Welcome to this learning unit in which you'll get an overview of the outside and the inside of the most common types of wind turbines. On the whole, these wind turbines look very much the same. However, you'll see that there are also some important variations. First, I'll give you some terminology of the components that can be seen from the outside. As you all know, these moving parts are the blades. The blades connect to the hub and together they form the rotor. The rotor connects to the nacelle which houses the machinery. The combination of rotor and nacelle is aptly called the rotor nacelle assembly, which is often abbreviated to RNA. The rotor nacelle assembly is supported by the tower and this rests on the foundation. The tower and foundation together are called the support structure. Sometimes you can recognize the housing of the transformer at the tower base. For an offshore wind turbine, this can be on the platform above the boat landing. Some offshore turbines have the transformer at the rear below the nacelle. If we open up the nacelle, we can see the drivetrain. The drivetrain is the assembly of all rotating components that are involved in the energy conversion. What you see here is traditionally the most common type of drivetrain, the drivetrain with a gearbox. On the left hand side, you see the hub that is connected to a low-speed shaft. The generator that is used in this drivetrain is a more or less off-the-shelf product and needs to rotate at a much higher speed than the rotor. Therefore, it is connected to the low-speed shaft through a gearbox. For multi-megawatt turbines, the gearbox increases the rotational speed by a factor of about 100. The nacelle connects to the tower top through the yaw system, which enables the turbine to align itself with the wind. You will recognize the outside of this type of turbine as many turbines of this type have been built on land. It has the shape of a camper van, but be aware it's usually much bigger. The drivetrain is an elongated assembly of several medium-sized components and therefore the nacelle is relatively long but not so high and wide. The next drivetrain has been a minority for a long time but is growing in popularity. The hub connects directly to the generator and there is no gearbox. This configuration is therefore called a direct drive. The direct drive is particularly gaining popularity for the offshore market. It is expected to have a higher reliability due to its lack of a gearbox and that should lead to less downtime and lower maintenance costs. The generator needs to be much bigger because of its low rotational speed and it is therefore much more integrated into the structure. As a consequence, this type of turbine doesn't have an identifiable low-speed shaft, with instead a large bearing to carry the rotor. As mentioned on the previous slide, the direct drive generator is very large. This can be seen on the outside because it invariably leads to nacelles with rounded forms. The large diameter of the generator is clearly visible while the nacelle is shorter for the lack of a low-speed shaft and gearbox. The third configuration for the drivetrain is a hybrid of the previous two. It does have a gearbox but a much smaller one. The rotational speed of the rotor is only increased by a factor of about 10, so 10 times less than in a traditional drivetrain. Therefore, the generator speed is higher than in the direct drive but lower than in the fully geared system. This leads to an intermediate size for the generator. At first glance, this system seems to inherit the disadvantages of both previous concepts. It still has a gearbox that can fail and the generator is not an off-the-shelf product. However, this type of drivetrain can be easily scaled to larger powers without excessive increase in the drivetrain mass. For the two previous configurations, the mass of either the gearbox or the generator would increase very much with such scaling. The hybrid drivetrain has a more equal distribution of its volume over width, height and length and is therefore very compact. Although it does have potential for large of your wind turbines, there aren't many around at the moment. So you won't commonly spot them in the field. The last drivetrain configuration that I show here is the exception to the rule that all components are aligned sequentially. Here you see four generators that are connected in parallel to the four outgoing shafts of the gearbox. Each generator has a quarter of the power rating of the turbine. In case one of the generators fails, the turbine can continue operation but with a slightly reduced performance. I show this drivetrain to you to make you aware that still new IDs keep popping up and old IDs are dusted off. These IDs especially deal with particular demands for offshore turbines. Every once in a while, such an ID gets taken a step further than just the drawing board and we may therefore see more changes in the future. In this video, you've seen several configurations of drivetrains. As you have seen, these drivetrains have many components in common but in a different configuration. When we are treating the individual components in the next learning unit, you'll be able to visualize how they fit in these configurations. I hope you enjoyed this topic. Thank you very much for your attention.


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Let's get it. Order number six and seven. Thank God for his blessings. Order number six, his Walgreens, two items, 1.8 miles for 850. Get with me. Order number seven is two, it's another spark order. We all the way, we all the way sparked up, baby. Walmart, two orders, 7.2 miles for 2236. Let's get in the mix. That's what I say before I go to Walgreens. Oh, we have to be at Walmart by 11.45. So we're going to do this order, then we're going to shoot up there and get it. They must have a two-finger. Two-finger is the worst thing. A two-finger can irritate them. It's like the two worst things that can ever happen to you because there's no getting rid of it. No. It's called it's Dintec. Oh, they have a canker release. Oh, my God. That joke probably hurts so bad. Scan that, Joe. Let me get them a better box. That box is a big stuff like old homework. Scan it. Got that. Then we need something for them guns. Right here. Canker. Oh, my God. I can't even imagine. Let's go. 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Sometimes you're going to have to do some stuff you don't want to do. And what we don't want to do is tear these water, but we got to do, we got to do, man. You know what I'm saying? We got to get this money. We got to get this, uh, one more order. So we can get this fitted all the way to the house. Switching he gon' turn you to a memory I can't beat the fool and I don't know I don't know if that's a good idea.   No, no Don't be all Get it Order number seven and eight is time to get this cake Order number seven is another spark order. We will spark it up. Baby about to get busy spark order two orders 45 items 11.9 miles for 2673 get with me baby order number eight is time to get this cake Panera bridge you guys see what is right in the back seat. We already picked that up panera brand four items 3.5 miles 4 776 Let's get rich look get the plan stand. We don't know where to jump up this panera brand right now We have to be at the Walmart about 12 45 is a 12 34 right now So we're going to drop this off and then we're going to go pick up that Walmart order and get busy So if you want to subscribe make sure you smash that subscribe But if you're getting money give me a thumbs up and put the money back in the comment section and do a more thing Do not skip those ads watch us get to this bag.  So it's like oh, so you oh, so you can't usually you press that button right there When I hear it, I have a I press a button in there Then you'll hear it like stamp and then you know, you know, it's not working right so oh, okay, and if it's food It's more important. Thank you. Have a good one, sir Let's order number one. Let's get it done. Thank you got everything in the sample bag So you can get this bag Our business partner come up with these burnt ideas. I'm not so smart We got them off Uh, yeah, okay, thanks. You're welcome. 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Hello everyone, my name is Nikhil Gajjam working as assistant professor in department of computer science and engineering from Valchan Institute of Technology, Solapur. In today's video, we will see construction of binary search tree using pre-order, in-order and post-order traversal. So these are the learning outcomes. At the end of this session, student will be able to construct a binary search tree using pre-order and in-order traversal. Student will be able to construct a binary search tree using post-order and in-order traversal and student will be able to acquaint with binary search tree time complexity. Now before going to actually construction of binary search tree, we will see what is binary search tree, just revise the thing. In binary search tree, all we know, each node on the left subtree is having value less than or equal to its parent and each node on the right subtree is having value greater than its parent. So this is an example of binary search tree. First node 50 we call it as root. All the nodes present on left subtree of 50 are having value less than or equal to its parent and all the nodes present on right subtree are having value greater than its parent. So these are binary search tree traversal techniques. We all know there are three binary search tree traversal techniques. We call it as pre-order traversal, in-order traversal and post-order traversal. In pre-order traversal, we are visiting root or node first, then we traverse left subtree in pre-order traversal and then we traverse right subtree in pre-order traversal. In in-order traversal, first we traverse left subtree, then we visit node or root and then we traverse right subtree in in-order traversal. In post-order traversal, first we traverse left subtree in post-order, then we traverse right subtree in post-order and at last we are visiting root or node. As an example, suppose this is a binary search tree and we want to find out what is pre-order, in-order and post-order traversal. So pre-order traversal is 50, 20, 10, then 80 and then 60. In-order traversal is 10, 20, 50, 60 and 80 and post-order traversal is 10, 20, 60, 80 and 50. We know that root is visited at last in post-order traversal and root is visited first in pre-order traversal. Now we will see how to construct a binary search tree with given pre-order and in-order traversal. Suppose we have given pre-order and in-order traversal. So while construction, we are taking one-by-one node from left to right from pre-order traversal. So one-by-one node, first node is A. So first node in pre-order traversal as we know is always a root. So A will become a root. So next node is B. So B is present on left hand side of A. So B should go in left subtree of A. Next node is D. D is present on left hand side of A and left hand side of B. So D should present on left subtree of A and left subtree of B. Next node is H. Now H is present on left hand side of A and right hand side of D. So H should present on left hand side of A and right subtree of D. Next node is E. E is present on left hand side of A and right hand side of B. So E should present on left hand side of A and right hand side of B. Next node is C. Now C, we search C in in-order traversal. Now C is present on right hand side of A. So C should be a right child of A. Next one is F. F is present on right hand side of A and left hand side of C. So F should be present on right subtree of A and left subtree of C. Next node is I. I is present on right hand side of A and left hand side of F. So I should be present on right subtree of A and left subtree of F. Next node is G. G is present on right hand side of A and right hand side of C. So G should be present on right hand side of A and right subtree of C. Next node is J. Now J is present on right hand side of A and left hand side of G. So J is present on right subtree of A and left subtree of G. Last node is K. K is present on right hand side of A and right hand side of G. So K is rightmost node in this binary search tree. So in this way you can construct a binary search tree from pre-order and in-order traversal. We are taking one by one node from pre-order traversal and then we are searching that node where that that is placed in in-order traversal. So using pre-order and in-order traversal you can find out or you can construct a given binary search tree. So think and write question is construct a binary search tree using this in-order traversal and pre-order traversal. You can pause the video and you can answer. Okay, we will see the answer. So you are taking one by one node from pre-order traversal. So first node is A. So A will become a root. Next node is B. Now you are searching where actually B is present in in-order traversal. So B is present on left hand side of A. So B is on left subtree of A. Next node is D. Again you are checking. D is present on left hand side of A and left hand side of B. So D is present on left subtree of A and left subtree of B. Next node is E. Now E is present on left hand side of A and right hand side of B. So E E is present on left subtree of A and right subtree of B. Last node is C. Now C is present on right hand side of A. So C is present on right subtree of A. So in this way you can construct a binary search tree with given in order and pre-order traversal. Now similarly you can construct a binary search tree using post order and in order traversal. Now first we will see what is the difference between constructing a binary search tree with in order and pre-order traversal and post-order and in order traversal. Now in pre-order you are taking one by one node from pre-order traversal from left hand side to right hand side. Now when you are constructing a binary search tree from post-order and in order traversal you are taking one by one node from right hand side to left hand side. Because last node present in post-order traversal is always a root. So A is root in this case. So A will become a root. Next node is C. Now you are checking where C is present on in order traversal with comparison with A. So C is present on right hand side of A. So C is right subtree of A. Next node is E. E is present on right hand side of A and left hand side of C. So E is present on right hand side of A and left subtree of C. Next node is B. Now B is present on left hand side of A. So B is present on left subtree of A. Last node is D. D is present on left hand side of A and right hand side of B. So D is present on left subtree of A and right subtree of B. So in this way you can construct a binary search tree with post-order and in order traversal. Now we will see what is binary search tree time complexity. Now binary search tree with n nodes required big of log n comparisons to find out a particular node. Now suppose we have given this binary search tree. So maximum number of comparisons required to find out whether a particular node is present in this binary search tree or not is 3. So you are starting comparing from root. So A is your first comparison next level either B or C and then next level G, D, E and Z. So this is level 3. So maximum 3 comparisons are required to find out whether a particular node is present in this binary search tree. So big of log n how it comes is with first comparisons you are checking whether that node is present on left subtree or right subtree. With value you are checking if it is less than a root you are checking next searching in left subtree. If searching value is greater than root you are doing a next searching operation on the right subtree. So with one comparisons you are selecting half part and you are discarding half part. So in this way the complexity time complexity for searching a particular node in binary search tree is given as big of log n. Again this complexity is average time complexity. Now worst case time complexity of binary search tree is given as big of n. Now worst case if binary search tree is like this we call it as skew tree where all the nodes are present on one side. So in this case the maximum number of comparisons are required is 3 and number of nodes present in this binary search tree are 3. So time complexity of this binary search tree in worst case given as big of n. So these are the references I have used for creation of this video. Thank you.


Frederick, you just joined OxiCo. Can you tell investors out there why you joined as the new CEO? I am absolutely delighted to join OxiCo. And what I want to draw people's attention to is, I don't think the world fully appreciates that we are in a full-blown economic war for critical materials. We all know what's in the media about the different sources and how the critical materials are being dominated out of China. But I joined OxiCo because Columbia, Brazil, and the DRC. Right now, OxiCo can deliver monazite. You want monazite? Tell me how much and where you want it. And I'll tell you what your price is. I can do that today. Within two years, maybe less, there's a lot of moving parts in both Brazil and Colombia. Within two years, 18 months, I'm going to be able to also deliver monazite from Brazil, from processing tin tailings in the Massangana area. And then secondly, I'm also going to be able to deliver monazite from Colombia from the monastic project in Eastern Colombia on the Venezuelan border. So there's a huge opportunity. And I take a bit of a bigger picture view of this. It's time now. The governments around the world are getting going, but there's some inertia, right? I'm doing it now because I'm not waiting for the governments of the world to say, oh, we have a problem. We know we have a problem. And I'm going to be part of the solution. Well, of course, I'm going to flip hats here as one of the founders of the Critical Minerals Institute, whose focus is the decarbonization economy. Everyone's calling me going, monazite, monazite, monazite. And what's shocking to me is that most people don't know that you're already producing. Tell us about your monazite. Yeah. Well, we are sales agents for our sister company, Central American Nickel, which is currently producing monazite from the Democratic Republic of Congo. What is most interesting, you know, people hear Africa, they go, Africa. This is all, it's all traceable sourced and it's not, it's not anything that would be, you know, child labor, blood diamonds, any of that. This is, we can provide to any purchaser a clear track of where it came from. It's a monazite deposit and it's really interesting because it's non-radioactive, which is very unusual for monazite elsewhere in the world. It's not only not radioactive, but if I understand it's very high and it's where it's content, is that correct? That is correct. Yeah, we're getting a very good price for it and we just announced last week we've sold another 432 tons of monazite. That takes us up to just over 700 tons for the year. It's our objective as we, as the monazite development goes forward in DRC that we're going to be, hopefully will be a thousand tons a month. OXACOA is a sales agent and we take 15% as a sales commission. That's how our transaction is working. And of course, if I heard you right, you were mentioning tin, critical mineral, you know, right at the top of the food chain. You're mentioning rare earths. I think you were mentioning some other ones as well. Can you just give us a general update of where you are today because this company is moving so quickly? Well, we've got a, I've got a huge job and we as a company have a huge job ahead of us and that is to bring both Brazil and Colombia on production. In addition to the tin, we have tantalum, niobium, some titanium oxide and obviously the rare earths and these are in both countries, Colombia and Brazil. Well, I'll tell you, I have a lot of time for you, Frederick, because you have been an advisor of mine in the past at understanding the critical mineral sector. What should we anticipate as shareholders in the next quarter? Well, our priorities right now are twofold and that is to get a 43-101 report done in Brazil and we're being very proactive in that regard. And secondly, we're also doing the same thing in Colombia. We're updating the previous 43-101. As I said, I've been on both properties and I've seen the tin tailings in Brazil and it's remarkable the extent of the opportunity there. And then I was in Eastern, I was in Eastern Colombia on the Orinoco River, which for you, geography buffs, is the border with Venezuela, but also absolutely fascinating opportunity there to develop a great source of critical materials. But, you know, keep in mind, again, one of the three sources of our rare earths elements, monazite. So Frederick, congratulations on your new position at Oxico. If you ask me, this is a win-win for all the shareholders and I personally loved your line that you're going to be, you want to be part of the solution with Oxico. Congratulations and for people seeking more information on Oxico, please go to their website. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Great to be back.


Hello everybody welcome back to another Premiere Pro tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to dramatically in fact massively improve your green screens and your green screen keying in maybe two minutes. I'm going to show you two new techniques that are going to make a huge difference for you as you can see here there's an example. This is a very good mask and I've done nothing fancy but when I hit space and you'll see that is playing look there's no sparkly in her hair it doesn't have any of those so many the different issues that you see in some of those more aggressive green screens and if you look on the left side here here's the original footage you will notice that on the edges it's a little darker and it's a little greener and a little bit better lit in the middle so this is very very common and I'm going to show you how to get rid of the darkness and how to green screen you know screens like this that are not properly lit because sometimes you don't have access to that so here we go here is the original green screen let's just go ahead and start from scratch the first step and this is a very important one is we're going to go to effect controls and check this out I'm going to click on the on the video so here's my video and you can see here that at the about the 10 second plane she throws her hands up in the air and she moves around so what I'm going to do is I'm going to create what's called an opacity mask what you do is in the effect controls panel if you don't see it you can just go to window and then make sure there's a check mark beside effect controls in effect controls I'm going to go ahead click on opacity before I do that though I'm going to actually go to 25% here on the fit so what I what I need to happen is I need to be able to draw a mask around this area and I need it to be able to see the whole thing so I'm going to go to 25% and now I'm going to grab my free draw bezier or the pen tools what I prefer to call it and I'm going to draw a tight mask around the edges here so what I'm going to do I'm going to draw a mask here here basically around the stuff that doesn't get used and remember when I showed you at the beginning there that she does some crazy arm movements and stuff like that so I'm just going to keep this nice and tight just like this I might have gone a little too tight there let's see no I just barely made it and here I'm just drawing a mask and again this isn't a perfect mask I just want to show you the technique if I had lots of time I would draw it a little perfect I've moved it up into fit and basically what I've done is I've drawn a mask around and sort of handled all of the stuff that is a little bit in the darker area so I'm basically just getting rid of the stuff on the outside so that's the first step and in the effect controls panel you'll see that I've created mask one now the second step is we're going to go to the effects panel right here if you don't see it again window make sure to check mark beside effects and then just type in ultra so I'm going to type in the word ultra and that's going to give me the video effects keying ultra key I'm going to drag and drop ultra key on top here and nothing happens out of the box but here's the second thing if you if you check this out you'll see here under key color I'm going to go ahead and click on that little eyedropper tool and I can go ahead and I can click on it and then I can drag it over top of you know the green part but watch this if I hold down the command key on a Mac control key on a pc see how the eyedropper has increased in size that basically means that we're taking a larger sample so instead of just taking a single green sample we're going to take a sample of this area and I'm going to get it nice and close to the edge because that's kind of where some of the lesser the lesser well-lit areas is so I'm going to go ahead and click on that area let go and presto it's done a fantastic job now the last step I like to do is you can of course go in here and adjust the matte generation and all these different settings if you want but watch this if I switch this from default to aggressive it literally has created nearly a perfect uh perfect green screen for me so I'm going to hit play watch this if you look at her you're not going to see all that shimmering and sparkling and all that crazy stuff you see in so many uh green screen videos this is literally a perfect green screen and those two techniques will get you there so thanks for watching be back soon with a lot more stuff


fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Thursday, November 9th. We are casting to you from sunny and cold Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Looking out, the sky is blue, but it's like 30-something degrees. Way too cold for me. But sound is tiny. Sound is tiny, tinny. Still no video? Yeah, no video. All right. There we go. There's the video. All right. So, again, thank you for joining. And let me just center this better. There we go. Give it a little distance. All right. Sound should be good. Everything should be good. We've got good internet connection today. Sorry about yesterday. Day three of my tour, you know, in the U.S., today's show will be short because I am on my way. I've got a talk at around noon here in Utah, at the University of Utah for the law school, the Federalist Society. I'm giving a talk on free speech and Western civilization. So that'll be today. Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago for the Adam Smith Society. And the talk was on inflation, the Fed, kind of more of an economic talk. But it was a good discussion, good group. Our kids, obviously some of the leaders of the future, Booth School of Business MBAs, tend to do very, very well in their careers. Following school, so an impressive group of young men and women, primarily men, a few women. So Adam Smith is like the Federalist Society for Business School for MBA programs. And then the day before that, Tuesday night, I gave a talk at the University of Illinois Champaign. Some of you were there. Jennifer was there. We got Hunter Hunter was there with his wife. And they drove up from Alabama. So thank you guys for joining that. I hope you enjoyed it. I know for those of you who traveled there from a distance, there was quite a road trip. But I really appreciate you being there. I really appreciate the effort. I thought that was a really good talk. So it was a talk about, ultimately, altruism versus egoism. So it was very much focused on morality. The Q&A, as always, focused a lot on capitalism rather than on the morality. It seems like the questions the student have are actually more regarding the economic issues. But I thought the Q&A was particularly good. A lot of energy. I'm hoping once I get the video of that, I'll put it up. I'm still waiting for videos from Europe to put up. So we've got plenty of content to put up. Yeah, everything was recorded, including yesterday at Blue School of Business.  Particularly the Q&A, I thought was good. So Christian, hopefully, who is listening, I hope that would be a great Q&A to break up into questions, which you still need to do for some of my other talks, and put up the short videos of just the questions and the answers. Particularly the answers. Because some of the, I thought, the interactions around the Q&A were particularly good at the University of Illinois. Dave Rubin's, as far as I know, the Dave Rubin interview is not up.  I mean, the good thing about it is a lot of people will watch it because it's Dave Rubin. There was nothing exceptional about the interview itself. Let's see. Tomorrow, so I'm giving a talk in a little while. Then I go to the airport. That'll be the, I don't know, fifth flight in three days or whatever. My travel schedule's been a little insane. I fly to Denver tonight. Tomorrow, I'm giving a talk at the leadership program with Rockies on capitalism. And Saturday, I fly home. So that is the schedule. All right. Let's try to catch up on some of the news in particular in what's going on in Israel in Gaza.  I didn't watch it. I've seen some highlights. I've read about it. The debate was on while I was running to the airport to catch a flight. But a lot is happening in the Middle East right now. We'll catch up on that. And again, we'll catch up a little bit on elections in the United States. And yeah, and I'll take your questions. So Super Chat is open. Please feel free to use it to ask questions, but also to support the show. Haven't had a lot of opportunities for you guys to support the show this week. So here's an opportunity for you to step up and support what I am doing. Ultimately, the Super Chat is how I fund these shows and how I fund my time. All right. A lot of news out of Gaza. As you know, as we talked about in the past, the Israeli forces have basically cut off Gaza into the north and south. Haven't circled pretty much Gaza City and some of the towns around it. And as of this week, entered into Gaza City, basically have closed off the coast and have entered into Gaza City. And there is basically there is street to street fighting in Gaza City right now. And my guess is we don't know yet. But my guess is that over the next over the next few days, we will hear about increased casualty levels among the Israeli forces as a consequence of kind of the street to street fighting, which is not easy, very, very difficult. As Israel is pushing into Gaza City, they're getting closer and closer to El Shifa Medical Center, which is a large complex of buildings that includes a hospital and a variety of outpatients facilities. But it is believed that in El Shifa Medical Center is the Hamas headquarters for the Gaza Strip, that the leadership of Hamas is there. Of course, it could be that they've already escaped to the south. But it is believed that there are hundreds of Hamas fighters there. It's also believed that quite a few of the hostages are probably in the tunnels, in the bunkers under El Shifa Hospital. So El Shifa Hospital is a major target for the Israelis. And they are moving closer to that target. They are being super cautious, careful, as you know, with regard to civilian casualties. The primary reason for that is that with increased civilian casualties, increased pressure on Israel to compromise, to sell out and to stop its offensive. The priority in Israel right now is to get the terrorists and to do what they can in order to kill as many of the Hamas and the Hamas, leadership of the Hamas, terrorists as they can. And to do that, they need to continue the operations that they're engaged in. So a lot of street to street fighting. It's going to be very intense. A lot of tunnels there. The tunnels are well hidden. The entrances into the tunnels are well hidden. Israel is not bombing the El Shifa Hospital. Again, you saw what happened when Israel didn't buy a hospital, but the hospital got damaged and how much hate was oriented towards Israel. Israel is not bombing the El Shifa Hospital. And as a consequence of that, Israelis will die. Israeli troops will die in trying to take it without bombing it, without air support, without the kind of air support they need. So street to street fighting. And again, going to be very, very intense. In the north, we continue to see kind of the sporadic fighting here and there, missiles coming in, Israel bombing, nothing major. Israel is still not engaged in the kind of preemptive strikes that they need to, that I believe they need to. Hezbollah is still sitting on 150,000 or so missiles that they could be launching at Israel in any moment. Israel is giving Hezbollah the strategic initiative under the assumption that they will avoid attacking Israel because what? Because they're afraid because it's not in Iran's interest right now to do it. But again, that gives them, the terrorists, Hezbollah, the strategic initiative and it takes it away from Israel. Other things that are going on and we'll get to pauses and ceasefires. Yeah, let's do that about Gaza. So the big story right now, breaking right now is that Israel has agreed to a four-hour daily pause. So every day there will be four hours in which Gazans can evacuate and go to the south. I'm just looking at the news stories that Associated Press has the story, Israel agrees to four-hour daily pause in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee. Of course, the picture that they associate with is an injured child, their father carrying an injured child with panic and hysteria on his face. He's a young man. I mean this is a young man. Who knows if this young man is not a Hamas fighter? Who knows if this young man is not a terrorist or if he's not a terrorist? Who knows if he didn't participate in the celebrations after October 7th and the beating of hostages and the abuse of women. Who knows if he's not one of the people who went into Israel? We don't know. But every time you agree to one of these pauses, Hamas fighters are moving south. They're moving away from where the fighting is. They're moving to safety. They're moving to where they will get humanitarian aid. And it allows Hamas to continue to survive. The reality is that Hamas are not dressed in military uniforms. It's not like you can differentiate between Hamas fighters and civilians. Basically, every young man in Gaza is a suspect no matter how they're dressed because the reality is that Hamas is dressed like everybody else. The people who invaded Israel in October 7th were all dressed as civilians. They weren't dressed in uniforms. How does Israel differentiate between civilians and non-civilians? It is actually, at least when it comes to young men, men 18 to 30 or 35 to 40, it's impossible for Israel to do so. Anyway, every day because of the Biden administration's pressure, every day Israel will provide four hours of pause in fighting. Now, it's a bit of a joke, right? Is Hamas going to provide the four hours of pause in fighting? If Israel stops operations for four hours, is Hamas going to stop operations for four hours? Does it just give Hamas the opportunity to barricade itself in, to gain strategic advantage over the Israeli forces, to move its people around so that it can, after the four hours of pause, kill more Israeli soldiers? I'm sorry, but this is sacrificial. It is sacrificial in the part of Israel. You've already seen over the last few days, if you've been watching and reading, that Israel is facilitating the movement of Palestinian civilians from the north to the south. They've opened corridors to facilitate that. Again, who knows who's moving along those corridors? What stopped Gaza's civilians from evacuating Gaza is Hamas, not Israel. When Israel provides them with the secure passage, securing from whom? Not from Israel.  Securing them from Hamas, it was preventing them from leaving because they're being used as civilian shields. They're being used as human shields. Hamas doesn't want them to leave. So every time Israel supplies them with a corridor to leave, they leave. But then who else is leaving with them again? So it's a double-edged thing. Hopefully, by them leaving and by providing this for our window, this will provide Israel with greater flexibility and greater ability to go into those areas that are free of civilians, if you will, and destroy whatever left of Hamas. They're much easier and with lower casualties because they don't have to worry about civilians around them. So I very much hope that this works in Israel's favor. I also very much worry they're going to see a spike in civilian casualties. All right, so that is Gaza. That is the pause. Note that the pause is, you know, the credit for the pause is being taken by the Biden administration. There's a sense in which Israeli lives that are going to be taken as a consequence of these pauses on the Biden administration's hands. This is their doing. This is the pressure they're placing on Israel. Of course, they are being put under a lot of pressure from the Arab world, but they are choosing like every American administration before them, every American administration before them, they are choosing to succumb to the pressure that's being placed on them by the Arab world and they are putting the pressure on Israel to compromise and to appease. All right, just again, breaking news. You know, currently their air raid shelter is going off in the southern city of Israel in the tip of Israel on the coast of the Red Sea. That is the city of Elat, a town, really, a city that I spent quite a few years of my childhood in. I lived there for a while. A beautiful, beautiful city. There are air raid sirens going off there. Several explosions heard over the city. And it seems like the whole region around Elat is under attack. It's not clear if that attack is coming from the Houthis in Yemen. They've been trying to reach an attack in Elat. I do know that one missile has already hit a building in Elat and we don't know by casualties. But the reality is that the southern tip of Israel is under attack and the Iron Dome and Arrow defense system, air defense system are being deployed in order to protect the city and its inhabitants. It's also a tourist city. I don't know how many tourists are there right now. All right, let's see. In addition to Israel fighting on the Gaza front, in addition to having air defense system alerts on the southern Israeli front, we've also got a Lebanese front where there's constant activity and there's constant fighting going on. But also Israel is engaged in the West Bank in arresting Hamas members and arresting other terrorists that are involved in the West Bank and trying to keep the West Bank from imploding and adding another front to Israel. But there was constant fighting in the West Bank and arrests of many Hamas leaders in the West Bank going on as well. Let's see. So yeah, a lot going on, a lot going on at several fronts. Israel is advancing, advancing much slower than I would like. It's very, very cautious. And there is now this four-hour humanitarian pause and fighting every day and all of that kind of stuff. And all of that is slowing down kind of the strategic goals, the achievement of strategic goals that Israel has. All right, so that is really where we are in terms of Gaza. Happy to answer, of course, questions that anybody has with regard to that. And I will get to that in a minute. Let's see. All right. So yeah, tons going on in Gaza, tons going on in different fronts. You know, for a lot of Americans, I think, it's already being forgotten. If anything, the war is morphed into kind of an eternal war. The issues of anti-Semitism, the issue of so many Americans supporting Hamas, particularly on campuses, that is the focus as it should be and it should be fought and a lot of our focus should be on addressing and dealing with the anti-Semitism and the anti-Israel and the pro-Hamas sentiments here in the United States. But at the same time the war is raging, people are dying. Israel has to, I think, ultimately long-term its survival depends on it achieving its strategic goals, which means the complete destruction of Hamas. I don't think Israel can stop there. It needs to take al-Khizballah and ultimately I don't think even there it can stop. I think ultimately it needs to take on the Iranians as well. But we'll get to Iran. Well, let's get to Iran now. We talk, as we speak, and really every day, all day on a consistent, constant basis. U.S. troops in Syria and in Iraq, and U.S. does still have troops in Syria and Iraq, it still works with the Iraqi military. Those troops are constantly under attack. They're constantly under fire.  It was an attack just earlier today. Also, so far the number of Americans killed in these attacks have been minimal. A lot of injured servicemen, but very few. But the United States continues to show its troops, continues to show the world and Americans in particular, that it doesn't give one iota, one iota about the lives of its own soldiers. America does not care. It treats, and I get angry about this, it treats its soldiers as sacrificial lambs, sacrificial lambs for what? Who knows? For American appeasement, sacrificial lambs for what? For displays of trying to appease and befriend the Arab world and more importantly, avoid war with Iran at all costs. Dozens and dozens of attacks against Americans. There was one story I read today about a drone that basically hit a barracks of U.S. troops, a barracks. Luckily for them, the drone did not explode. If it had exploded, we would be seeing dozens of casualties, dozens of dead Americans. Now, what was the headline? The headline was something like, we got lucky because not because lives were saved, but because if the drone had exploded and Americans had died, shit, America would have had to do something about it. And then we might have got into a war. And then, you know, that would have been really devastating. America has no self-esteem, no self-respect, no self-confidence. And you can all say, oh, this is Biden and if Trump was the president, this wouldn't be happening. I don't believe that for a second. The reality is that this has been going on for decades. Americans can be killed in the Middle East. It's a free fall. America doesn't care. You know, the main objective of America is to have troops somehow in the Middle East for some reason, why they're there, who knows. And then when they're killed, to backtrack, to escape, and to avoid a wider conflict. The main goal of America is to avoid a wider conflict while still having troops everywhere. Right, if you have troops everywhere, why do you want to avoid a wider conflict? Aren't they there for a purpose? And the only way to attain that purpose is ultimately to engage in that wider conflict. The reality is that we know who's attacking American troops in the Middle East. It's Iran. It's Iran-backed groups. It's Iran-sanctioned groups.  We've been lucky, pure luck, that more Americans have not died. Now, you could ask the question, why are Americans in Iraq and Syria? And given that we have no strategic objectives, given that we have no strategic plan, given that we don't know what we're doing, I have no idea why they should come home. But given that they are there, it is the job and responsibility of the American government to protect them. And if that means launching massive strikes against the Iranians, disabling their capacity for war, from the air, do it from the air. And yes, they will launch all kinds of missiles and stuff. We have the defense capabilities to protect ourselves from that. But destroying their capabilities. I mean, yesterday, I think it was yesterday, or maybe the day before, the U.S. attacked the base of this terrorist organization that's attacking the U.S. forces, even though we know it's Iran. And then the Secretary of Defense said for the second time in two weeks, if they do it again, we'll really get tough on them. And then the next day, they did it again. Today, they did it again. And the United States is doing nothing. We're a paper tiger. Nobody is afraid of us.   It is a disgrace. If you want to, if you're going to have troops there, protect them. If you're going to protect them, that necessitates, that necessitates engagement with Iran. You don't want to call it a war. Then at least, you know, make them suffer the consequences of what they're doing. And you can do that without engaging in full blown war. All right. That's me venting because it infuriates me because these are young kids. These are young kids who are dying. Nobody in America cares. The American government doesn't care. The American military doesn't seem to care. They're just counterfeiters. They're just sacrificial lambs. Not even clear what they're sacrificial for, but they're treated as sacrificial lambs. The United States better get serious about defending itself. It hasn't since the Bush administration, it hasn't since really Ronald Reagan in the Middle East. It hasn't been willing to defend its own people. People remember that in the Middle East, 241 Marines died in Beirut in 1983, and Ronald Reagan did nothing about that. And that was Iran. That was Hezbollah. And to this day, nothing is being done.  And when 9-11 happened, very little was done. And we in Israel are still suffering the consequences of that fact that we refuse. We refuse to actually defend ourselves. We refuse to actually take out the clear, our clear, unequivocal enemy in the Middle East, Iran, which has been at war with us for, you know, it appears that I'm going to be doing a debate on should America go to war with Iran with Dennis Kasinich. Do you remember Dennis Kasinich, the leftist? Anyway, it appears that I guess he was an advisor to RFK Junior until recently, and we were debating should the United States go to war with Iran probably at the end of this month, so that'll be available at some point. All right, let's see. Okay, finally, and then I'll take your questions. And again, I have to rush here. We don't have a lot of time. Finally, when was it on Tuesday? We had elections in the United States, and there was a ballot initiative in Ohio on whether to make abortion, basically a constitutionally protected procedure in the Ohio Constitution. There was also a governorial, an important governorial election in Kentucky. And there was state, House and Senate elections in Virginia. You know, all of these elections, I think, ultimately, were heavily influenced by the issue of abortion. The reality is that Americans are pro-abortion. That Americans believe that abortion should be a legal, legally protected. And the details of what trimester, what month, all of that, I think there's a lot of disagreement. But the fundamental issue of should women have the right to an abortion, Americans support that unequivocally. Everywhere where it goes up to a vote, Americans support it. Even in red states like Ohio. Ohio went for Donald Trump in 2016 and in 2020. Ohio has become a pretty red state. And yet, proposition one, I guess, issue one, which was to guarantee the right to abortion in the Ohio Constitution passed by a pretty solid majority. It wasn't really close. And this is in Ohio. And this is because a lot of women who vote for Republicans for a variety of other reasons Republican women, independent women, this is an issue that's important to them. It's also because this is an issue important to young people as it should be. They're the ones who are probably most likely to need abortion. And as a consequence, they come out to vote. So the abortion issue is a major, major positive issue for Democrats. It is a major, major, major negative issue for Republicans. And here we have it in Ohio. It's now constitutionally guaranteed. I'm not sure what would happen if the federal government passed a law that banned abortion, whether it would still be protected under this ballot initiative. I don't know the legality and the details of it. Same, you could argue that potentially, it's not clear exactly, but potentially something like this also happened in Kentucky. Kentucky is about a solid red state as any state out there in the union in the United States. And Kentucky has had for the last four years a Democratic governor and he was up for election. He had a real challenger, a Republican challenger who, you know, many people thought would beat him. Again, it's a solidly red state. And yet he ran to a large extent on the issue of abortion and protecting abortion rights. And as a consequence of that, he won, or at least that's one theory. I mean, he might have won for other reasons that have to do with him being a good governor. I don't know the details. But the reality is that Kentucky continues to have a Democratic governor, which is unusual again for a very, very red state as Kentucky is. And then finally, in Virginia where Yonkins is hailed as this amazing Republican governor, he's believed to be a future presidential candidate. Everybody loves Yonkins. He won as a Republican. He won in a Democratic state and he became a Republican governor. There was hope and belief and confidence even. There was real confidence that Republicans would gain the Senate and the House of Virginia. They would control the entire legislature of Virginia. Yonkins heavily, heavily campaigned for this. And there was belief that because of he is popular, Republicans would get excited and some independence on their side and that they would take the legislature. The exact opposite happened. Democrats won the legislature solidly, both the House and the Senate. And again, one of the big issues in Virginia that allowed the Democrats to win was the issue of abortion. Now, since Dobbs, Democrats have done way better in elections across the country, red, blue states, much, much better than you would argue they should have, much, much better than expectations. This issue brings people out. This issue is an issue, again, young people care about. This is an issue women care about. This is an issue that even I think people who usually vote Republican care enough about to not vote Republican. This is a right that women do not want taken away from them, do not want violated. And as a consequence of that, it's a winning issue for Democrats. Republicans have no idea what to do with it. They cannot turn their backs on abortion because it is a core issue for them and their base would not tolerate, except if you're Donald Trump. I guess Donald Trump is the only candidate who could actually come out and in a sense not be anti-abortion and still win and still get the base. Nikki Haley is trying. It's one of the reasons I support her. All the candidates out there, she seems to have, she's the one most willing to present a nuanced position on abortion. I still disagree with her on it fundamentally, but it's better than the rest of them. But the rest of them have no clue. And of course at the state level, at the other level, Senate campaigns, particularly House campaigns, Republicans have a real chance of losing. In some cases losing big because Americans fear that at the federal level we will get a ban on abortion somehow. So this is a big issue. I've been telling you this since Dobbs. And we've been watching the campaigns and we've been watching what's happening and time after time after time after time. This is an issue. This plays against Republicans. It's time to wake up. They don't, they won't, and they don't, and they can't. There's a sense of which they can't because they be holding to their base. But, you know, it'll go down that Dobbs probably did more damage to a Republican party than even Donald Trump. And of course Donald Trump is responsible for Dobbs with the people he appointed to the Supreme Court. All right, let's jump into the, to the super chat. We have made our goal. Thank you, Sylvanus. Sylvanus is coming with $100 and got us over the goal. We really appreciate that. So let's start with his, with his question. Sylvanus says that the risk of sounding conspiratorial. How likely do you think it is that the security failure of October 7th was premeditated to justify wiping out Hamas and went out of control? It defies logic that the system could be, could be that incompetent. I think the probability of that being conspiratorial or done on purpose in a sense is basically zero. Israel is not capable of such conspiracies. Israel is a sieve when it comes to keeping secrets like that. You have to think about the number of people that will have to be involved in something like that. Think about all the soldiers who died because they were overwhelmed, not just the civilians but the soldiers. There is literally somebody who was in the Israeli, Israeli intelligence and was in the Israeli army. There's literally a zero probability that this was done on purpose. This was a massive intelligence failure. It's not the first intelligence failure that Israel has suffered from. The Yom Kippur was another example. This one is worse. It has to do I think a lot more with the fact that Israel was distracted by this whole judicial reform issue. The demonstrations, the upheaval that that has caused. Again, it is not. Failures on this scale happen and they're not that unusual. Government is not very good at what it does. When it does a lot, as the Israeli government does, as the US government does, it even gets very, very sloppy and bad at the things that it typically is good at, like military and police. The more the government gets distracted with other things, the worse it becomes. I'll also add, as I've said in the past, one of the reasons for this failure was the fact that Israeli troops were moved out of the Gaza Strip, away from the border with the Gaza, to the West Bank to serve other domestic political challenges that the Israeli government created. This is a massive failure of the Israeli government, but it's also a massive failure of intelligence. We'll see how much, because there are some rumors, and I believe these more than I do that it's a conspiracy. There are some rumors that suggest that Israel was warned about this, both from Egyptian intelligence and from its own intelligence, and for reasons of hubris and reasons of arrogance and reasons of stupidity, that it ignored those rumors, and I believe all of that. So again, stupidity and incompetence is a much, much, much, much more likely explanation of what happened than any conspiracy, any conspiracy.  Having served in the IDF, I know how ignorant and how blind they can be, even at the cost of massive human life. I also think that one of the things that maybe is being hidden from us is the Iranian involvement, maybe even Russian involvement in hacking and silencing some of the surveillance equipment that Israel had. That is speculation on my part, that I don't know, but again, much, much, much more likely that the Iranians with Russian help hack the Israeli security system to allow these breaches than it is that there was any kind of security. There was any kind of anything else. Let's see. That was Sylvanus. Thank you, Sylvanus. We really, really appreciate the support, and let's see. Andrew asks, how do you explain that being pro-Israel does not mean anti-others? Well, I mean, I don't know how you explain that, but it is true that being pro-Israel does mean your pro-self-defense of Israel, that Israel defending itself, and that does make you anti-certain things, right? It does make you anti-Palestinian terrorism. It does make you supportive of anti-stuff. So being pro does have anti-implication. It depends how they define those anti. You know, one thing to do is to differentiate people who are peace-loving, right? Pro-I, Iran, pro-I. Oh, how do you explain that being pro-I does not mean being anti-others? Okay, yeah, I mean, that's relatively easy, because what you do pro-I means pro-me. I was thinking, I'm still thinking as well, Hamas. It's easy by showing how valuable others are to you in every dimension, from romantic love to friendship to just the trade-off principle of others producing to the benefits you get from capitalism, from just everything and everybody else and what they produce and what they create and how much it benefits you. So it's relatively easy to show that being pro-I actually means being pro many, many, many others, but productive of others. So just show how others add to your own life. Bradley, too, he was smart and worked hard, but resentful, possibly because he was physically weak and bullied. Many great men, jobs, must, going at, had the same experiences, but seemed to channel them productive. Yes, I mean, the reality is that we're not products of our environment. We're not products of how other people treat us. We're products of a particular genes. We are products of the choices we make. And there is no, well, why did he make that choice? Because he just did, because that's what he chose. That's what makes you, you, the choices that you make and the primary choice that you make, that jobs, must, wanted, makes and the reason Tui is different, is the choice of whether to engage your mind or not engage your mind, whether to be independent or not be independent, whether to succumb to the abuse of others or not to succumb to the abuse of others, whether to stand on your own two feet or not to stand on your own two feet, or boils down to fundamentally the choice to think or not to think, to accept reality or not to accept reality, to engage with reality or not engage with reality, focus or not to focus. Those choices, those fundamental choices of thinking or not, set the course of your life and you do them when you're very, very young and you repeat them over life and you have to engage with that choice every moment of your life and every moment that you default on that, that you don't engage, that you don't think, that you don't use your mind when it's necessary, is a moment where you lose a little bit. It's a moment where you become a little bit more like Tui and a little bit less like the heroes of the books, like Howard Walk. Daniel, thoughts on UNWRA, a UN agency funding was almost stopped in an amendment to HR 4665, Perry, Republican, Pennsylvania. U.S. tax dollars are still funding pro-Hamas propaganda on social media through accounts affiliated with the UN. Absolutely. I mean, the very fact that the United States is a member of the United Nations is a travesty. I've talked about it in the past and we'll talk about that in the future. It keeps coming up. The very fact that we fund United Nations agencies that provide money to Hamas and to other Palestinian organizations that are clearly anti-American and anti-American interests and promote the killing and ultimately destruction of American lives is a travesty. America should stop funding the United Nations. Every single frigging agency in the United Nations, every one of them, it should stop immediately and it should recognize explicitly the danger they represent to America and to its interests. It is, again, truly, truly horrific. Just breaking that the coups-missile attack on Elat, which I commented on earlier, was a coups-missile attack launched by the Houthis in Yemen. At some point, Israel's going to have to respond. The Arrow air defense system shot them all down. The explosion above the city of Elat were a consequence of the air defense system actually working and keeping the civilians safe. But the Houthis, I mean, it's ridiculous that they can get away with this and nothing happens to them. At some point Israel will have to free up its own ballistic missiles and maybe air force and go to Yemen and take care of these bastards. I hope they do it. Maybe they won't in the end because of U.S. pressure, not to expand the conflict. Israel's not expanding the conflict. The Iranians are with the Houthis and Hezbollah and Iranians directly. And this is all an Iranian conflict. And yet, let's take our head, bury it deep, deep, deep in the sand and pretend that it doesn't exist. Jennifer says, how come the monopoly question always seems to come up more than any other question? Any halfway honest economist knows monopolies are not a problem in a free market, but this confusion still prevails. Well, because it's taught in every econ 101 class, it's always an issue that anti-capitalist promoters raise. It is a big issue with the Biden administration because of Lena Hahn. So it's in the news constantly. When they're in high school and they take economic classes in high school, they talk about the evils of monopoly, the evil of standard oil, the evil. It's in every economics textbook is this idea of perfect competition and the idea of monopoly rents. It's just everywhere. It's in the culture. It's in every single class when they learn history and they learn about the 19th century and the Robert Barons monopoly is raised. And of course, they read the news and they watch TV news and they hear about the evils of Amazon and the evil of Apple and the evil of Google and that evil is derived from, of course, the fact that they are all monopolists or at least that's the story. So it's very, very difficult to get away with. My videos are monopoly are some of the most watched videos I ever do. I need to talk to Christian about making more videos about my Q&As, particularly the ones answering the monopoly question because I think this is the kind of video that can really be promoted and pushed out there into the world. All right, Andrew, it's Veterans Month of all the so-called aggrieved groups. It's veterans with problems for whom I feel most empathy. They speak about the damage that just war theory does to actual soldiers. You know, I've spoken about this a lot and, you know, let me say I don't have a lot of time right now, but let me just say the unbelievable injustice that's committed to them.  It's just a horrible loss of life for no good reason because of just war theory, because of American weakness and meekness and because of the pathetic nature of American foreign policy more broadly. But for every person who dies, there are, I don't know, I'm just going to guess, five to ten people who get injured. Some of those injured are relatively mild. Some of those injured are severe. And I don't think that even includes the number of soldiers that have PTSD, post-traumatic stress. The numbers are just staggering in terms of the tens of thousands of Americans that have been damaged by this since 9-11 in the field in Afghanistan, in Iraq and now in Syria. And all the consequence of the fact that America is timid, America is weak, America doesn't protect their lives, America doesn't care about their lives. You know, I've talked about this in the past about Afghanistan and how, yeah, I mean how generals and how Commander-in-Chief just didn't care. They just let them die. They just put them in positions where there was no other option but to die. And just the staggering cost in human life, in human life, not just in terms of ending, but just in terms of just less quality of life.  They go into battle without the tools to defend themselves properly, without the backing of the US government.  It's because I know how they're going to be treated by the people above them. And I just think it's horrible. And I don't think any child deserves to be treated that way by the United States government. And therefore I can't recommend serving in the US military. So yeah, the consequences of their lives are horrific psychologically and physically. And it's just quality of life snuffed out because, again, America won't defend itself, won't protect themselves. And those who don't quite understand what I'm talking about, please go find my essay on just war theory, just war theory versus America. Please go and read my evaluation of the damage just war theory has done to the United States of America and continues to do. Alright, David says, Turkey's a member of NATO. If Turkey makes good on their threat to enter the war, an Israel responds. Does that mean NATO countries have to attack Israel and protect Turkey? Theoretically, yes. That won't happen. But theoretically, that is the case. It is why it makes zero sense for a country like Turkey to be a part of NATO. The United States should extract Turkey from NATO, should kick them out. I know strategically that would be difficult because of US bases there, the nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey. But it is time to identify Turkey for what it is. It is a regime ruled by an Islamist, by an autocrat, by somebody who is much more sympathetic philosophically to the terrorists than he is to the United States.  But his sympathies ultimately lie there. I don't believe Turkey will act on it. I don't think they'll attack Israel. They're not suicidal. But the very fact that they are threatening that should be enough to justify kicking Turkey out of NATO.  And until that happens, we're going to continue to suffer from these wars. We're going to continue to suffer from just unbelievable instability and uncertainty. Okay, Jacob asked this yesterday, so let me quickly answer this, but I didn't get to it. Jacob says, if all Jews live outside of Israel, then no Israel, all Jews are at risk, absolutely. Given unprecedented rise of Jew hate, should we Jews all be living in Israel? I don't think that's a definitive statement. I think it's something that all Jews should consider doing, given the hatred towards Jews that is rising up in the West. You have to make an assessment. Is the value of living in, let's say, the United States worth the risk of anti-Semitism versus the value of living in Israel? That is, Israel is a good country. It's a great country, but in many respects, it's also a very difficult country. One of the difficulties is you went to every shelter every few hours right now, and some of the difficulties are you just have less opportunities in Israel than you do in the United States. And just other social issues that Israel brings to the table that don't exist elsewhere. So it's all a risk-reward trade-off that you have to make. Life is full of these. And I think one risk-reward trade-off of people who are identified by others as Jewish, whether they are self-identified or not, is whether the risks of staying in the West justify the benefits of being in the West vis-a-vis the alternative, which is to live in Israel. And I can't make that choice for you. I've made the choice for myself, and each person out there needs to make the choice for themselves. Andrew says, showing support, enjoying the shows. Thank you. Wyatt says, So your name on an INRAM Museum Foundation public recording, Texas. Are you at Liberty to talk about it yet? A RAM Museum is such a great idea. Wow. I mean, how did you get to a public record in Texas? No, I'm not at Liberty to talk about it yet. I'm hoping to be at Liberty to talk about it later this year.  If the idea of such a place and the idea of such a place in an architecturally significant building excites you and you have money, big caveat. And you have a lot of money and are willing to put a lot of money into such a project. And here, a lot of money, I mean seven figures. If you're willing to put in a million plus into such a project to make it happen, then please, please, please contact me. But other than that, no comment. Gail, very concerned about the new Iranian human rights leader in the UN. Yeah, I mean, that's right. UN is the leader of the Human Rights Commission. UN is a travesty and should be abolished. Frank says Ben Shapiro said your name at his talk in Madison, Wisconsin. It's not surprising. Ben knows me. He's interviewed me. We've exchanged emails here and there. It sounds like he was asked a question about the Adler Shog movie. I have been in communication with Ben Shapiro's people and the people working on the movie in the past. I haven't heard from them in a long time, so I don't know what the status is. But it doesn't surprise me. Ben Shapiro knows who I am. Certainly on certain issues we're allies and certainly on certain issues we disagree fundamentally. Fizzle says, coming from a place of neutrality on this one, but what if Ayn Rand was aborted? Then she wouldn't have existed. I don't understand that question. She wasn't. That's all that matters. You know, you don't make law based on the idea that somebody could be the next Ayn Rand and therefore you, we have to enslave you to raise them and be their parent just in case. That is not how rights work. A woman has a right to her own body. And a fetus is a part of her body and she has every right to eliminate that fetus. She has every right to preserve her bodily integrity by having an abortion. And that right should be protected and preserved certainly without any question for the first 20 weeks and I believe even beyond that, but certainly for those first 20 weeks where 98% of all abortions happen anyway. And I find the anti-abortion perspective, particularly in those early trimesters, to be beyond the pale. Paul says, if the House goes to the Dems and Trump wins, will he be impeached again? Sure, but what difference does it make? The Republican Senate will never impeach him, will never try him. And my fear is that if what happens is you get a Democratic House, let's say, and Trump wins and he still wants to get stuff done, he will do a lot of unconstitutional things. He will engage in more authoritarian action in order to get around Congress because he will not tolerate being said no to by Congress and that will just make him even worse.  Urum says, do you know the YouTube channel Traveling Israel? I do not. It seems to me, have good understanding of Israel's history and a war against Hamas, you should check them out. Interesting, I'm not surprised. Look, Israelis know, even leftists in Israel know. They know who they're up against. They know their own history. They know they're not colonizers. They might disagree with this policy or that policy. They might generally think Israel could have been better to the Palestinians and cut deals with them. And all of that I think ultimately is legitimate, but fundamentally they know.  They know what their history suggests. They know who they are in a way that I don't think even Americans know about themselves. So it doesn't surprise me that you'll see a bunch of good Israel channels that know the history and others. Okay. You know, does America have a foreign policy and rest? No, not in the sense of a long-term strategic thought-out, clear agenda. No, it is a by-the-knee reactionary, unprincipled, unstrategic, non-strategic policy that they engage in with the world. I don't think America's really had a foreign policy since World War II. It gets caught up in wars for no reason. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq. It does not have a strategic vision for the world. And when it tries to have something assembling that, it usually is a terrible altruistic vision, which leads to more death and destruction and is a bad influence on Americans a long-term strategic purpose. All right, now I know some of you have sent me emails with questions. I will get to those. I can't do those in these short shows. I will try to get to those once I get home on Sunday. I'll get to some of the questions you guys have sent me by email. I also know some of you would like to ask me questions who are not watching live. What you can do is you can make a contribution by PayPal and send me a question. I promise I will try to answer all of those questions. It does take me a little time to get to them because in the flow of the show, I forget about them and I focus on the super chat. But I will dedicate a portion of the show to answering those kind of questions. 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But that'll happen when I get back to Puerto Rico and we have a little bit more time and I can breathe a little bit because now I have to pack up my stuff here and run to meet the student who's picking me up and taking me to my talk here at the University of Utah, which I think is a private talk. It's a Federalist Society. Potentially you could just show up and come but I don't have with me the specifics. You would have maybe the Federalist Society of the University of Utah but it's happening. The talk is like in half an hour so it's maybe a 12.30 Utah time but it's very soon. All right. I will see you guys. I'm going to try to do a show tomorrow from Denver but certainly on Sunday when I get home I will do a show on Sunday. So see you guys soon. Thank you to all the Super Chatters. You were great. We made our targets. Keep it up and thanks guys. Thank you.


What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be sharing with you and talking about the WWE Hall of Fame 2020 inductees let's get right into this So now I have the full list of everybody who's getting inducted this year. There's a lot of great names So let's just get started here up first. I'm gonna start off with the Bella twins now The Bella twins are one of the inductees this year that a lot of people are not Really happy that they're getting inducted at least this quick They did announce prior to getting announced for the Hall of Fame They announced that they are officially retired from the WWE But I honestly feel like it'd be nice to see them make a comeback in the future Of course, Nikki Bella is pregnant and I believe Brie Bella as well But hopefully a year or so down the line whenever they already have the children Hopefully they can come back and at least get a shot for the WWE women's tag team championship I think after they retired once the tag team championship for the women's division came out It was honestly a missed opportunity for the Bella twins not to have a shot for the championship I think that was a little bit of low blow, but for Brie Bella She is a one-time divas champion and Nikki Bella is a two-time and longest reigning WWE divas championship. So in my opinion, even though they have had a really back-and-forth career They've had a lot of great rivalries and right up until the end when they announced their retirements and were leaving the WWE They had a huge run in my opinion and they're well deserving of going into the Hall of Fame Next up is the British Bulldog for years now fans other wrestlers and even fellow WWE Hall of Famers have wanted the WWE to induct Davey Boy Smith into the Hall of Fame as the British Bulldog However, WWE has never done so until now and it might have a lot to do with how much heat WWE has been getting every single year for not inducting him into the Hall of Fame in my opinion It should have been done a lot sooner But at least he is going in the Hall of Fame and they are honoring him He is a one-time intercontinental champion a two-time European champion a two-time hard-core champion and a two-time WWF World Tag Team Champion So he had a hell of a career and definitely in my opinion deserves to go in the Hall of Fame And I'm glad WWE is finally doing that. Next is the Justin Thunder Liger Now this is somebody who has only had a handful of matches Maybe even just one match in the WWE, but he was part of WCW and after that He did travel the world and has been part of various promotions He is a one-time at WCW light heavyweight champion And I believe his one and only match in the WWE was against Tyler Breeze in NXT Now he has had one hell of a lengthy career And I believe because he announced he's retiring officially and he's never getting back in the ring That's why WWE decided to have him go into the Hall of Fame. It makes sense. He was part of WCW He did have a match in the WWE. Why not induct him and I'm glad they are doing that Next up is JBL John Bradshaw Layfield And I'm honestly excited because this is somebody that I've been predicting for the past few years Was going to get in the Hall of Fame and WWE is finally doing it He is a one-time WWE champion a one-time intercontinental a one-time United States three-time tag team champion one-time European champion a Staggering 18-time hard-core champion I believe he has the record for holding that championship the most times and he has had so many positions in the WWE from being a general manager to being an announcer and even in ring competitors So he's had a great career in my opinion and above everything else He was the creator of WWE's tributes to the troops So he has had a great career one hell of a career has had numerous championships and a great run in the WWE I'm glad he's going in the Hall of Fame. I've been predicting this for years. I'm glad it's finally happening. Next up is the NWO. I don't believe anybody predicted that they were going to get inducted this year Of course last year's headliner was D generation X So my prediction was that NWO will not get inducted until the following year Leave one year in between because after the NWO what other faction is going to headline the Hall of Fame to me I'm not so sure. So in my opinion, they should have waited until they until at least next year Or maybe a couple more years before inducting them, but they definitely deserve to go in the Hall of Fame The one thing I will say is they are not Inducting the entire NWO. Of course when the NWO first started They had a numerous amount of people joined the NWO and I believe at one time They had almost the entire locker room as part of the NWO, which is crazy to think about so Of course the WWE is not going to induct everybody. Of course a lot of people just did not contribute to the NWO in Very big ways. So those that are getting honored into the Hall of Fame as part of NWO are Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and X-Pac. So the main forces of the NWO and the three originals Hogan, Nash and Scott Hall. So this is awesome to see them And I'm glad they didn't have everybody inducted into the Hall of Fame Because that would be a lot of inductees That is a huge amount if they inducted everybody that was part of the faction So I'm glad they only contributed to the main ones But of course there is a few others that could have been added to the names It's just WWE did not want to induct so many people and I believe they did a great decision doing so They well deserved it. They were a huge force in WCW and then later on in the WWE They had a huge amount of heat and the fans absolutely embraced it So I'm glad they're going in the Hall of Fame There was a few more names that were part of NWO that I wish were included, but I understand why WWE did not do so And the last WWE 2020 Hall of Fame inductee is Batista one of my favorite wrestlers of all time is finally going in the Hall of Fame Of course after last year's WrestleMania match against Triple H in my opinion It was a great match and even leading up to it everything with Ric Flair that Batista did I felt was awesome and I followed it to the tee It was amazing to see Batista getting back into the WWE because let's face it He's been getting more into acting, but he is an amazing actor. So I don't hate him for that I was just glad to see him come back But after WrestleMania facing Triple H He did lose after that he announced he was retiring which I did not want to see I liked the opportunity of having him come back for WrestleMania matches or different matches throughout the year Spontaneously, but I do understand that he's focusing more on his acting career and it makes sense business-wise for him He was a two-time WWE champion a four-time and longest reigning world heavyweight champion a three-time world tag team champion one-time WWE tag team champion and the winner of the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble he was an amazing force in the WWE I loved him early on and then whenever he came back with Triple H and Randy Orton as a reboot of Evolution and also part of the authority in my opinion. I thought that was amazing to see It's just his return to the WWE did not last too long And then eventually he came back for his retirement match against Triple H at WrestleMania. Everything was built up amazing I'm glad he's going in the Hall of Fame in my opinion if I had to pick the headliner I would not pick NWO even though they deserve to be a headliner My opinion the headliner this year is Batista But as of right now it is uncertain as of when they're actually going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame The date for the actual Hall of Fame ceremony is postponed due to COVID-19 But these wrestlers definitely deserve to go in the Hall of Fame and this year in my opinion as of previous years This year is the most elite Hall of Fame inductees meaning Everybody on this list deserves to go in the Hall of Fame in my opinion They have a lot of top guys going in the Hall of Fame this year and I can't wait for the actual ceremony So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please take care comment down below what you guys think of this year's WWE Hall of Famers and I will see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace