Andrew Tate recently sat down with Patrick Bet David for the PBD podcast for nearly five hours. In this episode, Andrew Tate discusses all of his social media bands, his beef with Logan Paul, and so, so much more.  And that is a concerning aspect of this man's influence that isn't addressed nearly enough. Within the first 10 minutes of this podcast, Andrew Tate mentions all of the lies, the tyranny, and the control that he believes is behind the government and the social media platforms who are trying to suppress his views. The media machine in synchronization with the band, we can call that coincidence if you want to believe in such things. Now they attacked me with their media machine.   Then they did the massive media push to try and attempt to lie about me. And this is going to have a negative effect on us for a very, very long time. Because when you're in charge of the world, which they are, as soon as you're no longer seen as just and fair, you're seen as tyrannical. And once you're seen as tyrannical, then there's going to be some kind of mass movement against you. Conspiracy theories in the man's sphere are a major issue, and it's extremely dangerous. The man's sphere is fostering a legion of angry young men who believe that the world is out to get them. In a previous video about strategic ignorance, I discussed how people like Andrew Tate say that reading books is a useless activity while they make up theories that have zero evidence. They tell young men how much better women have it, even though each of their arguments are easily disproven with facts and evidence. This is dangerous because when you're telling a massive audience of young men what they quote unquote deserve and what they are owed, while also telling them that another group is holding them down, it leads to terrible outcomes. These men end up doing exactly the opposite of what people like Andrew Tate supposedly advocate for, which is personal responsibility and not blaming the world for all of your problems. Now they attacked me with their media machine. We're going to break down some of Andrew Tate's conspiracy theories from this episode and the misinformation from this podcast about his band. And why are we starting there? Well, because in order to realize just how much bad information and terrible logic this guy Andrew Tate spreads, you can start catching all of the other conspiracy theories that he weaves in. But before we get started, if you're new here, welcome to the rewired soul. My name is Chris. Make sure you subscribe. I love making videos talking about a variety of different topics. One of the things that I am passionate about is stopping the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories and trying to understand why people believe them, how to fact check these things and all of that. All right. So make sure that you're subscribed and for all of you who are subscribed, make sure you're following me on social media. Well, if you're not subscribed, make sure you follow me on social media too. It's at the rewired soul. But as I've mentioned, I'm experimenting with some things with the channel. So you might not get a notification or see this video in your subscription feed. So make sure you're following me at the rewired soul so you don't miss anything. All right. And also real quick, as I mentioned, this is a five hour podcast episode. I have a lot more that I can pull from. So do me a favor. If you end up enjoying this episode, make sure you leave a comment or leave a like just so I know if you want me to do a deeper dive and discuss some other aspects of this, like, you know, everything going on with Andrew Tate and Logan Paul, some topics around free speech and should he be banned because there's actually a lot of different topics to dive into. So let me know by leaving a comment or liking the video just so I can make some more content for you guys. All right. So after Andrew Tate starts talking about and kind of poisoning the well that the government and the social media platforms are out to get him, they bring up this guy, Alex Berenson, who was talking about COVID and how it spreads and how the vaccines don't stop transmission on Twitter. Did you follow the story? I don't know the exact story now. So he was on Joe Rogan. If you've not seen it, I highly recommend you watch this. So he is saying things about Twitter. As a matter of fact, the tweet that got him in trouble, got him his fifth strike was the following tweet. We can put this up there because I'm just reading what he said. This is a tweet he put out that he said it doesn't stop infection or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it as at best a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effects profile that must be dose in advance of illness. And we want to mandate it in sanity. That's his tweet. So he gets banned. Thanks a lot, sense to me. In December of last year, which was six months after when Biden said anybody who allows debate of vaccine should be banned or shouldn't be allowed. Meaning there shouldn't be any of that. So six months after that, he gets banned. In April, a judge in California, California is believe it or not a very big freedom of speech place because they allow protesting.  So they kind of protected themselves, but Alex was able to go all the way because of this court judge that was appointed by Clinton, not judge, not Obama or Trump. So right here, Patrick Bet David starts talking about how they took this to court and how this was six months after Joe Biden said something about banning people from social media who are spreading COVID misinformation. All right. Then you notice that Patrick starts connecting these dots about a Clinton appointed judge and how Alex was then put back on the platform. And now Alex talks about the government and all these other things, which was six months after when Biden said anybody who allows debate of vaccine should be banned or shouldn't be allowed. Meaning there shouldn't be any of that. Then from here, he uses that to transition into Andrew Tate's ban. All right. This is what's known as connecting the dots and conspiracy theorists absolutely love doing this. They will take completely different things with one connecting point and say, see, it's the exact same thing. And that is a big red flag that you're dealing with at conspiracy theorists, but we need to discuss what they're actually talking about. What happened to this guy, Alex Berenzen? Well, here is a little clip from a New York Times article that kind of summarizes it. Just before boarding Marine One for a weekend in Camp David in Maryland, Mr. Biden was asked what his message was to social media platforms when it comes to COVID-19 disinformation. Quote, they're killing people. He said, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated and that and they're killing people. So there's a lot to take away from this. All right. So we have found out that getting the vaccine does not stop the spread of transmission. Okay. Especially with new variants coming out and everything like that, but everybody should be vaccinated because it greatly reduces the chances of severe illness or even death. Okay. And I hope you all realize too, since we don't have a nationalized health care system because this country is ruled by capitalism with all of the unvaccinated people who are constantly filling up these hospitals because they're sick with COVID, that is jacking up health care costs. And it's also putting a lot of stress on these hospitals. And we're seeing nurses strike and everything like that because they've been overloaded for the past two years by people who are unvaccinated. So was what Biden said, technically correct, not entirely, but there are a lot of different ways to look at this. But the issue that comes from what Patrick was saying about this is that we have to understand that there is a major difference. There was a major difference between something like what Alex Berenson was saying about how the vaccine does not stop transmission. There's a difference between that and what conspiracy theorists like Russell Brand are putting up on YouTube every single day. Okay. And that's one of the issues is when you're connecting dots like this, you're taking completely different scenarios. You're not providing any nuance. And you're saying, look, these are the same things when they're not within the conspiracy and misinformation world. There are many different people, many different layers, many different stories, many different narratives and all of that.  There's a lot of people who have already made videos about this or they've discussed this on podcasts, but the information is regularly changing. And that is why I always say you should follow the experts and see what the consensus is around these topics. But anyways, like I said, Patrick Bet David uses the Alex Berenson story to then switch over to Andrew Tate and his social media bands, even though they are two completely different things. And this is when Andrew Tate starts spewing out like a fire hose discussing what happened to him and how these social media companies operate. I believe there's huge pressure behind the dam in regards to the fact that everybody understands that these places are tyrannical and that they control ideas and that they force narratives. And I use my wording as the matrix. I call them the matrix and people say me, why do you call them the matrix? And I say, because they project a false version of reality in real time that people subscribe to. If there wasn't an absolute blacklist on all opposing views during COVID-19, that would never have gone on for as long as it did. They went on for as long as it did and they managed to purport a false version of reality for so long because you couldn't discuss the opposing side. Hi, editing Chris here again. I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but real quick, something else that you'll hear a lot, especially, especially from COVID vaccine conspiracy theorists is how many views and how many opinions were suppressed. Now, were there bands? Yes, absolutely. But if you look, you can go back, you can search through the history. People like Russell Brand and some of these quack doctors out there and people like Brett Weinstein, none of them were ever banned. They didn't get a strike. Nothing happened to suppress their opinions. So if you were only listening to people like Andrew Tate, you would think that they were just out there with a button and just boom, boom, blocked, blocked all over the place. And this is not what happened. Okay. Look into it, go back, search the history. There are people, especially, especially Russell Brand, who I recently made a video about. They said this from the start to the finish of the entire COVID pandemic when it was at its worst. So no, not everybody was being suppressed the way these conspiracy theorists say they are. And the reason they say this is because they want to give the idea that they're trying to get out the truth, but people are against them. And in this next segment, I talk a little bit about that kind of story that they tell. So first off, yes, social media platforms have major issues, a ton of issues. Their algorithms are terrible. They put you into bubbles and all sorts of things. But what you need to understand about Andrew Tate and all the people who are free speech warriors is that what they're saying is easily falsifiable. All right. Take one second. Just stop and ask yourself, how am I hearing this information that is coming out of Andrew Tate's mouth right now? You are hearing it on a social media platform. Just take a step back and realize that this is so easily falsifiable. They are openly saying the exact things on social media that they say is being censored. And for some reason, the people who fall for the conspiracy theories of Andrew Tate, they don't think about that for just one second. If you're hearing someone say something on social media that they say is sent is going to be censored, there is an issue and they're clearly wrong. And by the way, just jumping back in here while I'm editing to clarify. Yes, Andrew Tate was banned. You can call that censorship. But I'm specifically pointing out that they're having conversations around COVID-19 information and they're saying you get banned for what they're talking about. There are many, many other people who do this, including people like Russell Brand, Brett Weinstein and so many others who are within that space. I recently finished one of my favorite books on the psychology of conspiracy theories called Suspicious Minds. And one of the things they talk about is how conspiracy theories, they really love stories. They fall for narratives and that completely makes sense. And one of the things the book talks about is the whole David and Goliath story. People love it. It's the little guy versus the big guy. And as you have seen throughout all of these Andrew Tate clips, he's the little guy. The social media platforms are the big guy. This is how a lot of conspiracy theorists get their massive followings because they believe that they are supporting David against the big Goliath, which is the social media platforms or it is the government. But you need to understand that these individuals like Andrew Tate, they are also Goliaths. They have massive followings and are making millions of dollars off of all the people who are falling for this narrative that they're just being suppressed and they're just trying to spread the truth and they're just trying to help people. The reality is, is that 90% of what they're saying is purely out of self-interest and how much money goes into their bank accounts. Already I've moved to Rumble. I only had 738,000 subscribers on my YouTube after five years of work. Post ban, I moved to Rumble, which is a YouTube competitor. Stock price has gone up 36%. And I'm at half a million subscribers in two weeks. So if you're interested in debunking conspiracy theories and spotting misinformation, this is the perfect clip because what Andrew Tate just said is extremely misleading. And it is about as close to the line of misinformation as you could possibly get. Okay. So Andrew Tate says that Rumble stock is massively up and Google stock is down. Okay. So here's a brief breakdown. I am not a finance expert, but I am an investor and I know quite a bit about stocks and how all this stuff works.  What's the matter? All right. So I'm going to try to break this down real quick. So if a company is private, you cannot buy stock in that company. You can only be a private investor. Okay. This is when like venture capitalists come in or just people with a lot of money or angel investors, all sorts of stuff. That is private companies in order for a stock price to be up in the way that Andrew Tate is saying the company has to be public. So we need to ask is Rumble a publicly traded company? You can go right now, type into Google Rumble stock. Okay. You'll find a stock that says Rumble on that is not the Rumble that Andrew Tate is talking about. When I did this, when I went to fact check him, I got a little curious.  So check out this article from seeking alpha. It is an investing website. So it says, in December, 2021, Rumble announced a definitive business combination agreement with CF acquisition corp VI shareholders must approve the deal on a vote schedule to close on September 15th. And a little bit more information on this, a big key to where the stock trades following the approval of the SPAC deal are the actual financials. Rumble is still in the startup phase and the public market isn't very forgiving of money losing stocks right now. Then if you actually go to Rumble's Twitter account, you can see right there in the bio, the next generation of video and cloud news, Rumble to combine with NASDAQ listed CF VI. So what does this all mean in order for Rumble to have a publicly traded stock, which they do not have right now, they need to get bought out by CF VI, which the private investors are voting on on September 15th, which at the time of recording this is tomorrow. So if this goes down, then Rumble will kind of be a publicly traded company. So let's break that down real quick. This deal has not closed yet. CF VI, the company that is possibly buying out Rumble is a publicly traded company. So yes, CF VI stock went up and it went up a lot. It's over 30% in the last month, which is huge. But since CF VI does not own Rumble yet, what you are seeing is that people are speculatively investing in the company that plans on buying out Rumble. So it is extremely misleading to say that quote, Rumble stock is massively up. Again, like I said, what you have to do if you want to catch conspiracy theorists and people who spread misinformation, you have to catch all of the little things, all the little tiny things, you got a fact check, it takes two seconds. I always say it takes two seconds to look into these things. The whole Rumble thing going down took me maybe five to 10 minutes. We can't just sit back and passively listen to this. But the problem is that a lot of people in Andrew Tate's following a lot of people who follow the Manisphere bros are just listening to this stuff and taking it in. But I think the absolute craziest part about this is that these guys, Andrew Tate and Patrick, the host, they're actively talking about how they're unfairly censored by social media platforms because they're just spreading the truth. They're not spreading misinformation. But as you can see, you fact check them for one second and you're like, wait, what you just said is false. So again, they advocate for personal responsibility and not blaming the whole world for your problems. But they are regularly looking at these things through this lens as a freaking victim. And it is mind boggling. So anyways, this was just the first like 15 to 20 minutes of that podcast episode that was like five hours. So if you like this, if you're interested in me diving deeper into this, like I wouldn't make like 10 videos on this, I'll probably just do one big one, pull some of the important parts, do a video essay on it. So if you're interested in that, leave a like, leave a comment. Let me know. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up anyways. And if you're new, make sure you subscribe to everybody who is subscribed. 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Okay, so we're live and I'm gonna start sharing the screen so we know what we're talking about. Share. So I hope you can see me in a minute. Then you have to confirm that you can actually see my screen. No, I can't see it. Okay, very good. So it's me, Evelina, John and Thorsten at the meeting today so far. We have a couple of small issues that I want to discuss, nothing really crazy, but the first announcement that I wanted to make is that I managed to get permissions for Jenkins YouTube channel so I'm able to handle Hangout on Earth from now on which is very good and I want to thank Oleg and the other people that helped me to deal with it very quickly. So that's it and yeah, Thorsten, you wanted to say something, right? Yes, I just saw that there's quite some PRs. You put one of mine already on the list, with the configuration as code, with the reload functionality and I think I created another one which just adds some table configurations and if I remember correctly, one of the contributors already approved it, but it's not being merged so I just wanted to ask what's the normal procedure over there. Which one is the other one you were talking about? I think it was for a key clock, AC2, the 707. Yeah, so now it is failing for some reason. The procedure is pretty simple. Whenever I have time to go through the PRs, I do it. I don't want to use the same excuse all the time, but I just had a couple of rough months when it comes to my apartment and because of this whole mess, the list of PRs is just long and waiting. So you did everything you should have done. Maybe in that specific case, it would be great if you could kind of re-trigger the build or have a look at why the How can I re-trigger it? The re-trigger is maybe a too big of a word for that one. You basically have to push another commit to that branch and it may be, I don't know, it's a small documentation change or whatever. Not the change in functionality, but the way it works now, you can't simply click re-trigger button, rebuild button. You have to push another button. I see. Are there any tests at all for the demos? Because I haven't seen those and I just added demos. That's why I'm asking. I'm sorry, I don't think I understand your question. If you have any unit tests or so for the demos folder because I just added files to the demo configurations. No, I mean, sometimes it's the build fails for some real reason and we just have to look at it. Okay, I'm going to re-trigger. Yeah, I mean, that's the easiest one. It fails again. Let's see. We have a problem. It fails sometimes. But this time when it cannot be built, I really can't see what's the problem. So I mean, that's not the one we usually had. It's a demo folder though. I mean, the most changes. So only markdown files you edited, then I guess just put up and we're still going. So it's just in the waiting list for it to be merged. It's going to happen. I mean, in the end, what I did there was just I played around with configuration as code locally and I thought it might be worth sharing those examples so that others have it easier to do. In regards to the test or the demos, there are some. I remember there was a PR that we talked about during the Jenkins world with some bats tests. I can't remember how far that went, but that looked very promising for basic syntax testing. And then there's the unit test during the source file itself or the source code itself. There are unit tests for all different kinds of configurations. Those ones I've seen. Yeah. But again, to summarize, I'm going to merge that PR since it's only a change in markdown files. So we don't expect the build issue to be caused by that commit. So that one will be taken care of quite fast. So there is this validate demos from Jenkins Octoberfest, but it's still working for years and I don't think there was any activity happening lately. So I may check with Victor if they are going to continue. Should we take over and what are the stages? Because I've seen that I've been there too and it sounded like a really great idea what they were doing. So yeah, a couple of small things that I wanted to at least mention is that I talked with Oleg a number of times regarding handling security issues and I promised I will be taking care of that. I got an access to security issues on JIRA thanks to Daniel and I will try to work on those whenever I have time. But those issues are not available for everyone. So it's not like any of you can just simply go there and pick up an issue, a security related to jacuzzi and work on it if you're interested in that. But I just wanted to make it clear that I have the access now so if any of you is interested in working fixing security issues, just let me know on Gita or email or whatever way you want to contact me and I'll try to make it happen. I again have to check with Daniel what's the procedure of introducing the new contributor to that. But I just wanted to let you know. I know if there are security issues now and if you're interested in working with security programs, just let me know. So that's one thing. The other thing is we were discussing the idea of introducing Groovy attribute or root element, Groovy script element in Jenkins YAML that will allow Jenkins to run Groovy scripts. And the motivation behind that was that we have in Ruby scripts working for Jenkins and there is a lot of people using those and there is a lot of people mixing Jenkins configuration as code and Groovy scripts because not all the plugins are supported yet. But one of the very nice big features is the fact that you don't have to restart Jenkins to reapply a new configuration after you introduce the change and it is required when you run when you use any Groovy scripts. So introducing support for Groovy script in Hellcast would allow all of those people that are using Groovy scripts to real their configuration without restarts and that's great. But we had some our reasons for not wanting it to be a part of Jenkins configuration as code plugin. And I think we all agreed on the way forward which was creating a separate plugin that will just provide support for that and can be contributed to Jenkins configuration as code. And Tomek started working on that but I'm not sure how far he is but we have a question and I would like to hear your opinion. So we in the repository we keep configuration as code support plugin and he was wondering if he's Jenkins Groovy plugin that will provide a functionality that I was just talking about if it could be a part of configuration as code plugin repository or should it be kept separately. And since this is my first Jenkins plugin I can't really say I know how it usually works and I was wondering if any of you have any idea or any opinion regarding the putting Jenkins Groovy plugin inside configuration as code repository or it shouldn't be completely separate. So anyone? It makes sense keeping it in the repository but not as part of the core Jcast plugin but it's possible to do it like the support plugin. Exactly so that makes sense to me because it only this plugin exists solely for the purpose of assisting Jcast so it doesn't make sense to have it as a separate plugin. So the way we have configuration is code plugin folder we have support folder we could have groovy folder and this is the place where he could keep his plugin. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay I will just make sure we know. Part of that depends on who's maintaining it as well. So if it goes into the configuration as code plugin it would come so issues would likely come to configuration as code and it depends on whether you're able to support it or at least the the rest of all at least on triaging issues as well. So certainly it's simpler for users it's simpler for building a plugin if it's all in the same repo but it may add more complexity in the long run as well with people thinking it's part of the core and that it's maintained by the core maintainers where it may not be. Yeah I see your point. I see your point Tim and I kind of concur my point was basically just not to be part of the core if it's a totally separate plugin whatever but since it's basically just part of the Jcast it could be a sub component like a support but yeah true maintainer issues. There is already a separate configuration as code plugin for AWS secrets I think. So it's not the first specific configuration as code plugin that's separate. Okay I wasn't aware of that but whatever somebody has to be first movers. It's fine by me if it's separate. So you said that there is already a plugin that is kind of Jcast dedicated but and it's kept in a separate repository. Yeah it's configuration as code ecc I think. Configuration as code secret ecc plugin it's something to do with AWS and secrets. Okay. There's another secret source. We'll have to look into that. Heavy users of AWS. Yeah and configuration as code plugin support is kind of camped by the same team that works on configuration as code or at least originally so I think it does make sense to keep it where it is but yes that's let's not let's not create more confusion and if we have plugins that are being kept separately let's keep it the same way with the Jcast could be flagged in. So I'm gonna let so much know that's our view regarding that. And the configuration as support plugin that already causes a lot of confusion because it's not automatically installed but it's needed for a lot of work. It's needed for a lot of things. Hopefully it's not going to be required at some point. It will take some time but yes that's the way it was designed so make sure we help all the people that can't configure jobs because they didn't know the configuration as support is required. And maybe yeah maybe some documentation updates to make it not not clear that this one is most commonly required but installed separately manually. Clearly. Okay and then we have a number of pull requests or issues. First one is this allow three that I wanted to hear your opinion again allow triggering reload from local machine without authentication. So I immediately think about security when I see issue like that feature like that and yeah you address the security concern somehow. I can explain a little bit if you want because I created the PR. Yeah if you can very briefly go through that I think that would be great for everyone who may be listening an hour later. So basically what I'd like to achieve is to have the configuration as code within Kubernetes so if I use a ham chart to install in Jenkins and whenever I do a change to the configuration as code which is just a config map I'd like to automatically reload. For reload like it is now you need the now dedicated users and a token for that one which is not so easy if you just install the machine because you need the user already there and there's no way to automatically get a token. Someone explained away how you can get SSH keys but still you need to know a user and maybe that user needs to log in at least once so that Jenkins is aware of it which might be cause trouble if you're not using the embedded user database for example a few keys or whatever. So what it does it basically just adds a different endpoint which says reload and you can just post to it and it will reload the configuration but default that one is disabled so there's I introduce another property where you have to explicitly enable that one and only if it's enabled then you can call it without authentication and it's also checking if the call is coming from the local machine which should be fine in most cases. I mean the from resource is an example where they do it similarly. I mean they are not even checking for the local machine because they say okay you can enable that feature and all you can do is reload the configuration so maybe add some load to the instance itself for reloading but if the configuration is incorrect it will not be applied at all. Typically the configuration location is something which you control and if someone gets access to that one you've got different problems anyhow. So triggering it from localhost without that authentication should be okay in most cases I assume but I still want that people have to be opt-in to this option because if you're running the for example Apache and Jenkins on the same machine then triggering from localhost might not be wished because localhost could then be the Apache load balance in front of it therefore you have to opt in and if it's not activated then it behaves just like now and you've got a 404 not authenticated. Yeah I'm kind of convinced but team or John do you have any comment team you were commenting in that PR before so let me just have a look can you scroll down a little bit on that yeah not huge either way so there's another PR that's quite similar which adds a pipeline step for it yes so I'm not I think I think it's a big need so there's definitely a need for making it easier to reload configuration yes it's a little bit difficult now CLI can be a bit difficult it's quite often blocked on on your reverse proxy and so agents may not be able to access it so yeah there's definitely a need to solve here and whether we allow no authentication or not and certainly wasn't against them making it easier to remove so you don't have to include the crumb but I thought that was definitely worth making easier to use API but yeah I'm just not sure whether you should be able to do it without authentication it should be safe though because your your configuration has to be protected so I don't know whether it's a big issue to allow users to be able to reload it without authentication the only potential problem is denial of service I would say this is probably the biggest issue I think if the configuration is stored on the same machine as Jenkins as soon as you get access to that one I can as well just play around with the configuration itself and make myself an administrator so that's why it's not about it's not about the configuration it's about asking Jenkins to do all of its reloading there's a whole bunch of changes there which are probably slightly disruptive or so they're not there's causing load on Jenkins that may or may not be good if someone can just keep hitting their endpoints that's right especially if you do want to enable it but you are behind a reverse proxy which is making you localhost so that would be where authentication would prevent that sort of attack but typically I mean the load balancer is hopefully not on the same machine that's why I said for me it's an opt-in I live from I can hear some scratching and I don't know which one of you make the noise but please mute unless you talk sorry for interrupting please continue I mean there's a similar issue which is just proposing to watch for file system changes I suppose that would also be an option to implement it but then you have to pay attention if you've got multiple configuration file one has already changed the other has none do you retrigger then and the file system watching might be different on Windows Linux and so on and this one just gives people a little bit of flexibility how they want to re-trigger it security wise yeah I'm not I'm not strong either way so it's kind of down to Carolina or if you want to get any input from the likes of Daniel Beck or anyone yeah I am I think I will try to pull Oleg on that because he's he's he's very interested in the security of the plugin and for for well a couple of reasons so I as I say I am in favor and I do understand the need and I'm I'm unhappy that we don't have this this feature working well so far but I don't want to create more mess so I will I will take that to to Oleg who is a core developer and he he's absolutely makes sense and I mean if you decide that it would make more sense to have an API token for that one and for example just provide an additional track on the comment line where you specify the token you can only call that one with a token that would also be fine I mean I can easily make that adjustment if needed that is great to know and then like the meeting is being recorded so Oleg would be able to follow the the discussion if he finds time for that so I'm gonna check with him if he can suggest someone else to to have a look at it but thanks all for the for the input and well thanks for implementing that I'm pretty sure we can make it happen maybe with some small adjustments but let's see let's see how it looks so yeah I will just make no okay then we have a step to reload and this is is it the same functionality kind of it's just a different trigger I mean what they are doing is yeah it's running inside of the pipeline and yeah again team you are you are asking the security how safe is that uh already yeah so so my main problem with it was it allows you to override the target whereas I think if you're not in an administrative context you shouldn't be able to change it so I think it's quite reasonable just to allow reload because that allows sort of webhook integration if you're using a remote file you can just trigger a webhook which will just run and safely reload it but I didn't like the that the user could override override the targets which could allow you to change the pipeline and change the files change the authentication yeah yeah you can certainly change the authentication for Jenkins by allowing you to override the target okay but I mean um I think that one is basically the same comment as above so how do I do it here except you log into Jenkins when you're running it it's already it's slightly different security wise but it's still probably it's still good to get Oleg's view on it but I think it's I think that one's safer as long as you can't reload if you can't as long as you can't change the files like change which files are loaded yeah but I mean I like if you and I mean it can always change the content of the file like very radically and then reload it and then still you can mess up the configuration quite but then the security of the configuration file is I mean yeah it's not but typically I mean as long as the administrator has to specify the configuration location during startup I mean he's in charge to ensure that that's this is a safe place yeah the issue I see if you can override the location then it suddenly becomes an unsafe place where the configuration is the one potentially I'm happy with that PR if some changes are made that the target that you can't change the targets but I think it would be a good addition okay I'll put a comment in that one so so Daniel will know and what do we have here so that was there about plug-in plug-in developers being able to make sure that what they export is what they expect and that it actually works currently there is a little bit of documentation there but it's using a restricted API it's using the output screen so it's it's not the best API it's restricted and there is documentation saying you can do this but it's not it's not finished um and I also had problems trying to use it but I think someone else managed it worked for their plug-in so I'm not quite sure so who's that he's a student at a university working on a doing adding configuration as core support to a plug-in okay it means it by someone in the community yeah so I um there's an issue you reported and that's it for now you are you so sorry I couldn't quite actually all that sorry so uh yeah because I got a little bit confused so this is a this is an issue you're reporting and are you are you planning to work on that or are you just making sure you're aware of the issue and yeah probably a little bit of getting to the design of whether we want to keep using what's in the documentation there or create a new API that plugins can use it's easier to use um and whether it's something that we want plugins to be doing um because it's kind of unclear in the documentation at the moment mm-hmm yeah I mean in general we like some documentation updates are really required so uh we will we will try to I mean the world I will try to work on that too but thanks for explaining that and then I uh I hope we'll we'll get to that part um is there anything else that is not on the list that any of you would like to talk about so I take it as a no thank you so much for sharing your view on uh I'm going to close the meeting now uh I will talk to Olek when I have a chance when he has a time for that and we'll see where it goes and the next meeting will have a different time unless any of you feel that there is a need to to have a meeting earlier because whatever reason let's just so uh I'm going to stop the talk and I will thank you thank you for your time see you


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And we shall also have a brief discussion about inner line permit that is mentioned in this news article. The relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. See, in part 10 of Indian constitution, we have articles 244 and 244A. This part 10 provides a special system of administration for certain areas that are designated as scheduled areas and tribal areas. And for this purpose, we have the sixth schedule of Indian constitution that deals with the administration of tribal areas in the four not eastern states, which are Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Misuram. So, simply put, under the sixth schedule, a special form of administration is envisaged for the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Misuram. See, the tribes in all these four states have not assimilated the life and ways of the people of rest of India. Their way of life is much different from the rest of the country. So, in order to protect the people and the culture, certain tribal areas in these states are recognized under the sixth schedule. So, this is the basis for having the sixth schedule in Indian constitution. So, what are the special features of administration provided under the schedule? Let us see them now. See, the tribal areas in these four states have been constituted as autonomous districts. Here, one thing which you should note is that, though they are autonomous districts, they do not fall outside the executive authority of the concerned state. Next, know that the governor of the state concerned is empowered to organize and reorganize the autonomous districts. And if at all there are different tribes in a single autonomous district, then the governor can divide that particular district into several autonomous regions. Know that each autonomous district has a district council. This district council consists of 30 members, where four are nominated by the governor and the remaining 26 members are elected on the basis of adult franchise. Now, coming to the term of office of the members, the elected members hold office for a term of five years and the nominated members hold office during the pleasure of the governor. Next, know that each autonomous region also has a separate regional council. So, the district and the regional councils administered the areas that come under their jurisdiction. They can make laws on certain specified matters like land, forests, canal water, social customs, etc. But if you see whatever laws made by these councils required the ascent of the governor. Next, if you see the district and the regional councils can also constitute village councils or courts for trial of suits and cases between the tribes. And the jurisdiction of high court over these suits and cases is specified by the governor of the state concerned. Next, if you see the district council can also establish construct or manage primary schools, dispensaries, markets, ferries, fisheries, roads and so on in the district. It can also make regulations for the control of money lending and trading by the non-tribals. And as usual, whatever regulations made by the district council required the ascent of the governor of that particular state. Next, if you see the district and the regional councils are also empowered to assess and collect land revenue and they also are empowered to impose certain specified taxes. So, these are some of the powers of the district and the regional councils. Next, know that the acts of parliament or the acts of the state legislature do not apply to the autonomous districts or autonomous regions or sometimes they are applicable with certain specified modifications and exceptions. Next, know that the governor can appoint a commission to examine and report on any matter relating to that administration of the autonomous districts or regions. And the governor may dissolve district council or a regional council based on the recommendations of the commission. So, from our discussion so far, you can tell that the tribal areas under the six schedule provide for a local self-government with more autonomy. Importantly, they enjoy legislative, executive and even certain judicial powers. Now, coming to the news article, as we saw earlier the cabinet of the state government of Arunachal Pradesh has decided to ask the central government to provide six schedule protection to Arunachal Pradesh. And as we saw earlier, there are four states that have tribal areas under the six schedule which are Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Visoram. So, remember this from exam perspective. Next, if you see in Indian constitution there is one more special provision for Arunachal Pradesh with respect to the law and order in the state. According to article 371 H, the governor of Arunachal Pradesh asked the special responsibility with respect to law and order in Arunachal Pradesh. He asked the executive powers to maintain law and order in Arunachal Pradesh. So, this is one more special provision that you need to know with respect to Arunachal Pradesh. And apart from this, if you see this news article also tells that the state of Arunachal Pradesh has inner line permit system. So, what is this inner line permit? Know that it is an official travel document that is required by Indians other than the natives of the states for entering the state. As of now, if you see the inner line permit is applicable in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Visoram. And the permission is issued by the concerned state government. So, these are some of the aspects that you need to know about the state of Arunachal Pradesh from problem's perspective. We saw about the six cadute status which Arunachal Pradesh is demanding and next we saw about the inner line permit system and article 371 H that is concerned with Arunachal Pradesh. Now, have a look at this practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article discusses about the comments made by the National Green Tribunal on National Clean Air Program. So, let us discuss about this National Clean Air Program from problem's perspective and during the course of discussion, we will see what this news article tells. The relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. Know that National Clean Air Program was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. See the main goal of this National Clean Air Program is to meet the prescribed annual average ambient air quality standards at all locations in the country in a stipulated time frame. So, what is the aim? The aim of this program is to reduce the particulate matter 2.5 and the particulate matter 10 that is PM 2.5 and PM 10 air pollution by 20 to 30 percentage and this is to be achieved by the year 2024. So, you can see that this National Clean Air Program is a mid-term five-year action plan. But if you see various international experiences and studies indicate that significant outcomes in terms of air pollution initiatives are visible only in the long-term. So, we can expect that this program might further be extended to 20 to 25 years in the long-term after a mid-term review of the outcomes. And this is what the National Clean Tribunal has also told. Why? Because it has criticized the report of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change telling that achieving this 20 to 30 percentage pollutant reduction is unrealistic. Now, let us come back to the program. See this program has three main objectives. First one is stringent implementation of mitigation measures to prevent control and abate air pollution. The next objective is to augment and strengthen effective ambient air quality monitoring network across India and based on this network a comprehensive and reliable database on air quality will be built. And the third and the final objective is to create public awareness and to have capacity building measures. And this will include data dissemination, public outreach programs, so that the public can participate. And it will also include having trained manpower and infrastructure to reduce air pollution. So, these are the three main objectives of this National Clean Air Program. So, what are the focus areas of this program? They are called the non-attainment cities. These are those cities which has been identified by the Central Pollution Control Board where the prescribed national ambient air quality standards are violated. So, under this program, the overall plan includes 102 non-attainment cities that are from 23 states and union territories. In this list, if you see the state of Maharashtra has 17 cities. And surprisingly, if you see it does not include any cities from certain states like Kerala, Manipur, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura, Goba and Haryana. So far, we have seen the target of this program, the tenure of this program and the objectives of this program. Now, how this program will be implemented? What is the approach? See, this program is envisaged as a multi-sectoral and a collaborative program. It means there will be many stakeholders in this program. Here, the main agency that will execute this program is the Central Pollution Control Board. It will execute this program in consonance with the Air Act of 1981. This program will be organized through intersectoral groups which includes related ministries such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Neethi IO, Central Pollution Control Board which we saw, then experts from the industry, academy and civil society. Next, if you see, we also have the Ministry of Road Transport on Highways which will act as the nodal agency for implementing various provisions to control air pollution from vehicles based on the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988 and the Central Motor Vehicle Rules of 1989. And apart from this, if you see various ministries like the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, then the Ministry of Power, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and even Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare will incorporate pollution mitigation strategies and their sectoral policies. Here, note that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will play an important role by implementing the National Action Plan on Climate Change which has 8 missions and which spreads across various sectors. Some of these missions have a direct link in mitigating the air pollution like the National Mission for Green India, then the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, then we have the National Solar Mission, then National Mission on Sustainable Habitat and even the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture. So, all these have a direct link with mitigating the air pollution. So, these are some of the stakeholders who will implement this National Clean Air Program. So, you can see that it is a multi-sectoral and a collaborative initiative. And also, if you see the government has planned to use Smart Cities Framework to launch this program in around 43 smart cities that fall under this list of 102 non-attainment cities. So, this is in brief about this National Clean Air Program that you need to know from exam perspective. Mainly, know what is the target under this program and what is the tenure of this program if it is a medium term or a long term and then know about the objectives and finally, who implements this program. Now, have a look at this practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about the upcoming Monson session of Parliament. It tells that the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs has decided that the Monson session will be held from 14 September till the 1st of October. So, in this context, let us discuss some important terminologies related to the sessions of Indian Parliament from prelims exam perspective. See the sessions of Parliament, prorogation and dissolution are all discussed in article 85 of Indian Constitution. Clause one of this article tells that the President shall from time to time summon each House of Parliament that is both Lok Sabha and Raji Sabha to meet at such time and place as the President thinks fit. And it also tells that six months shall not intervene between its last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next session. Then if you look at clause two, it tells that the President may from time to time prorog the Houses or either House and dissolve the House of the people that is Lok Sabha. So, what I have done is just read what is there in article 85. Now, let us understand the meaning of this article. As we saw, the President while summoning the House shall make sure that the maximum gap between two sessions of Parliament is not more than six months. In other words, it means the Parliament should meet at least twice a year. If you say usually three sessions of Parliament are held every year. One is the budget session that happens from the months of January or February till the May month. Next, we have the monsoon session which is from July till September. And finally, we have the winter session which happens between November and December. Here note that the meaning for the word session is the period spanning between the first sitting of a House and its prorogation or dissolution in case of Lok Sabha. This period between the prorogation of a House and its reassembly in a new session is called as recess. Know that sitting of Parliament can be terminated by adjournment or adjournment sign-a-die or prorogation or dissolution. So, what is adjournment? A adjournment suspends the work in a sitting for a specified time. Now, coming to adjournment sign-a-die, it means terminating a sitting of Parliament for an indefinite period. This power of adjournment and adjournment sign-a-die lies with the presiding officer of the House. Assume that the presiding officer declares the House adjourn sign-a-die. Then within few days, the President issues a notification for prorogation of the session. Also know that the President can prorog the House while in session. So, this is what we mean as prorogation. Next, we will see what is dissolution. See, only Lok Sabha is subject to dissolution and Rajya Sabha is not subject to dissolution. Why? Because Rajya Sabha is a permanent House. Hence, it is not subject to dissolution. See, when prorogation ends a session, dissolution ends the very life of the existing House. We know that the elected government's tenure is 5 years. When this 5 years tenure comes to an end, the dissolution of Lok Sabha will be automatic or it can also be when the President decides to dissolve the House under Article 85. So, this is in brief about the session of Parliament and various terminologies related to the session of Parliament that you need to know from Tillam's perspective. Now, have a look at this question. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article discusses about an industry interaction of the Union Finance Minister. The minister has said that GST rate revision proposal would be taken up by the GST Council to reduce the rates on two-wheelers. In this regard, the minister mentioned that two-wheelers are neither luxury goods nor sin goods. So, the minister said that that should be GST rate revision to reduce the tax for the same. Just have an idea that two-wheelers currently attract 28 percentage tax under GST. So, in the context of this news article, let us understand what do we mean by sin good and what do we mean by luxury good? First, let us see sin good. See, a sin good is also called as a demerit good. It means that particular good is harmful to the society. It is socially undesirable. This usually includes products like cigarettes, tobacco, alcohol, soft drinks, candies, fast food, etc. And if you see the products vary from country to country that are designated as sin goods. And whatever tax that is collected on these sin goods is termed as sin tax. If you see, sin tax is globally prevalent practice under which the sin goods attract higher rates of tax compared to the usual goods that are present in the market. Now, why additional taxes are imposed? Because the government aims at efforts to discourage people from using such products or services. Now, let us take an example of tobacco in India during the union budget speech 2020. The union finance minister proposed to increase excise duty on cigarettes by way of increasing the national calamity contingent duty on cigarettes and including other tobacco products except BDs. So, you can see that this excise duty that is the national calamity contingent duty is a type of syntax that is imposed on the tobacco product. In this case, it is the cigarette. So, what we are seeing is the common definition for what do we mean by a sin good or a demerit good and what do we mean by a sin tax or the demerit tax. It is known by different names as in the case of tobacco as we have just seen now. Now, let us see about luxury goods. First, what is luxury? We know that luxury by definition is hard to explain. This is because it is subjective in nature. Why? Because one person's luxury can be another person's necessity. For example, two wheeler may be a luxury to a particular person but the same two wheeler may be a necessity to another person. So, we can say that luxury good includes any commodity or service that is specified as providing comfort or enjoyment or pleasure to a person's life. Earlier, if you see before the introduction of GST, there was tax on luxury items which was commonly known as luxury tax. And if you see it was not directly under the central government's ambit, it differed from state to state. But with the introduction of goods and services tax, luxury items are now put under the highest tax bracket which is 28 percentage. Some of the luxury products include luxury cars, certain types of hotel services, etc. So, this is in brief that you need to know about sin tax and luxury tax. Now, have a look at this practice question. Let us move on to the next news article. This editorial article discusses about the current state of manufacturing sector in India where the author has compared India's manufacturing sector with that of China's and he tries to tell that India's industrial sector is lagging for which he has given certain suggestions to improve the same. So, let us discuss this editorial now. The relevant syllabus is given here for your reference. For freshers, try to know there are three sectors that drive India's economy. They are primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Now, what is primary sector? Know that in primary sector, goods are produced by extraction and collection of natural resources. Activities in this sector include farming, forestry, hunting, fishing, mining, etc. Know that a majority of India's population is dependent on this sector directly or indirectly. Now, coming to the secondary sector, it is a sector in which the raw materials are transferred to valuable products. It is this sector that manufactures goods which is associated with different kinds of industries. Hence, it is also called as manufacturing sector or also industrial sector. Some examples include construction industries, manufacturing industries, processing industries, etc. Now, coming to the tertiary sector, it is also known as services sector. It includes production and exchange of services. When we tell services, it includes banking, insurance, transportation, communication, etc. So, these are the three sectors that you need to know in brief. Now, if you see sectoral-wise shares in Indian economy, services sector is the major contributor where it contributes around 55% to India's GVA and the manufacturing sector contributes roughly around 30% and the remaining by the primary sector which is nothing but agricultural, forestry and fishing. So, our focus here is about the manufacturing sector. The author discusses this editorial where he compares India's manufacturing sector with that of China's. See, there are many claims by the government that manufacturing sector in India is improving. If you see even the prime minister of India's told that the manufacturing sector of India's the potential to reach 1 trillion US dollars by 2025. In this backdrop, let us look at this editorial. First, the author of this editorial is discussing where India's position is at present and as I told earlier, he has compared India's manufacturing sector with that of China's. There are some reasons why the author is comparing. Firstly, India and China are neighbors. Secondly, both of them are aspiring to become the leaders of the world and thirdly, if you see in 1990s, both India and China had almost the same GDP per capita. But within a short span, if you see China saw a tremendous growth in manufacturing. There was a tremendous growth in China's economy which was faster than India's. The author tells that when India opened up its economy in 1990s, the target for industrial manufacturing rate was to achieve 12 percentage growth. But if you see India's manufacturing grew only by 7 percentage. At the same time, China's growth rate was somewhere around 10.7 percentage to be precise 10.68 percentage. Next, the author tells that India's share of manufacturing and GDP stood at just 15 percentage in 2018. And this value is just half of China's figure. In this regard, the author tells that China ranks first in contribution to the world manufacturing output whereas India ranks sixth. Next, the author has also brought in one more parameter. He tells that China was among the largest exporters of manufactured goods in 2018. It almost had 18 percentage of the global share. But if you see, India was not a part of even the top 10 exporters in the year 2018. So, based on all these data, the author tries to tell that India lacks far behind China in achieving excellence in the manufacturing sector. So, what are the reasons for India's lagged industrial growth? This is the second part of this editorial. According to the author, India faces many problems in promoting its manufacturing sector. It includes the infrastructure constraints, then there is a disadvantageous tax policy environment, then the author also tells that there is a non-supporting regulatory environment in India, then he tells that there is a high cost of industrial credit or the industrial loans to operate the businesses. And then the author tells that there is poor quality of the workforce, that is the skill level of the workforce is not that competitive. And he also tells that there are rigid labor laws in India. These are some of the problems which the author has told. Along with this, he has also told that there are restrictive trade policies, low investment in the research and development in the manufacturing sector, then delays and constraints in land acquisition and even the inability to attract large scale foreign direct investment into the manufacturing sector. So, these are some of the problems in promoting the manufacturing sector in India according to the author. In the final part of the editorial, the author discusses the way forward to make India a manufacturing hub. Firstly, the author is of the opinion that this COVID-19 pandemic has given India a great opportunity to boost its domestic manufacturing. This is because several manufacturing companies are planning to exit China as of now. The author tells that many American, Japanese and South Korean companies that are based in China have started discussions with the Indian government to relocate their plans to India. Some of the reasons quoted by those companies are the supply chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and even the recent Chinese aggressions in the world's geopolitical scenario like the recent India-China conflict, then Chinese assertion in the South China Sea etc. So, these are some of the reasons why the manufacturing companies are planning to exit China and relocate their manufacturing base in India. So, the author tells that India has to make best use of this opportunity. Secondly, the author tells that the state governments should actively participate and have an effective policy coordination with the central government in order to boost the manufacturing activities in India. Currently, if you see, very few states lead in the manufacturing activities like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. According to the author, availability of land area is the prime reason why these states lead in manufacturing activities, that is the secondary sector activities. On the similar lines, the author tells that India should make use of the land areas that are available in other big states like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Talangana, West Bengal to name a few in order to increase the manufacturing productivity in these states. Next, the author tells that there should be state-specific industrialization strategies, which should be made and implemented in a mission mode. And in addition to this, the author also tells that the policy actions of the central government and the state governments should be well coordinated. Here, the author has quoted a suggestion which was recently given by the Union Minister of Law and Justice, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prashad, where the minister suggested forming a strategy group consisting of representatives from the central and state governments along with the top industry executives in order to boost electronic manufacturing. So, the author tries to emphasize that there should be proper coordination between the policy actions of the central government and the state governments. Also, the author tells that the development of industrial corridors and the smart cities program should all be given priority. So, these are some of the suggestions given by the author to improve the industry sector or the manufacturing sector in India. This is all about the discussion of this editorial. Let us move on to the next news article. This news article mentions that the decommissioned aircraft carrier Virat is said to be scrapped at a ship-breaking yard at Alang, which is located in Gujarat. The theme for this news article discussion is about ship recycling in India. So, let us discuss two major aspects of ship recycling. One is about the location of ship recycling yards in India, and secondly, we shall see about the international conventions and Indian rules and regulations that govern ship recycling. See, ship-breaking in India began around 1910s. It began in Kolkata and Mumbai. Later, if you see, the place called Alang in Gujarat became very famous for ship recycling. At present, if you see, it is responsible for more than 95 percentage of total ships that are recycled in India. So, at present, if you see, there are four major centers where ship recycling is carried out. Alang in Gujarat, then in Mumbai at a place called Dharukana, then at Kolkata, then at Alikal in Kerala. And as per recent news sources, ship-breaking activities in Mumbai's Dharukana have almost stopped. So, at present, there are three active places where ship recycling is being carried out. And if you see, India is a major player in the global ship recycling market. As of 2018, as per the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development data, India shares 26 percentage. It is the second largest global ship recycling market. The first is Bangladesh, with a 47 percent share. And the third place is Pakistan with a 22 percentage share. So, you can see that India's share in the global market is huge. But for a long time, India did not follow the international standards for ship recycling. If you see, there is a convention called as Hong Kong International Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. This convention was signed in 2009. And if you see, India was not a part of this Hong Kong Convention. Finally, India acceded to this convention on 28 November 2019 and posed this India also enacted a legislation called as the Recycling of Ships Act. This Recycling of Ships Act of 2019 restricts and prohibits the use or installation of hazardous materials in ships. It is not applicable to warships or non-commercial ships that are operated by the government. So, India has taken steps to change the ship recycling industry as being environmental friendly by enacting this Recycling of Ships Act 2019. To know more about this Hong Kong Convention, we request the viewers to have a look at our Target 2020 prelim series for the month of December 29. It was the 23rd topic which we discussed this Hong Kong Convention 2009. So, these are some of the important aspects which you should know about ship recycling industry in India. Now, let us move on to the practice questions discussion session. Look at this first question. It is a two statement question. The first statement tells that the special form of administration provided under six schedule of constitution is currently applicable in Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. And the second statement tells that the inner line permit system is applicable only in states with tribal areas of six schedule. Here both the statements are incorrect. If you see the term six schedule, remember there are only four states Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Arunachal Pradesh is not a part. And when you study inner line permit, remember four states Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipura and Mizoram. So, both the statements are incorrect here. The correct answer is option C both 1 and 2 since this question demands you to choose those statement or statements that are incorrect. Be careful when you read the question. This question is about national cleaner program. It tells that which of the following ministries or bodies or departments are involved in the implementation of national clean air program. Central Pollution Control Board, Niti Aayog, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Here all these five institutions are a part of implementing this national cleaner program as we saw during our discussion. So, here the correct answer is option D, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This question is a two statement question about the session of parliament. The first statement tells the termination of session of the House by an order of the President under Article 85 of the Constitution is called prorogation. Yes, this statement is correct. Article 85 deals with the session of the parliament. It also speaks about the prorogation and dissolution. Now, look at the second statement. It tells that while Rajisabha is not subject to dissolution, Lok Sabha can be dissolved by its presiding officer. Read the statement again. The first half of the statement is correct. Rajisabha is not subject to dissolution since it is a permanent body. Whereas Lok Sabha is subject to dissolution. But see who can dissolve? It can be dissolved only by the President, not by the presiding officer. So, be careful when you read the statements. Here the correct answer is option B, 2 only since you need to choose those statement or statements that are incorrect. Now, look at this question about GST. It is again a two statement question and you need to choose those statement or statements that are correct. Look at the first statement. It tells that currently there are four tax labs under GST. Yes, this statement is correct. The four tax labs are 5 percentage, 12 percentage, 18 percentage and 28 percentage. And out of these four, the luxury items attract the maximum GST, which is 28 percentage. Now, look at the second statement. It tells that items taxed under the highest tax lab of GST include cigarettes, alcohol for human consumption, aerated drinks, etc. Now, if you are aware of the recent current affairs and if you keep reading newspapers daily, you can tell that alcohol is out of the GST purview. It is taxed by the state governments through excise duties and vats. So, alcohol does not come under GST purview. So, the second statement is incorrect here. Hence, the correct answer to this question is option A, 1 only since you need to choose those statement or statements that are correct. But this we come to the end of the analysis of all the news articles taken up for today's discussion and also the practice questions discussion session. 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