to want to. For the first time in its history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most badly cases. Search for Whitehall one to one to is provided by Percy Hoskins, chief crime reporter of the London Daily Express. The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper. And this voice is out of the custodian of Scotland Yards famous black museum chief superintendent John Davidson. Good afternoon. One was put this so far back on the shelf. Here it is. This is what is known as a Winchester bottle. This one is the 80 ounce size half a gallon. There are 20 ounces in an English pack. A Winchester bottle is frequently used in hospitals for the storage of liquids which are shortly to be used. Milk, for example. That's what this one was used for. You will know that there are two fairly clear fingerprints on it here. Here ring with a chalk mark. There were once a great many more, but all have disappeared except these two which have been covered with a plastic solution to preserve them. These are a murderous fingerprints. These are the clues which put Scotland Yard and the Lancashire Constabulary onto him. He was of course hanged. Now perhaps you'd like to hear what was done to find him. Chief Inspector Leslie Crawford here was in on the most of it. Four years ago I was a hardworking chief inspector at Scotland Yard. I didn't know how hard an officer could work before this case. I was roused at 3 a.m. by a telephone call from a town in Lancashire. The chief constable was calling. I'll take the first train, sir. Who's been murdered? I arrived from the town of Blackburn at an excessively early hour. I was met at the train by a police car of the Blackburn borough force and rushed at once to Queens Park Hospital. There were a great many people there. Hospital attendants and police officers. The body of the little girl whose name was Mary Margaret was in the hospital morgue.  Chief Constable explained that. As if she'd been held by the ankles and her head dashed against the wall. Is that a guess, sir? The wall is out there, Chief Inspector. Down the little hill there. Right on the hospital grounds. Yes. Your clues you spoke of, sir? Well, I think Nurse Rollins. Yes, sir. In here, please, Nurse Rollins. This is the sister that was on duty. Chief Inspector, Nurse Rollins. Yes, sir. Go on, please. Well, sir, that little Mary Margaret was asleep with the other children. How many of them? Four others, sir. Three girls and one boy. Go on, please. I was in the kitchen. I'm on night duty and we're short-handed. Preparing food for them for tomorrow. This is a small hospital. So far as we're able to determine now, no other nurses were about. The watchman? Well, go on, please, Nurse Rollins. Well, I was cutting bread and I had a sound in the children's ward. I went in and one of the other children was crying. I picked her up and took her out to the kitchen, gave her bread and jam. Worthy. Mary Margaret was in a bed when I come in and also when I returned with the other little girl after a bread and jam. I went over and kissed Mary Margaret. Yes. I thought Mary Margaret was asleep with the other girls. And the trolley with the empty Winchester bottles was standing alongside the wall. I saw it. And what's that? Weight. Then about ten minutes later. That would be at about fifteen minutes after midnight. Yes. I heard a dog barking and I was afraid I'd wake up one of the children. Why are the children here? Oh, various minor kids' diseases, influenza and so on. They're all very poor. As I glanced in the door, the first thing I noticed was that one of the Winchester bottles had been moved from the trolley. What's the trolley? Sort of a little table on wheels. Oh, yes. One of the Winchester bottles had been taken from it and I saw it lying in the corner. We have the bottle. Go on, Sister. Then I saw Mary Margaret was gone. I ran to her bed. Sure enough, she was gone. Had she been asleep?  She didn't wake up even when I kissed her. Yes, Rowan's is tired. Oh, don't mind it, please. What did you do then? I run back to the kitchen through the switch that turns on all the lights. That's some of the watchmen in the main building, of course. I looked out the window. I saw what I thought might be a little nightgown. Then I ran into the wood again to see if I could have been mistaken. But it wasn't. She was gone. I cried out to the watchman Mary Margaret was gone. And he ran outside. Oh, he'd seen such a long time. He'd come back with us. It wasn't a nightgown I saw. Then what? Well, that's all, sir. I'd call the police. They're all there now, sir. The winches to Bortlet, did you see any fingerprints on it or anything? Well, I... There are two well-defined prints on it, which are apparently new. There are also quite a number of old ones, rather smudged. But the two are fresh. Why then? We think they're the murderous prints. This is from the murderous confession four months later. Of course, we had no idea of it at the time. I was outside the building. I admit I'd had something to drink. Investigations at the time of his arrest revealed that he had drunk six bottles of bitter beer, two double rums, a bottle of Guinness, and six or eight more bottles of bitter. But I wasn't drunk, really. I don't remember how I got to the hospital or why, but whenever I was looking in the window, I saw the nurse carrying the other kid to the kitchen and feeding her and bringing her back and kissing Mary Margaret and going out again. Then I thought I ought to go and see Mary Margaret. That's a nice name for a kid, isn't it? So I only laced my shoes and took him off, and I could hear the nurse singing to herself. And the outside door that leads to the ward was closed, so I just sneaked in and took her. She wasn't sure who I was, but she wasn't much scared at all, I didn't think. She started to laugh like, but I told her to stop. Or I picked up that Winchester bottle to see if there was anything you need to drink, but there wasn't. And I set it on the floor before I scooped Mary Margaret out of her cot. Nobody heard me, I'm sure. Oh yes, when I came back to get my shoes, I left them on the porch, there was a dog barking. I thought I'd make him stop, but he stopped anyway. I was halfway across the field when I saw the lights come on in the hospital and I hurried.  The sun was just rising when I went into the ward from which the child had been taken. The other children had been awakened and taken away, so I couldn't tell at that time which had been Mary Margaret's cot. The floor had been freshly painted a day or so before and the sun slanting across from one of the east windows showed me something that stopped me in my tracks. It was a collection of footprints and the fresh paint. Remember now, at this juncture I'd heard nothing of what you have just heard. I called Nurse Rowlands. Who's are those? I asked. I don't know, sir. I never saw them before. It's only because the sunlight's hitting them this way that they're too large to be one of the nurses. Stand away from them please. We'll have them photographed. Who's do you think they are, sir? Additional moves. I saw the Winchester bottle in question. There were two clear fingerprints on it. One of a left thumb and one of a left forefinger. The fingerprint photographer copied them at once after carefully powdering them with white zinc oxide. The bottle itself was a dark greenish glass. And we had our first collection of prints complete. But possessing a set of prints and placing your hand on a murderous shoulder are two different things. I talked with the Chief Constable. Yes, we have several thousand fingerprints on file here in Blackburn and the Lancashire Constabulary has a large collection too. I'll get copies of these prints down to a laboratory at once. And as soon as their prints are ready I'll pass them on to the Lancashire people. I've already passed the word to send them to the CRO at the moment. CRO? Or the Criminal Records Office? We ought to be of help. We've got a million or more prints all indexed. All I hope is some of us have the right one. If he's a habitual criminal who has any kind of record. Yes. But what else can we do? You've looked at the grass out there in the field where she was found, of course. Early this morning. Nothing there. The dew's taken care of that. And no fingerprints on the child's cut or anywhere else so far as we can find. You think it was a local man? No way of knowing or even guessing now. Yes. What are you going to do?  Not very satisfactory. Not very. The bottle. What about the bottle? The fingerprints. Oh. Yes. Meaning what? The other fingerprints only. I've been thinking of that. Things positively gummy. Probably nine million other prints on it. Well, we'll have to check them all, sir. All of them. Well, we can't get very far till we find out who made the others. Have to do it. It'll take years. It has to be done, sir. Of course. Well, it has to be done. Checking and identifying is... What was it the American staff officers used to say? It's of the essence. Of course, but... Cheer up, sir. I'm asking for a crew of fingerprint technicians to be sent up from Scotland Yard. They'll make short work of it. I hope. I wonder how many there'll be to check. Millions, I'm afraid. Every nurse in the place that might have touched it, every workman... Every patient. Not only the present ones, but everyone that's been here since the bottle was washed last. Doctors. Technicians. Blacks. Watchmen. Deliverments. Cleaners. Relatives. Every one that's been here since this bottle was last washed. We checked them all. There were no fingerprints on record at Queen's Park Hospital, so we checked everyone. It was grueling work. And we were obliged to take more than 3,000 prints before we were satisfied that we had everyone. Some of them required journeys as far away as Blackpool and Lancaster, but at last... It took a month and a day. We were satisfied that we knew all about the owner of each print on the bottle. That is all except the newest pair, the thumb and forefinger of the left hand of a person unknown. I give it to you as my considered opinion that those are the murderous prints. I must agree with you. No, the only ones that we don't know about. I'm very likely his all right. All we have to do is to identify him. Yes. There aren't any other clues yet. None. I understand the whole turn of Blackburn's upset. It's been a good deal of, shall I say, unrest. Yes, I know.  He hurt badly? No. He was cycling back to the town and he heard someone mutter something about lazy corpse. That was all he heard. Good thing he was wearing his helmet. One of my men had a telephone call from a woman he didn't recognize at his home this morning. They want action. You've passed the word? To whom? Institutions and so on. To every police force of any size in England. I asked them to print every drunk, every unaccounted for dead man, every suicide, every tramp. And no results? None yet. Of course they're still coming in. They have much confidence in it. You think it was a local man? Well... I wonder. Well, I think you'll agree that whoever it was knew a great deal about the hospital here and its layout. Seems reasonable. I wish we had fingerprints of everybody if they're having some of those places on the continent. No, I don't either. No, we just got rid of it, like we can only have things like that with another hitler. Which God forbid. I mean... Well? I don't know. How? Let's fingerprint everybody. You are listening to Whitehall 1212, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper. The story today, like all the stories heard on Whitehall 1212, is compiled from the official files of Scotland Yard. And is true in all respects except the name to the participants. Inspector Crawford of Scotland Yard has just made an unheard of suggestion to the chief constable of the city of Blackburn in a desperate effort to unmask the murder of the little girl Mary Margaret. The chief constable is speaking. But you can't do that, my dear Crawford. Can't do what? Why force everyone? Force anyone to be fingerprinted? Not in England? Yes, you can. How? Well, not order them to do it, because if I know Englishman, you won't get anywhere. I should say not. They'd mob you. If I order them to? It's never been done before. Fingerprinting a whole town? I'm afraid it'll have to be done, sir. Crawford, look here. This town has a population of 130,000. And one of them is a murderer? Yes. Particularly atrocious, no? Well... And everyone in the town wants to turn him out? I don't think it can be done. It's never been done. That's true. No. That's not to say it can't be done. Would you print everyone? Every man. Yes, I'm sure it's a man. Try all the men first and then... Oh, I don't think it's a woman, Crawford. Those prints are obviously a man's. And that footprint we found. That's a man's footprint. Well, shall we get started then? I never heard of that. Have you any alternate suggestions? Well... Have you any alternate suggestions? But... What's to be gained by waiting? Haven't enough policemen. We'll get them. Don't you think the people of Blackburn want to find this fellow chief constable? Well... Well, indeed. We fail. We? Everybody's failed up to now. Yes, I know. I realize it's an unprecedented thing, sir. I know, I know, but we have an important set of fingerprints, which we all suspect to be the criminals. If we can find the duplicate of that set here, we'll be doing no more than our duty, sir. I know, but to... To fingerprint a whole town? I else will be found him. But... But in England, sir! I can't believe that an Englishman will stand aside when it's his obvious duty to lay a child's murder by the heel, sir. I'm afraid I can't explain to you how unheard of it is to set such an enterprise in motion in England. The Englishman is perhaps the freest man on earth. To indulge in such a thing as freely handing his fingerprints to the police is most incredible. Even for such a cause. But the Englishman is also an unusual being. While we had expected opposition to the scheme, we were amazed at the response. The mayor of Blackburn spoke to the townspeople. Ministers and their pulpits urged everyone to cooperate. The wives of the citizens urged their men to give their fingerprints. I got 20 more men from Scotland Yard. The chief constable of Blackburn supplied 20 more. The Lancashire Special Constabulary sent volunteers, boy scouts, girl guides. Everyone cooperated. In order to eliminate trips to the police stations, we sent pairs of constables and others to every house on the electoral rolls to urge every man to give us his prints. The first man to be printed was the mayor publicly. His example was a good one. Many women volunteered to give their prints also. But it was not as easy as I expected. A few Englishmen at first. No, you may not have my fingerprints, sir. I've lived for 77 years in this town and no man has ever seen my fingerprints. Am I a criminal, sir? It took three of us to talk that one out of it. What if when you find my fingerprints and all the others aren't the right ones, sir? We'll destroy them, sir. We'll put them all in a palping machine and chop them up into little bits and bury the bits. Nurse Rollins from Queens Park was one of our most devoted assistants. I only put her under this stubborn fella. Come on, Mr. Hodges. Don't you want the help?   Now?  Of course you didn't. Neither did I. And I gave them my fingerprints straight away, Mr. Hodges. And so did the rector of St. Pancras. Why should he give his a rector? St. Pancras is the patron saint of children, Mr. Hodges. Oh, is he now? Don't you like children, Mr. Hodges?  Jody would have been 47 from next Wittentown if he hadn't died of yellow jondish in America and fourteen great-grandchildren. Do you think I don't love children than nurse Maggie Rollins? Answer that. But I won't have no fingerprints taken and that there's the last word. I'm a Lankisherman, and a Lankisherman's home is his castle. Wouldn't your little great-granddaughter Sheila be just about the age Mary Margaret was, Mr. Hodges? How old was she? She was just four, Mr. Hodges. Sheila was four the day before yesterday. Oh, my... Now, just give me your left hand, Mr. Hodges. Here, we'll press your thumb down here on the ink. And then... My finger now. Don't forget my finger. Just the same age as little Sheila. I wonder if I could buy Sheila a little box of sweets over there at Yon Counter. Are you wondering about the murderer? Well, I know about all the fingerprinting, of course. Everybody did, but somehow or other, the cops missed my house. They come the next day and I said, No, you've got my dabs, I said, and you've thrown them away because I wasn't the one. And I laughed. Well, it was a great hulking young constable from Scotland Yacht itself, and he'd never been outside London yet and so he believed me. And anyhow, you can't make an Englishman give the cops his fingerprints. And so we missed him. We missed a few others, too, although we had a pack of prints that would strangle a horse. Not there. And that was after two weeks of checking the cards. I'm afraid not. Those are the fingerprints of every male between the ages of 16 and 60 in Blackburn. No, they're not, sir. Hey, what's that? That isn't all of them, sir. Corresponding with the electoral rolls, Miss Rollins? They're 30,000 cards here now. I don't care, that isn't all of them, sir. Begging your pardon. Who've we missed? There was hundreds of servicemen on leave here in Blackburn the night Mary Margaret was murdered, sir. Soldiers, sailors... They've all gone back to their stations now. There's a record of them, sir. That might be... Well, they're all over the world. They're a lot of work. Let's get the circulars out. Circular letters to every organization from which any man was known to be on leave in Blackburn on the night of May 15 to 16, 1948. And about 190 letters with the question fingerprints and an urgent request for reply. Then on the chance that there might have been one unaccounted serviceman in Blackburn that night, letters to the police departments in every section of the world where British servicemen were stationed. Letters to the police of Canada, South Africa, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Italy, and a score of other places where the criminal might be. 261 letters. We didn't find him. All the fingerprint cards had been destroyed. We didn't have anything. And the town was muttering again. Three months had gone by, not a trace of the murderer, except the anonymous fingerprints had been discovered. No wonder they muttered. We had nothing. We thought of another thing. There were some 600 men living in Blackburn, BPs. Displaced persons who'd made their way to Blackburn in one way or another. There were records of them. They all marched into the borough hall together and asked to be fingerprinted. We didn't miss one. We didn't find anyone out. The murderer must have laughed to himself. They didn't look in the right place. A new issue of ration books was about to be made. The old ones were to be turned in with their fingerprint identification. Each one was examined and compared for the copies of the prints on the bottle. It was another hopeless task. But if we had to do it the hard way, that man should be caught. Nurse Rowland's found him. On duty in the borough hall, the fourth day of the examination, on the 46,253rd book. I've got him! In the next morning, exactly 90 days after the crime was committed, the Chief Constable and I walked together to 21 Marfield Terrace and arrested the owner of the prints. One Lionel Tomlinson would have been discharged from the army as a soldier with character indifferent a week before Mary Margaret was murdered. We took away with us one of the prisoner's wool army socks. The forensic laboratory matched fibers from it to fibers found on the footprints on the floor of the ward. And the fingerprints matched perfectly. We found out why he did it. Why he murdered for you old Mary Margaret? Quite simple, gents. She's my niece. Don't laugh, gents. I was sorry for the poor little tack. I was home about two days when I hurt my half-brother and my sister-in-law talking about her. They hadn't any money. Not a father in. They said they'd have to send Mary Margaret away when she'd come back from the hospital. Give her up. You know, mates. I loved Mary Margaret. I... I didn't want to have that happen to my darling little niece. I loved her. So that night when I got squeaked out into the hospital and got her and killed her... I... I hope it didn't hurt her. What else was that to do? The trial attracted a great deal of attention throughout the British Commonwealth. Many thought he should be released. But determination of the insanity of a criminal is judged by laws which were passed more than a century ago. Thus, after the greatest exposition of the infallibility of the human fingerprint as a clue in British history, Lionel Tomlinson was brought to trial at Castle Lancaster on the 15th of October, 1948.  Four days later he was sentenced to be hanged. And the sentence was carried out in December of the same year. You have heard another true story of Scotland Yard told on Whitehall 1212. Heard today Lester Fletcher, as Chief Inspector Crawford. Others in the order of their appearance, Harvey Hayes, Winston Ross, Catherine Hines, Gordon Stern and Guy Spoff. This is Lionel Rico speaking. Whitehall 1212 is written and directed by Willis Cooper. Whitehall 1212 was presented from the NBC studios in Radio City. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


Money money. It's coming. It's coming to me to me now Name it and claim it is the name of the twisted theology that is taking over tick tock This teaching is nothing new with the likes of Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn being some of its main proponents today I'm gonna react to some of these name it and claim it teachers on tick tock I'm gonna dig into the roots of where they get this twisted theology from and I'm gonna dig into biblical truth And how we can understand this from God's perspective get ready and buckle up Okay, so you might still be asking yourself Isaac. What is name it and claim it theology? What is this all about you saw a little bit of it in the preview, but it's basically this I'm going to name what I want and I'm gonna claim it because God has it ready for me He's got all my blessings ready for me All I need to do is ask and everything I ask will be given to me Where do they get this kind of crooked weird thinking? Well, they get it from John 15 7 or at least that's what I've heard Some people reference if you abide in me and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you Many unfortunately see this verse as a guarantee that God will give them Exactly what they want whenever they ask for it as long as we really really want it. Is this true? Well, of course it is Why do you say that prosperity preacher Pete? Well, look at me for instance I ask God for many blessings money and success and all sorts of things and he's all granted them to me Including a private jet.  Okay, that money is coming money Coming say it with me money money. It's coming. It's coming to me to me now Later, I didn't make that up my bad. I've messed it up. We bother to try it again. Money money Come to me now five months from now every resource Everything you need money all the money every idea you need to be funded money may money find you money resources Find you wait may wealth find wait my bad guys. I just gotta notification here Dollars I quit I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I didn't I didn't get any money. Unfortunately. Maybe I gotta keep watching here See if it works You may increase increase you everything you need Concerning the dollar may it come to you in this season. Say it with me one more. Okay money money come to me come to me now That's what it is. Yeah, let's look at John 15 again If you abide in me and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you Notice here that it says you must abide in God You must abide in Jesus if that's not happening if that's not going on then he will not grant you whatever you wish So we need to understand. What are the implications of in abiding in Jesus abiding in God? Well, something that comes to mind is surrendering our will that is very different from God just giving us whatever we want No, we need to surrender our desires and our will to him first The idea of naming something and claiming that thing is much more easily derived from the New Age teaching of manifestation then from the biblical idea of prayer if you need further evidence Let's go to first John 514 and this is the confidence that we have towards him that if we ask anything According to his will he hears us that one verse right there just blew up all of name it and claim it theology It has to be according to God's will So here's the game changer when we pray we want our desires and our will to line up with God's But ultimately the Bible says that our ways are different from God's ways and our thoughts are different than his thoughts And even though that we are entering this process of transformation where we're going closer and closer to Jesus We're still gonna pray for things that aren't exactly in line with what God wants for us and his plan and his purposes And when that happens those prayers go unanswered at least in the way that we would want them But what we need to understand is that God is working underneath the surface for his glory and our eternal good Do you want to hang out with me and other believers from across the world on a video call twice a month? Do you want to be part of a fun thoughtful and encouraging discord group with other believers? Do you want to support my mission of helping people follow Jesus daily if you answered yes to any of those questions? I'd ask you to consider becoming a patron It would be a huge blessing to my ministry and it would be amazing to have you link in description You're checking account available balances 12 million six hundred seventeen thousand two hundred ninety dollars and fifty-six cents claim it Claim it claim it on your taxes. Otherwise you won't get arrested. Does she really think that she's gonna get 12 million dollars? Does she really think that's gonna happen? I just can't imagine that like she's like, you know, this is the type of girl That's gonna like do this thing and then like a week from now She's gonna find like a $10 bill in her jacket pocket. She's it worked. It worked. It worked. It's coming. The money's coming It's like no no no no no no you're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong sister Why do people love name it and claim it theology? Why is it such a popular fast-spreading ideology that you can simply ask for something and it will come to you? Whether that's name it and claim it whether that's manifestation whatever it may be. Why is that so popular? Well, it's because we love certain things that aren't God We love money for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many Pangs this should not be your primary focus and the fact that you are always asking God for give me money Give me money. Give me a million dollars. It's not even like oh God provide for my needs It's like I want so much money that I won't even know what to do with it's like I think your priorities are out of whack We put so much attention on the gift that we lose sight of the giver. God is not a vending machine, my friend Hmm, what do I want today a lot of things look good here? Okay? Let me go for this. Let me go for this a relationship Come on now. Come on now Why isn't this work when this working? Okay? Okay? Let me try something else here a million dollars Nothing's coming out. Why isn't this working? I mean my blessing type it in again give me a million dollars Nothing's coming out still Too often I catch myself thinking that I know better than God that if I pray for something that if it doesn't happen Then God's somehow off base, but I need to understand that God knows so much better than we do He has a purpose. He has a plan. He is timing So even though something might not happen now or in the way that we want it things are working out for His glory and our ultimate good and we can trust him in that. Yes, it takes faith But it's also a means by which God Focuses our eyes back on the giver and not just on the gift because ultimately if we look at the gospel We see Jesus as the ultimate gift like the gift of salvation of new life of transformation That is what we should put our hope in not the blessings and the money and anything that we want God to give us No, put our faith in Jesus. Thanks so much for watching guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you want to catch up with me on a personal level head on over to my Instagram at It's Isaac David because I post on there quite a bit about some more personal stuff so you can check it out I'd love to see you over there. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time God bless


There are many sites in the modern world which are overlooked by mainstream academia, some due to their inexplicable nature, and others due to the controversial nature of the discoveries made during initial investigations. One such site is known as the Dover Mound, a large earthwork located in the state of Kentucky, a site which researchers have attributed to Native Americans. Mound largely believed to have been a burial ground, this due to the 50 or so cremations which have been identified within the mound. Specifically attributed to a group known as the Edina people, however, one skeleton in particular located at the site escapes modern understanding, a seven foot tall giant skeleton of what is claimed as an Edina man was discovered. What was more interesting than his height, however, was his abnormally elongated head and disproportionately large torso in relation to his legs. This is not a unique find, however. Native American burial sites all over America have produced similar remains, yet their origins lack any logical explanation. In Ohio, for example, similar remains were found of incredibly tall men with elongated heads and disproportionately large torsos. The remains were thought to have been of extraterrestrial, but scientific investigation claims to have confirmed these are definitely human remains. Archaeologists are still continuing to find similar remains at Native American burial mounds all over the country, and indeed globally, so the possibility that these remains are instead the remnants of a once global, now lost civilization is still a topic of debate, one which has compelling supporting arguments. One additional site in particular was found in New York, an archaeological dig made in 1971 at a Native American burial ground unearthed more than 200 giant skeletons, some of which measured nine feet in height. It was estimated at the time that the remains could have been up to 9,000 years old, yet predictably the remains, although widely reported in the media, have subsequently vanished. Were these remains left by a now lost yet once global civilization, we find their discovery all over the states and indeed worldwide highly compelling.


Welcome to News Clicks Show Mapping Fault Lines where we look at geopolitical issues across the world. Today we are going to be looking at a very different kind of fault line December 30th marks the first anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern. Now one year later we see the numbers over 90.8 million doses of the vaccine or various vaccines have been delivered across the world. Over the year a lot of questions have been raised on the kind of global order that has emerged out of this pandemic about the WHO itself, about the distribution of vaccines, about the relationships between countries on this and we have with us Prabir Prakash to talk about this. Prabir, thank you so much for joining us. So first of all the key question here is vaccines. As we see this chart does not paint a very inspiring picture because of course the data is not available for many countries but nonetheless it doesn't really look like a large number of people across the globe are close to getting the vaccines or are getting these vaccines whereas some sections are really getting them in large numbers. So could you first maybe take us through the kind of dynamics of this distribution of vaccines right now. Let's take a little step back and look at the pandemic itself in the last one year. We are now approaching 1 million deaths. We also see that even in the United States where according to this map vaccines are getting increasingly available or in UK for instance or in the European Union that the numbers of infected is still high. So in fact the US still has the highest number of infected per day new cases and UK is pretty high on that list too. So that is one part that the pandemic still is raging in different parts of the world and we recently have for instance cases of new variants emerging and we don't know to what extent the existing vaccines will work or to the extent they will work. I think they will work but with maybe different levels of efficacy given the fact that vaccine versus viruses is going to be an evolutionary war. So that is one part of it and it's also very clear that without vaccines the so-called herd immunity is not going to emerge. So all this Barrington declaration etc. etc. has been going around. People in India saying maybe Delhi has herd immunity. All this is clear now that this is only cyclical up and down of the numbers and if we don't have vaccines the numbers can again search in different parts at different points of time. This is a nature of the epidemic. It's not that this is something unusual. This is what happens in all epidemics and this is because in human terms the human interactions and the virus interactions cannot be defined in this particular way. Oh you know everything is fine because the numbers are coming down. So this is the general picture within which we are talking about the distribution of vaccines. Now as you can see it's very clear that countries have secured vaccines have placed orders on vaccines while other countries have none. This is the general picture and of course the hardest hit are for instance African countries which don't seem to be getting access to vaccines readily. As you can see the Africa is the entire African continent is virtually without at least known deliveries of vaccines. Some vaccines yes but most countries don't seem to be having access to vaccines right now over there. There are of course outliers that India might be otherwise not the richest of countries but India has strong vaccine manufacturing companies so India seems to be slightly better placed in that. We also have Brazil which the president has been strongly against the Chinese vaccines but the point is the only vaccines Brazil seems to be readily getting access to is the Chinese vaccines. So it seems now they have reconciled themselves in spite of their opposition to China and Bolsonaro being firmly with the Trump administration's positions accepting that if they have to vaccinate the people they have to accept Chinese vaccines. So there is a mixed picture on that but it's very clear when you look at the other picture which you have here can you go to the next slide. If we look at this slide which you have this shows very clearly that countries have some have 200 300 percent the number of vaccines they need because they have taken a bet when the vaccines were being developed and some countries have compared to the population have maybe 5 percent 10 percent some none. This is the global scenario that is emerging and we have it has given rise to what has been termed different ways vaccine nationalism. I will go a step further and we'll say vaccine grabbing and in the free for all those of financial muscle are cornering the market in fact having surplus vaccines though they're not able to distribute it they have those vaccines blocked booked but they're not able to distribute at the moment because the delivery systems are still not functioning that's a different story altogether but it's clear that vaccines the vaccine distribution vaccine vaccine access is completely inequitable and under these conditions we're likely to see the continuation of the pandemic. Absolutely right in this context probably of course there's a world health organization which has its own vaccine initiative as well and we see that it has been severely underfunded has not been getting the kind of contributions it deserves and this also takes us to the other question of the WHO itself we know what the Trump administration did they announced a withdrawal. Biden has of course said that they'll come back said that they will the US has joined the COVAX initiative as well but nonetheless we do see that a global initiative which should have helped in delivering vaccines to the poorer people it remains massively underfunded as of now and this also probably has so how what does this reflect on the state of global health administration so to speak. I think there are two issues one is of course a simple question of equity that okay you've got money so you get more of the vaccines we understand that but at least give some money to those countries who otherwise will not have access to the vaccines and that was thought to be solved by the co-vaccine initiative which WHO had supported which also had philanthropic funds coming into it the real cynical part of all this is a small fraction of the money they're spending on their own vaccine procurement a small fraction of that would have really funded the vaccine initiative the WHO has supported. So as of date they need at least 2 billion doses to fund to give vaccines to 1 billion people which will be about 20% of the population of these countries which don't have access or don't have the resources so that also at the moment they really have not been able to do fulfill that target and in fact the way short of the target so that is one part of it that it's completely underfunded but this is only one part of the picture this is another part of the picture which is this is not enough this is just for procuring the doses but you also need to be able to build the cold chain and deliver it to the people and also provide for the jabs you need equipment for doing that all of that requires extra funds and WHO's act accelerator program which it has supported thinks that it needs about 60 to 70 billion dollars equivalent which is about 68 billion dollars is what it has said it requires to be able to do that neither is that forthcoming that that also hasn't happened so even vaccines are available even then delivering it to the people who need it is not good to happen if that happens what it means is pandemic is going to continue in different parts of the world and if pandemic does continue into the in different parts of the world if you cannot control it then what happens to those countries which think they are protected because they vaccinated themselves comes up and here are the two issues which has also been said by various agencies one is a simple public health issue that given the fact that new viruses is emerging continuously if we do not stop it all over the world the pandemic will really not stop it will at best have lower surges lower numbers of infected but will still continue so we need to tackle this as a worldwide problem not as a in each individual country looking after themselves and that's where the word vaccine nationalism really emerged from that vaccine nationalism doesn't solve a global public health problem and secondly what now the IMF to international chamber of commerce have started saying that this is a global problem and if we do not solve it globally then neither will the economies of the world recover pandemic will continue will the global economy will not recover and interestingly what they have also shown because the global economy is interconnected today the rich countries procure materials including finished goods from various other countries but also produce goods which they then sell back to other countries so this whole chain there's a backward forward linkage and if the countries which are suffering from the pandemic still continues to do so then the economic supply chain as well as the selling both these get affected the economies of the advanced countries will not recover either so interestingly what they have now started saying in this enlightened self-interest and very crudely actual self interest of these countries it is necessary that the countries which are rich also provide for vaccination of the countries which are not and instead of grabbing all the vaccine they should try and see there is at least some equitable distribution of the vaccine and their calculations are very simple they have shown through what are called partial equilibrium models I am not going to get into that or you know the input output come equilibrium models what their model shows that if you take the major flows of commodities and if these are affected because of the pandemic then best case scenario the rich countries would still need will lose a significant part of their ability to produce goods both in terms of raw materials and their markets and if you take that into account that's outstrips by far the amount they will have to spend again the calculations are there you can see it what the international chamber of commerce is produced IMF is also indicated that this is interesting because these are by no means the voices of a liberal shall we say public health voice voice is speaking this is not WHO which could be argued has always had a stake in public health or different kinds of left or social democratic or even liberal opinion which has always talked about public health this is the stern face of capitalism which is IMF or it is international chamber of commerce the business of the club of the rich of the rich companies who are saying and it's interesting to see how they are framing it that is in the it's the interest of big capital rich countries to actually support the vaccines and the vaccine initiative in different parts of the world if they don't do that their economic recovery will also not take place so you know if you remember the United States the famous slogan under Ronald Reagan was that public health is equal to socialist medicine and therefore it is to be opposed in favor of private health care and you had at the time the slogan of better dead than red which was their slogan of course it was in respect to nuclear weapons but this is in in some sense now the IMF as well as the international chamber of commerce promoting public health quote unquote socialized medicine or socialist medicine maybe they need to reinvent the slogan is better red than dead absolutely thank you for being so much for talking to us that's all we have time for today keep watching news click


U.S. Senate blocks Ukraine funding, a spending package proposed by the White House that included over $60 billion in funding for Kiev failed to pass in the Senate, falling short of the 60 votes necessary to proceed. The final vote was 59 in favour and 51 against. The Republican opposition voted against the bill alongside Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who normally votes with the Democrats. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, also voted no so he could bring the bill up again at a later date, according to The Hill. The White House originally requested $105 billion in emergency supplemental national security funding in October, choosing to bundle the aid to Ukraine with money for Israel, Taiwan and border security in order to appeal to Republicans. The GOP majority house has insisted on dealing with each issue in a separate appropriations bill, which the Democrat-dominated Senate refused. Earlier, President Joe Biden urged the Senate to approve the bill, accusing Republicans of wanting to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security in the process and holding the funding for Kiev hostage to border policy. Literally, the entire world is watching. What will the U.S. do? Biden told reporters, suggesting that without American leadership, the G7, the EU and Japan might not continue backing Kiev, effectively delivering a victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin.


Guys, welcome back to the Independent Investor Channel. We're going to kick you in and we're going to cover an 80 stock portfolio. It's a dividend growth portfolio. There's a lot of people trying to make sense of the stock market buying into single stock portfolios with 12, 15, 18 stocks. And they're trying to make sense of that in these markets. You're going to get humbled in markets like that. The tried and true defensive mechanism in stock market investing is true diversification. This is not a representative of that. I don't care how many single stocks you want to try to buy, you are not diversified against market downturns. You can do your research. You may do very well. You may outpace the market for a number of months, maybe even a number of years. But certain schools of thought would challenge my notion that most people fail at that and they will be wrong. Most people fail at that. So if you really look at the statistics and the failure rates of those, you ask yourself, well, what's left, Ryan? What is the order of operations to enter into stock market investing? And I insist that most people can win with their 401k. They're going to get started. They're going to take the free match and they're going to fund their 401k over time. That's great. There's a lot of people that are interested in leveling up and layering their program. And that might come in the form of an individual Roth IRA account. I'm a big proponent to the self-directed approach. Super, super importance to reduce the fees associated with those accounts. And an account like this can be an additional layer to those two preliminary and primary programs. That of which I'm going to demonstrate for you now. It's comprised of the gems in the stock market, some of the biggest, best companies, dividend payers that have paid dividends in some cases over 60 years.  These are the companies that you want to own. If you're going to own companies like this from a single stock perspective, do it my way. I'm not losing sleep. This is easy money. I'm still making dividends. The interest rate goes up. I still make dividends, right? This is value investing 101. Pick these companies that have rewarded shareholders through thick and thin and live to fight another day. It's just that simple. I put it plain and clear out there for you guys. This is investing information and a psychology about markets that anybody can buy into. You do not need to have the experience that I have, although well-versed and tried and true. My style of investing, it works. I'm not one of those proponents of just buying into one philosophy. No matter how insistent they are about their philosophy being the best. I'm not one of those that believes that that's even possible. There are ways of seeking out exposure to the market in a lot of different capacities. The idea is for you to identify what type of investor you want to be and align the products in the right accounts for you that make sense for you and your family. With that guys, we're going to kick you in. We're going to cover the M1 finance dividend portfolio here as it's performed very well through this volatility. It's held up quite nicely. I'll continue to monitor it and I'll fund up as necessary. Guys, enjoy the coverage of the dividend growth portfolio. All right, guys. Welcome into the dividend growth portfolio here. It's going to become very evident very quickly that I'm not panicking out of the stock market. I have not sold my entire portfolio. I am not running for the hills nor am I diving into my prepper bunker. This is investing 101. This comes in line of what I feel like as a layer for investors. I feel like there's an order of operations. What I mean by that is most people should be seeking their exposure in markets using index funds or ETFs up to their first five or 10,000 bucks, maybe even more depending on how you enjoy that type of access to the market and having your dollars fluctuate with the markets. Markets will go up.  Markets go down. Your portfolios will come back with the markets in general. I think that's where the most people need to be looking. The second strategy is dividend growth. Dividend growth is very, very powerful. It's a very wonderful way of growing wealth. M1 Finance makes it extremely easy. Links to this very portfolio, a hybrid version of this with 50 holdings is located in the description. I am affiliated with M1. If you click on the links, I can get paid a little dab of money for providing this insight to you. This insight is my portfolio. I'm a product user, proud M1 Finance recommender. I do have a Robin Hood account. I have a Weeble account. I have a Charles Schwab account. I have a dozen Bank of America accounts. I don't necessarily recommend those. M1 Finance does a wonderful job of providing a platform that allows for successful wealth building for all. Really, it's that simple. Anybody who wants to be involved with stock market investing can do so using the power of M1 Finance. I chronicle these as tutorials for you guys to understand. I do my passive portfolio through the sector specialty ETFs. This is a separate portfolio that I declare to you guys on a fairly frequent basis. Just to check progress and see that it hasn't gone to zero. As a matter of fact, I've had this for just going over since 2019, so just over a couple of years, not too bad. We've got total inflows of just over 18,000 and just shy of 10,000 in gains. This was up above 10,000, mind you, and then a nice stipend dividend. Here's your shy of $750. So nothing too shabby. I built this portfolio when I built it, and I've built it up ever since. Once it's built out, it becomes passive in nature and that you don't have to mess around with this. It can stand the test of time. These companies are built to be put in here and last for 20, 25 years. Easy. It's meant to be hands off. It is. This is meant to generate dividend income. I've split it across all of the sectors here, but if you notice this little bit of a hint to the downside, that's how resilient this portfolio is. I think that's going to be attractive to a lot of people who may potentially look at this as an opportunity to gain access to markets because you've got the 401k in place. You've got the individual Roths in place. Maybe you're looking for an additional layer in your program where you want to add a taxable brokerage account in there. We are looking at that. This is not a Roth. It's a taxable brokerage account. I'm very adamant about buying and holding great companies long term. This holds 80 companies. If you want to ask me if I think that's diversified, I'm going to tell you no. It is not. Single stock holdings with 80 holdings in any one given portfolio is not diversified.  It just doesn't work that way. I'm not trying to seek diversification. I just want to make sure that we're crystal clear on that front that if you're looking to achieve or hold a portfolio like this as your primary portfolio, you would be doing it wrong. And you would be going against what I consider to be a very, very important order of operations in stock market investing. And so far as the masses need to be involved with passive investing using ETFs or index funds. And this is optional. You could have success as a passive investor with no problem without even engaging in a program like I'm declaring to you now. These are for those folks out there that want to add an additional layer to an already existing and established program out there with their retirement accounts. So I really want to make sure that you guys understand how I've dubbed Divvy this up here. I've got this Divvy to cross 10 of the S&P sectors. A couple of them have rolled off just a little bit with the market volatility, no problem. We continue to invest in financial markets and we live to fight another day. Let's cruise up here with as bad as the market's been. And I didn't check this before. I rolled it out to you guys. We do have 80 positions. I don't know why this is showing 79. I don't know. No big deal. Cost of basis of inflows, 24,000 have come into the account. So interesting enough, you can kind of see how some of these holdings have rolled off a little bit. Amgen is down a touch. Some of these are holding in quite nicely with their gains that they made last year, which was fabulous. There's Disney down a little bit here. Okay, so as we scroll through the list, you guys are going to want to key off on these 80 holdings here in the portfolio. What's working and what's not. Their intels rolled off there. A lot of people are thinking that that's a good entry there. I agree. There's Abbott Laboratories. I'm just highlighting the down because as you can see here, there's an awful lot of green in this portfolio too. So, you know, while there's people on YouTube who have been kicked in the face and because they were overlevered to the stock market and they did not know how to handle the volatility that they were going to have thrown at them, they've panicked out of the market. And as you can see here, I don't know why you would justify panicking your way out of the markets with all of this green in the portfolio. Now, this could change. This could change. The whole point to this is to demonstrate that stock market investing doesn't have to be an all-in game. In other words, it doesn't have to be invest at all cost, invest in the maximum amount of risk. And then when it starts to get, you know, when the risk really starts to bite you, you just withdraw everything. The whole idea is to find an even keel approach to the markets and invest accordingly. That's a surprise there with legging flat down little dab. That's interesting enough. And some of these that have been up for a while have kind of rolled off. Obviously, look at the marathon up 50%. That's insane. Really doing well there. And there's Charles Schwab. That's a really nice holding for me. And most of the industrials have rolled off. There's 3M and Caterpillar. These are companies that have been around forever. You know, 3M and Caterpillar, wonderful dividend stocks and Proctor right below it. These are companies that you just hold for the long term. Nice entry here on Starbucks. So as new funds flow into these accounts, they will fund these red holdings. They will go into the lower, the ones that are the most hurt and the monies will flow into, look at Honeywell. What a beautiful company that is. And that's off just a little bit. Then we go into another streak of green here. I'm just kind of cherry picking the red out here and showing you guys every single of the companies that I've identified in red would be companies that you could absolutely invest in. So you look at this and say, man, Ryan's really red in a few of these that he's talking about. They're all investable companies. Every one of them. FedEx, Walmart. These are fabulous. And I don't have to brag myself up on all the green stuff. I'm just going through here and highlighting these companies, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and on the bottom line here with Merck. So as you can see here, the whole idea here, as I've admitted, is not diversification. However, these good established companies, they hold in in markets like this. And they're actually the companies that are the most enjoyable to own because they really do hold up well. And they provide the investor a piece of mind that you just cannot get by overlevering to growth all the time. And it's a fallacy that I see all the time on YouTube. It's no problem. We'll continue to footstomp the message, show people the right way to invest. This doesn't apply to everybody. Passive investing does. I've already caveated that this is provided for those folks out there that already have those existing assets in place through passive investing 401ks are working, Roth IRAs are working, and they're looking for something in way of a single stock portfolio that's comprised of the gems of the stock market. These are wonderful companies. And I've just demonstrated an awesome way to get some exposure here. Just less than 30 grand in this portfolio, nothing crazy. This is not a primary portfolio for me. And I don't presume that it could be for you either. But it does supplement a wonderful layer and a potential for a secondary account that you could add to an existing portfolio as a layer. And M1 makes it happen, guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. All right, guys. So we've come out of the dividend growth portfolio. There's hardly a day goes by that I don't have an alert via email that I'm getting paid dividends. Sometimes it's a couple bucks. Other times it's 10, 12, 15 bucks. I used to work for $5 an hour doing landscaping for my first job. It's amazing to me in retrospect how I can use the power of M1 Finance to provide me access to these gems of the stock market.  Some people will come out with the top three stock picks of the month and all that. I used to do it myself. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of time. This is the way that you seek out your exposure to the markets, man. You can see how many are green in there. Collectively, I'm kicking tail. And when the markets get volatile, that's when you add more to it. It's just that simple. You don't have to sit there and wonder about your 12 or 15 stock portfolio and wonder if you're doing it right. I'm here to tell you you're not. You're doing it wrong. You're not diversified in any capacity. You must be diversified before you engage in even a program like mine. And even with me, I'm the only one on YouTube saying that 80 stocks is not diversified. Okay, I will footstomp that to the ground. All right, while markets start to turn and they start to really perform well, you're going to appreciate that 8% goal that we're shooting for. But if you're trying to stockpick the stock market, I don't care how much due diligence you do. I don't care how good you think you are.  Okay, the unfortunate part about it is people are provided a lot of validation in the short term to think that they've got this thing licked. The quickest realization that you can make in the investing game is understand that you don't own it. You know, don't own it all. The idea is to pick that style that's going to work for you guys and stick with that plan over the long term. Guys, appreciate the message. I want to make sure and subscribe to the independent investor channel. We're putting it down the way it's supposed to be put down for all investors. This is not for just those faint of heart. This is not just for those people who are interested in cryptocurrency. More millionaires were made last year and going into 2022 using the tried and true boring old method of 401k and Roth IRA investing. It's a fact. Look it up. Everything else is less credible. It's just that simple. Guys, if your comments at the bottom, share the message with anybody out there that you know needs an inspiring message with regard to the prospects of investing in the stock market. 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What kind of bullshit? They can spew to distract from the inflation caused by said Democrats. I mean look I think Democrats understand that the stakes are high This is a consequential midterm and we know we have to defy history that being said look at the alternative What are the Republicans? Planted to do to harm you to harm the economy wait wait wait you catch that the Democrat political Propaganda's said that Republicans want to harm you, but that's just totally normal not extreme at all rhetoric when a Democrat does it Who cares if a completely normal Democrat feels justified and defending themselves from the harm being inflicted on them by Republicans Joe Biden has really done a fabulous job I think and making sure that everyday Americans can feel the the the things that he's doing. Oh, yeah They can feel it. All right. Prepare the long rubber glove any mean My name mo I Wonder where my glove will go Joe Biden has really done a fabulous job I think and making sure that everyday Americans can feel the the things that he's doing Whether it's Lauren gas prices remember when gas prices went from 225 a gallon to over $5 a gallon under Biden Which all of these people insisted that he had no control over only to now give him credit when it goes down slightly Thanks in part to him emptying our strategic reserve Which I'm sure won't bite us in the ass ever instead of just incentivizing the reclamation of our own energy from our own land Which he promised to do the opposite of Joe Biden has really done a fabulous job I think fabulous. 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