in the afternoon, prop at 16,400, return on investment 141%. But again, if you held this, this went over 200 points, if you held it till Tuesday. Just a fabulous call by me and I make a lot of great trade calls. Not just the day trades, but options too. We're talking about the options newsletter here. And one of the reasons people I think like this newsletter is they can go about their business without sitting and watching the trade or being in the trading room. They can get in and get out or put an order in and then put an order out to fill it if it hits, it hits.  When you're day trading, really gotta pay attention every second you're in a day trade. But these options, you can just let them go. And then I do suggest watching on your phone if you're not in front of a computer and look at the chart to see where it's at, if it's getting close to the target, your money management target and the chart target. So a beautiful trade in or two trades in Tessa, but it really was that same movement, that same momentum. It was the follow through in the gap and they were bullish gaps again in the Tessa. The biggest move was the move in the Monday. So if you'd like to sign up for the gap options, newsletter annual subscription. This is a one year subscription cost is $69.99 for the whole year, 12 months. I do not have any shorter subscription periods than that. People always ask me that, the answer is no. It's one year. It depends on how many trades we get in a week or a month. So it's an annual subscription because over the term of the year, you will more than get the benefit for the cost of this for the trades in a year. We just don't know how many we're gonna get in any given day or week. So this is really just such a good letter because the overnight moves, again, going back to the Tesla can be astronomical and it is because of gaps and that is what I teach in the class and that is how I'm making the trade calls. I'm seeing the gap. I'm rating the gap in the pre-market and you're getting the benefit of that by getting the trade calls. Trades are emailed to you also. So you can email me at melissathestockswush.com if you wanna sign up. This is open to anyone, no prerequisites. I do think you will trade better if you've done the golden gap course before trading this newsletter. But really, if you just wanna sign up for the newsletter, if you know how to place orders doing options yourself, you need to know how to place the trade and exit the trade yourself. You get the information here in the letter with the strike, the ticker symbol, the expiration date and the type. And again, my suggestion for money management is usually 50% to 100%. But there are some trades like this that go absolutely insane and we do discuss them in the room in the morning in the trading room or you can always email me as well if you have questions. In both the golden gap course and the gap options course, I discuss targets more and it's really, really interesting because this market right now seems to me to be having some more follow through which is exciting coming into the fall period. I don't know what to expect with that but I'm totally prepared now and so glad about holding that over the weekend. Some people did exit that Thursday trade on Monday but then people hit it again on Monday and it was such a big move and I haven't found out yet quite frankly if anyone ended up holding these through the Tuesday but there might have been someone that did I should send out an email to find out but just a phenomenal, I mean to get a 200 point move, a 300 point move in these trade calls within 24, 48 hours, two, three days. I mean, that's just fantastic. So really nice trades and very, very excited for again, the fall trading. If you'd like to sign up for the gap options newsletter, some huge calls by me this year, email me and Melissa at the stockswush.com do not miss the next trades. It's still earning season here at the end of the summer. We've got some big ones coming up this week. We'll see what happens tomorrow morning and can't wait.


Hello and welcome to News Clixoom Mapping Fortlines where we discuss major geopolitical issues around the world. Today we're going to be talking about the scenario in the US, China trade war or what is called the trade war. Although it's mainly the United States acting against China. So recently we had the US decision to ban TikTok and WeChat from app stores in the coming week. And China has just spotted very strongly asking the United States to stop bullying and even inaugurating its own list of unreliable entities. So this definitely does mark yet another phase in what has been going on over the past few months. We have with us Praveen Prakash to talk about this. Praveen, to quickly begin with, how do you see the latest last two days of the development? So you've talked about this before of course. But again, this marks a very concrete step and it now looks like China after holding back for quiet some time and hoping that say the councils might prevail is likely to take action as well. Well, this is really fracturing the world on a number of fault lines, not one. So one of it we have already been commenting on the trade come tech war, that's one element of it. But it also has now the prospect of fracturing the world on financial issues, financial terms and we'll discuss how that's likely to happen. But also in terms of the supply chains because the US and China are the biggest economies in the world. They had trade relations. There's an enormous amount of trade that goes on between the two. And if that relationship fractures, then we're going to see of course the consequences on a wide range of issues. And the last is of course the internet, you know, which has been regarded as something which everybody accepts is common communications, etc, etc. But if this trend starts to develop further, then we are likely to see the internet fracture into a number of national networks. And then we are going to see a qualitatively different future than what we have seen today. So I think there is a huge number of issues over here, but taking up the first issue that you raised. One is of course, the WeChat has been banned. So that's almost immediate. But TikTok has been given a reprieve of a different kind, no more downloads of TikTok are possible, but they have 100 million users in the United States. They can still use it till November 12th without any fresh downloads, which means TikTok still gets a certain kind of grace period within which then whether Oracle can settle its accounts, convince the United States and have either Biden's hand over the TikTok app completely to them or Biden's itself or TikTok headquarters itself in the United States. All of these are there in a step that preceded in this. Chinese had already said that a lot of the software technology that TikTok holds or Biden's holds, that is subject to export restrictions because that's artificial tools that they are using, other software tools they are using. So there are export control regulations that are there. So they had made clear that transferring TikTok Biden's property will not be that easy. And Chinese would have a say on that, even if Biden's therefore loses a considerable amount of its money, because if it could sell, for instance, the TikTok, even in the United States and four or five other countries that have been talked of, all of which are headquarters of which was the US arm of TikTok, then that would, could conceivably, would be 10 to 20 billion dollars. So that's the money where Biden's would have had. And the normal course probably even more, because TikTok as you know, was really an app which was having enormous amount of spread among the youngsters, teenagers. So this is one part. And you also talked about the other response that China has said, they had prepared just like the US is preparing entities list. They had an unreliable entities list in which lot of the big American companies are there. So if they now say that all those unreliable entities which are there, we will not buy equipment from them. We will not buy goods from them. What you are going to see, therefore, is a cascading effect that, for instance, Boeing, of course, Boeing itself is down in the dumps at the moment. But if it wasn't, it would not have been able to access the Chinese market because it would be considered an unreliable entity. So how many of these players and China is a big buyer of American goods as well. If that happens, then others will benefit. It could be Chinese local companies, of course, but could also be European companies. We are not in the race at the moment because we have also decided to follow the American route banning apps and so on. So I don't think at the moment we'll be looked upon. Indian companies will be looked upon as particularly reliable entities either. But given the fact that our footprint has been relatively much smaller in China, it makes a difference to us but may not make such a big difference to us in the long run. But definitely for the Chinese and American trade, it means essentially sundering, breaking apart the supply chains which have bound them together. And if the Americans are not going to supply chips and other equipment to the Chinese, then there is a huge number of companies in China who buy these chips. But the major Chinese chip manufacturers do consider China as a big market for them. So that was already happening with the Huawei issue. But now with this, we are really starting to look at retaliation possibly from the Chinese companies, Chinese side. I think part of it they were holding off thinking if it lasts till the elections, let's see what the new administration does. But let's be clear that whether it's a Biden administration or a Trump administration, these processes that have been set at large. I think these processes will continue and there is going to be a large amount of bipartisan support on the issue of China at the moment. So I think you are going to see a slow unraveling of the global trade system with this step and certainly a sundering of technologies and also internet. So these are the new elements that are coming in and I think therefore this particular step that the US has now taken may not appear by itself as the big one. But this is finally the one in which Chinese are now I think considering retaliation, whether they will hold off till November, we do not know. But it does appear they are preparing the grounds for retaliation as well. And probably in this context, China and the US are simultaneously also been talking, you had multiple rounds of negotiations about the tariffs that were imposed by the US first and subsequently on China. At various points, there have even been certain kinds of agreements where the countries have decided to hold off for some time. So in this context, one question would be that, what would be the kind of impact on the US itself? Because we have talked quite a bit about China, the kind of crunch they may face. But what about the United States? Is it likely to also affect very heavily US industries, lead to a further economic decline? What are the possibilities there? You know, let's be very clear, China today is the major manufacturing power in the world. In fact, if we say, we can also call it the global flat factory. This is where a lot of the manufactured goods, particularly not essentially the chips at that level, but almost all the components, other components as well as the finished goods today have Chinese equipment in it. Either in it or it is Chinese equipment. So China is a powerhouse in terms of manufacturing and it is also one of the largest food importers. Now, as you know, the United States has been exporting food items, grains and so on. So China was a major buyer of that. And of course, for the, if you go to any American store, very large number of the goods really come from China, including textiles, they come from other places also. But certainly on manufactured items, the Chinese goods are a major item in the United States. So how easy is it going to be to separate the supply lines so that Americans don't buy from the Chinese and Chinese also do not buy from the Americans. How can that happen? This is a torturous process. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to happen that day. But if this process continues and there is nothing that stops it, both might at some point say uncle and give up. That's a different issue and come to an agreement. But I think the way it is developing, it's just not a trade war anymore. We started by calling it a trade war. Then it became expanded to include the 5G. Then it from 5G, it went to the denial of technology, particularly chip manufacturing, not the chips themselves, the chip manufacturing equipment. That was bad. And then the American expansion of that argument to say anything that American machines touch or American software touch is also bad. As you know, ARM processors, which is essentially the design of the chips, this was something which was sanctioned at one point. ARM thought that they were out of it. It's a soft bank owned company. They thought they were not covered under it. And they recently had said they have taken legal advice. They're not banned under it. But now the United States is negotiating to certain companies with soft bank to buy ARM. Then of course it becomes again an American company. So US is not stopping any of its measures. And they're not saying that if China does ABC, then we will stop. That's not the trajectory it is on. It is saying that we are doing all this. We are going to see that China is not able to compete with us on a whole bunch of things. We are going to free our networks, our allies networks from Chinese equipment. So it said all out what they have launched on technology terms. It's no longer an issue of quid pro quo, which is why the trade war was that if we do a certain set of things, we will relax our trade terms. This is really saying it doesn't matter what you do. We're not going to give you chips, chip making. We're not going to let you do a we're not going to let you come into markets, our markets with these kinds of things. So it is basically saying that on questions on issues of high tech, you have to surrender the high ground to us. You cannot enter those areas. And I think that is where the battle is shaping up the battle of chip making. It's not a battle over manufacturing of chips, but it's a battle over how do I get even to set up a factory, which then can manufacture chips to a design. So it's really the tools of chip manufacture that have been that have been brought under the agreement under the trade bars that the US has launched. So I think it goes much more. But there is also a financial aspect of this. This we can talk later, which will come to how the financial war that US has, what are the weapons it has, and what are the possibilities there. But let's be very clear. This is a battle not being fought on one ground. This is a war being fought on multiple fronts. And all these fronts do not seem to have an end goal. Saying if you give this, we can reach an agreement, which as I said was what the trade war is about. But this is basically subjugate yourself, surrender, and then we'll discuss the terms kind of battle. So I think this is going to be what will define the next few years in both in technology and in trade terms. And regarding the trade aspect, one thing we also talked about earlier is how this phase is marked, maybe the end of the global trade regime that came in the 90s. And it's interesting because earlier this week, the WTO did say that the US tariffs were not in conformity with global trade norms, but it is no power to actually implement or do anything regarding that except beg the US to change its policies. So how do you see this panning out in terms of what is the likely scenario as this regime kind of crumbles and the world with the world regime. You know, we were always very confused. Why was the United States going after WTO? Because it had benefited as a single country, perhaps the most from WTO. This is if we see the economic benefits, the financial benefits, it went much more to the developed countries, particularly the rich countries. And certainly China made a lot of concessions regarding intellectual property, a whole bunch of other things in order to be able to get into WTO. And all of that at that point of time was dictated by the United States, otherwise they would not have been able to enter the WTO itself. So having said that, why did the United States actually start moving against WTO by refusing to nominate or accept nomination of the people who are the dispute settlement tribunal. Now this first settlement tribunal is the actual final arm, which looks at trade disputes. And once a judgment is given, you can go to the dispute settlement tribunal and if that doesn't say, pronounce in your favor, then you've lost the case. Now if the dispute settlement tribunal does not exist and the US refusing to nominate anybody's nomination on the dispute settlement tribunal effectively means I think there is one tribunal member still there, but you need three members for a tribunal. So the dispute settlement process is a default. You can pronounce judgments, but because the tribunal finally does not exist anymore, you can appeal against that and that's it. There will be no hearing on that. So we were all wondering why is the United States doing it? From it is the beneficiary of WTO. Now it's become very clear they're doing it because they're going to violate WTO regime and impose sanctions on China, which are not in conformity with the trade rules. And they are going to use what's called the nuclear option. That means national security. If we use that, then you have an exception in WTO, but then WTO can still say, is that a legitimate exercise of the WTO rules that you consider the whole bunch of things as national security, including, you know, goods of kinds, which have nothing to do with security whatsoever. So how do you really do that? And having done that, now it's becoming quite clear. The reason for making the WTO dispute settlement process dysfunctional was a part of the plan by which then they would do all of this. But, you know, they have a second instrument which people haven't really talked about. And that instrument, which of course they're using against Meng, the finance, chief finance officer of Huawei. Now that is how do you bring foreign nationals under U.S. law and which is what actually the case against Meng is. Without going into details, it's important to note that was a similar case in which started in 2014, 2013-14 against Alstom. Alstom was a big power plant equipment manufacturer, manufactured boilers and turbines. And it had a financially tough time. And it was on the basically it was offered for sale to different companies. G was trying to buy it. Siemens was trying to buy parts of it. And so was the other companies in Europe who were also thinking of buying it, maybe also the Japanese. What happened was at that point of time, under the Foreign Corruption Prevention Act that the U.S. has, they looked at Alstom officials who had bribed or promised bribes for a contract in Indonesia. None of it should normally have come under the purview of the United States. It's a French company. The recipient of the bribe, if it is, wasn't Indonesia. So why would the U.S. come into the picture at all? How would U.S. laws come into the picture? Then it transpires that the FCA provisions are such that finally, if for instance an American bank is involved in a transaction and if the prices for instance are being settled in dollars, so there would be an American involvement because the dollar is a currency. It's an American currency. Therefore, you would finally transaction would have to enter the U.S. somewhere. Under the Foreign Control Prevention Act, the U.S. basically says any contract denominated dollars is under legal jurisdiction of the United States. If any American bank has been used, it's under legal jurisdiction of the American of the United States. Even if the people who are receiving, transferring the money have nothing to do with the United States. Just because a dollar transaction has been there, therefore they are involved. So the fact is dollar was de facto the global currency. Therefore, any transactions of this kind between two countries or two companies, two international companies would take place in dollars. That's the way it was being done. So this brought the entire global financial structure officially under the legal eye of the United States. And this was an extra-legal, extra-territorial reach of the United States far beyond anything else. Alstom had one of its chief officials, very senior official, who was in jail in the United States for almost five years in and out of prison because he also didn't get bail and so on. But he spent almost five years in the United States on this. And finally, Alstom, which was being pursued by GE, was sold to GE. Of course, whether it was a good sale, bad sale is a different issue. But everybody who studied the case, and of course the Alstom official who wrote a book on this, all of them agree that it does seem very shady that the case was settled when it was settled. It basically got settled two weeks after GE bought Alstom, that division of Alstom. So this whole issue of extra-territorial reach of the US law was a part, it appears, of also US trying to force trade deals. And this is exactly the pattern you now see with Trump, that you sell TikTok to an American company, wholesale, then you will not come under sanctions. So what was done to Alstom using a different law is now being done by using a national security law that this is why you have to sell your companies to us. So essentially, this is the third element of the current scenario, that if you want to today function as a country, if your companies within the country want to function internationally, then how do you keep out yourself out of the extra-legal power that US has assumed? And how do you really work on that basis? As you can see, Canada has accepted that yes, US laws should operate on Chinese citizens, a Chinese company, and as long as they're in Canada, they can be arrested under US direction. So if this principle is accepted, and of course, the US reverse is not true, you cannot accept a US that isn't anywhere else for acts that they have done in the United States. So this reverse principle will not operate. But why should you be surprised? After all, they're Noriega, other corrupt, you might be. He was the president of Panama and the US landed there, took him prisoner, and he was tried in US courts, and US courts had no problems with that. They said, yes, our laws are run in any part of the world. So this whole principle of law is actually, well, whatever the US says goes, kind of understanding of law is companies, the financial overreach, the fact that dollar is the de facto currency, and of course, the fact that it backs up, therefore, the US claims that the entire financial transactions in the world, if they're carried out in dollar, effectively, the US, the US has legal jurisdiction over it. I think this is the overarching picture that is there. And we haven't commented about the Alstom case and its links to the Huawei, but the Chinese have, they have talked about it. And it's worthwhile to go through what Perucchi, I think he was the official who was arrested and spend a lot of time in US jails. It's worthwhile to see what he's saying, because though he might be no saint, but after all, you know, all of these companies have involved themselves in third world countries giving bribes and bending those national laws. But the fact is he was not tried under Indonesian law. He was not tried under French law. He was tried under the American law, with absolutely no jurisdiction, otherwise between a French company and an Indonesian entity. And the fact that the US comes in is only because of the financial structure of the globe, that dollar is essentially the currency in which global trade, global deans are struck. So I think all of this is now up a grabs that if you fracture at one level, can all of these then survive is a question that I think you should start thinking. Thank you so much for being for talking to us. We'll continue looking at this topic in the coming weeks as well. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching.


Now we're going to be doing our budget remembering that the budget would be entered in the cog drop down and then the budgeting but first we need to compare to create the budget so we can put it in the system and QuickBooks is good at running reports once we have created and imported the budget to run reports like profit and loss or a budget versus actual type of report. So in prior presentations we exported a trial balance and constructed it into just the income statement accounts and we double checked that our balance lines up to the one three two four on the income statement for the two months of data. So here we have it here so we just have the income accounts as positive the expense accounts negative we don't have any subtotals in play at this point because that's kind of the easiest streamlined way to to work with it and now I'm going to say that these are my beginning numbers for two months of data I'm going to divide it by two is for one month of data and then project that out over over the 12 months and that's what that's going to be our starting point and then we'll make adjustments from there. So we're going to project out 12 months I know this data was pulled from January and February of 2023 but we're going to kind of pretend it was as of two months of November and December of the prior year so that we can then kind of project out for the full year of 2023 and then run reports budget versus actual for those two months of data that we actually have in the QuickBooks system. Okay so to do that I first I would like to put my months up top have a header column so I'd like to pull my data down a little bit one row. So one way to do that is I can select the entire row with with a pointer on row one right click the selected area and insert and that pushes it all down one row and then I might start here and just say this is going to be January let's put a little space between our actual data I'm going to make column C a little bit smaller and let's start on column D and say this is January FEB that's all I should need and QuickBooks should be able to pick up that trend even with only two points I'm going to select those two put my cursor on the fill handle and drag it to the right you can see it's picking up June July and so forth and we want to go to of course December so there we have it as it's still highlighted I'm going to go to the home tab alignment center it and let's also make it black and white like I typically do with a header font let's make it black and white on on that so there we have it and then January for the January numbers I'm going to assume it's just going to be this amount divided by two so we're just going to because this is for two months of data so I'll just take that and divide it by two so I'm going to say this equals this number divided by two and that's basically our starting point I could copy that all the way down putting my cursor on the fill handle and I'll just say that's my starting point all the way down boom all right and so there's there's our starting point so each of these rows is just taking the prior two month total and dividing it by two now I could copy that to the right a couple different ways as our as our starting point I might say that I want to copy it like this