For years since 1950, during the short summer months, ships of the Military Sea Transportation Service have been going to the Arctic. They've been delivering supplies to our defense outposts, more than 2,500,000 measurement tons of cargo, and over 19 million barrels of fuel. This seaborn delivery has been the most massive logistic operation in Arctic regions ever undertaken. Pre-supply of the Dew Line in Suneck, Pribilof Island, and the development of a practical Northwest Passage. Dew Line is a string of distant early-warning radar sites ranging across North America from Alaska to Greenland. Suneck is the supply of the Northeast Command, consisting of large Air Force bases such as Tule and Goose Bay in the Labrador-Greenland area. The resupply of the U.S. ceiling industry on the Pribilof Island and the development of a practical deep-draft Northwest Passage through Bellot Strait as an escape route for MSTS ships. The more than 100 ships assigned to Arctic operations in 1957 were divided into two task forces, Task Force 5 in the Pacific, resupplying sites from Cape Lisbon, Alaska to Shepherd Bay and the Pribilof Island, and Task Force 6 in the Atlantic, resupplying the Labrador, Greenland, Baffin Island, and Fox Basin area. Units of both task forces would attempt the development of the Northwest Passage. A combined operation, MSTS, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Canadian, and commercially operated elements under overall command of Vice Admiral John M. Will, USN, Commander of the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service. Ships were dry docked throughout the country. Ice propellers and extra sheathing on sides and bows were installed for protection against heavy ice. Even small landing craft were specially reinforced for Arctic duty. Task Force commanders conferred with their staff and with commanding officers of ships to work out final details. Loading of ships occurred at various ports throughout the United States. Supplies needed for the continual operation of our Arctic bases made up this precious cargo. P.O.L., or petroleum, oil, and lubricating products, such as aviation gasoline, diesel oil, and lubricating oil, were loaded along the Gulf and California coast. Bulk P.O.L. was either transported in drums or pumped directly into waiting tankers. Caterpillars, cranes, tractors, and trucks needed by the Army stevedores to handle offloading on Arctic beaches were also taken aboard. Pacific ships assembled at Seattle, Washington, the staging area for Task Force V. Personnel of the Army Transportation Corps arrived and were embarked aboard ships. These men would handle the offloading on the beaches. The Hydrographic Survey Unit, the Coast Guard ships, Storus, Bramble, and Spar, departed Seattle on 1 July to conduct advanced surveys. As the final hour approached, wives, children, and sweethearts gathered to say goodbye to their loved ones. Farewell said, preparations were made to get underway. The main convoy sailed on the 16th of July. Various typeships made up the convoy. Experience gained in previous years proved small shallow-draft vessels were necessary to operate east of Point Barrow. Their shallow draft permitted them to take advantage of the narrow shallow-water ice-free leads near the coastline. The LST is used extensively because of its ability to go directly onto the beach for offloading. The Samavi, a small 5,000-ton shallow-draft dry cargo ship, carries the majority of the cargo, plus one or more LCMs for transporting the cargo to the beach. And the AOGs, a small T-1 tanker with capacity of 16,000 barrels. Supporting these ships were Navy and Coast Guard icebreakers to lead the way and assist ships be set in ice. ARSs, the light repair and salvage ships which have proven to be of great value for operational repairs. And the USS El Dorado, the command ship of Task Force 5, which directed operations from Point Barrow, Alaska. In advance of and during the entire operation, aerial ice reconnaissance missions were flown for the success or failure of an Arctic operation may well depend on advanced ice information and forecasting. P2V aircraft flew long-range flights to learn general ice conditions of a large area. Medium-range flights of R4Ds gained tactical ice information ahead of the convoy. The short-range flights were made by ship-based helicopters which operate with the convoy throughout the operation and provide close-range support. Approximately 50 miles from Point Barrow, the first Arctic ice and heavy fog were encountered. But transit was affected and the convoy rounded Point Barrow on July 29. Proceeding eastward, the convoy followed a relatively ice-free lead. It had been opened by favorable winds. This permitted unrestricted cargo offloading along the Alaskan coastline. Father Eastward, the advanced survey unit was encountering heavy ice in Amundsen Gulf. The polar pack had closed in and for a week they were beset in the ice. The survey ships were able to work themselves free when a shift in the wind eased pack pressure. The survey unit and main convoy encountered heavy ice conditions from Amundsen Gulf to Shepherd Bay, the terminus point of the western operation. While ice hampered the progress of the ships, it was no obstacle for the polar bear. Before the convoy arrived, all beaches, ice-infested or clear had to be surveyed. This dangerous job was accomplished by the underwater demolition team, better known as the Navy's frogmen, who are a part of the advanced survey unit. Information pertaining to depths of water, beach gradient and type of bottoms had to be obtained before ships could safely approach the beaches. When rocks, pinnacles and ice were encountered underwater, the obstructions were removed. No two beaches were alike. Each had its own unloading problems. Frequently, the LSTs were able to beach with dry ramps and discharge their cargo with little difficulty. Sometimes it was necessary to extend the beach to the LST. And at other times, LCMs and LVTs ferried cargo from ships to the beach. The Simavi is not designed for beaching. They anchored offshore and utilized their LCMs to transport cargo to the beaches. POL, carried in AOGs, was normally pumped through a floated hose directly to beach tanks. POL, in spare tanks of LSTs and Simavis, was either pumped ashore or shuttled in special tanks installed in LCMs and LCUs. The resupply of the Pribilof Islands was a routine affair. One cargo vessel, the USS Merrick, a.k.a. 97, carried supplies to the ceiling colonies on St. George and St. Paul Islands and brought back seal skins and other byproducts. These islands are the home of over 3 million seals. Upon completion of unloading in the west, three LSTs and three AOGs were transferred to the Canadian government. These ships were moored in the Mackenzie River Delta and frozen in for the winter for resupply of radar sites in the central Canadian Arctic in 1958. Operating procedures of Task Force 6 in the east were different in many respects. Task Force convoys were not formed, but ships sailed independently or in small groups for their destinations as ice conditions permitted. This is the land of rugged terrain and glaciers that flow down to the sea, where they break up into icebergs which average 200 feet from the waterline to the top. Seven-eighths of the volume of an iceberg is submerged, and since this portion may extend in any direction, they are an extreme hazard to shipping. Deep draft vessels are used on the Atlantic side. The Victory, a large cargo ship. The T2 tanker for delivery of POL. And the LSD, used to transport LCUs and Army personnel and their equipment from beach to beach. Past experience proved that in early summer, a lead of open water develops along the west coast of Greenland. This permits ships to resupply the Suneck bases without serious ice difficulty, all the way to Tully Air Base on the northwest tip of Greenland, only 770 miles from the north pole. Some major bases, such as Tully, having dock facilities, did not require amphibious-type unloading operations. However, the precipitous rocky, rugged beach terrain along the Baffin Island and Labrador coastline made unloading more difficult than the low beaches of the West. At times, extreme tidal ranges left amphibious boats temporarily stranded, slowing operations. These same tidal conditions increased navigational hazards in the dangerous, shoal and pinnacle-strewn channel into Frobischer Bay. This channel had grounded two tankers in previous years. The Canadian HMCS Labrador, during offloading proceedings, developed and charted a new and more suitable deepwater channel. As ships moved into Fox Basin, they encountered the worst ice conditions experienced in recent years. Led by icebreakers, the ships pounded their way 100 miles through dense ice. Despite damage to some ships, the radar sites in Fox Basin received their needed supplies. Throughout the operation, men from various ships along the resupply route had the opportunity to learn many things about the North and its inhabitants. The construction of the due line has brought Western civilization closer to the Eskimo. This project has afforded employment to many and is affecting their way of life. However, the majority still pursue the life of their forefathers. Colorful plants flourished during the short Arctic summer. Approximately 12 miles south of Point Barrow stands a memorial to Will Rogers and Wiley Posts, marking the spot where they crashed. On August 15, the 22nd anniversary of the fatal crash, the United States Navy paid tribute to these two great Americans. At Point Barrow, Alaska, the Polar Pack ice closes an impenetrable door during much of the year. The door opens annually for a brief and unpredictable shipping season. This year, as in the past, ships of the Western Task Force were fortunate in making their escape around Point Barrow before the ice encroached the land. This swinging door has been a vital concern to mariners sailing these waters and particularly to the commander of the military sea transportation service. This trap, which almost claimed the MSTS convoys in previous years, emphasized the need for a practicable deep-water escape route to the east. MSTS ships had penetrated from both east and west, surveying the previously uncharted waters as far as Shepherd Bay to the eastward and Lancaster Sound to the westward. Bellot Strait was singled out as the probable key link to the passage, after a detailed study of the area between points of ship penetration. From a reconnaissance flight made in 1956, while the Strait was relatively ice-free, the commander MSTS and his party observed no visible navigational hazards, and he decided to include a survey of this area during the 1957 operation. Bellot Strait, a narrow waterway dividing Somerset Island and Boothia Peninsula, the northernmost point of the mainland of continental North America, had previously been traversed. Small shallow draft ships had transcended the Strait, but actual survey and water depth were never recorded in sufficient detail. If depth proved sufficient, a practical deep-water northwest passage would be completed. The Hydrographic Survey Unit, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storus and the Bowie Tenders Bramble and Spa, was assigned to survey from Shepherd Bay through James Ross and Franklin Straits to the western approaches of Bellot. Approaching from the east would be the task of the HMCS Labrador, operating as a task unit under Commander Task Force 6. The Labrador arrived at the eastern approaches on the evening of August 21, and work began the following day with an aerial survey. Except for Magpie Rock, a submerged pinnacle just inside the eastern entrance to the Strait, no other hazard to navigation was noted. Supplies were taken ashore to Fort Ross, an abandoned Hudson's Bay Company trading post. It was used during the survey as a support base for small craft and helicopters from the Labrador. Special markers were erected as aids in triangulation, necessary for accurate surveying. Tide gauging poles were placed at each end of the Strait to record rise and fall of the tide. As the survey proceeded, shore parties erected permanent radar navigation reflectors to assist future navigators when transiting the channel. The Labrador sound boat, Pogo, made several transits of Bellot Strait, recording depths at spaced intervals by means of automatic depth recorders. On August 24, preliminary survey work completed, HMCS Labrador drawing 28.5 feet of water with Pogo in the lead, entered Bellot Strait for the historical passage, the first deep draft ship ever to attempt the transit. Two hours later, the message was flashed. Passage of Bellot Strait accomplished, minimum depth, 50 feet. The three Coast Guard ships, having completed their surveys of Simpson, Ray, James Ross, and Franklin Straits, despite heavy ice and fog conditions, rendezvoused with the Labrador in Franklin Strait at the western approach to Bellot. Behind them stretched some 2,500 miles of charted waterways with supporting oceanographic data. Here, the commanding officer of the Labrador invited the Coast Guard skippers on board to discuss the west-east transit of Bellot Strait. And on September 6, the four ships formed into a column and steamed through the strait. On the eastern side, the ship stopped briefly to visit Fort Ross. A message recording events of the historic passage was placed in a box and left behind for future travelers to read. With the successful development of a practical deep draft northwest passage through Bellot Strait, the resupply of Suneck bases and the U.S. ceiling stations on the Pribilof Islands as well as the sites of the due line, ships of the MSTS Arctic operation turned south and headed home, leaving the Arctic frontier equipped for another year.


That's just fun to watch he is backs fresh off of his defense of his championships slam dunk there he is to us from a car I like this I like this for you Mac I don't know what's going on here congrats by the way what was the celebration like for you and Indy it was great all my friends and family were there so just kind of enjoying it with them and really just taking it all in Mac out of last year's performance obviously that was one for the ages but this dunk contest versus last dunk contest how would you compare them which one were you most proud of they're both you know I was really you know grateful for both but I think definitely the first one but I had more in the tank on the second one I just you know I just it didn't go as well for me but you know I'm glad about the outcome but I definitely I definitely think I had a better performance in my mind all right Mac let's be honest Jalen Brown wasn't supposed to be in that fight what's your what's your opinion on that did you did you think any of the other guys were more deserving or what was your experience yeah I mean I think Jacob Toppin you know has some incredible dunks and I heard he had a crazy dunk for the last dunk but it's hard for me to like you know make opinion about someone else's opinion like I can't you know judge for the other guys and you know yeah no it was it was tough I definitely thought he was great and I thought you know Jalen Brown wasn't as you know I know people are giving him our time but I thought he had some good ducks too which one Wow I mean the 360 women like it's not as easy as he made it look I mean there's a lot of things I think I think he definitely got some flak for the kai's and that one but I don't know man Duncan and being on that stage is not easy so I wouldn't I wouldn't get flack to anybody he said he stepped up and did that which was big for him in our game thank you it's with him back did you love that there was an all-star that was competing with you like did that put any more pressure on you or do you think that was great for the dunk contest yeah it definitely is good I mean we want the all stars to be in it and people who want to be in it so I thought that was really cool him and your first dunk the self-value you called the the whoop-whoop that was incredible and it only got the score of 48 from the judges who by the way I thought the judges were pretty horrendous were you surprised no no not a 50 on this that dunk was because this is insane yeah incredible bro look at this yeah so I mean I was I was I usually put my arms out a lot farther on it but so I didn't I didn't you know if it didn't get a 50 I understood but no it's probably the hardest dunk I had to do all night so I was I was I definitely was surprised it got a 47 or 48 whatever it got I was a little stressed for you right here Matt because that the judges were getting crushed rightfully so it's almost like they didn't know that you know doing it on the second attempt is not to be taken points off and then I thought if Matt doesn't advance because the judges suck I think it's gonna be a problem oh yeah that being said when you practice these dunks for example a guy like Shaq there aren't a ton of stand-ins walking around earth that look like Shaq how do you practice that dunk yeah so I just had a bunch of my friends come and they would stand on boxes stand on chairs yeah but no we would just get a measuring tape and try to figure it all out but I'm glad it worked out that's all it's crazy no push-off no nothing nothing wow Matt how many hockey has also used Shaq as a prop but when you saw him did you did you consider like changing things up or you knew when he used Shaq the way he did it like my dunk is gonna be better than that so it's tough because I didn't do to the dunks I was supposed to do and one of them was involved Shaq but a little something different and I don't know maybe I'll just keep that myself so I can maybe if I do it again I can use it but no there's a lot of off the off the top just random randomness in that dunk contest for me yeah Matt the dunk over Shaq obviously got you 50s and you won the dunk contest but when like when did you when did you ask Shaq like can you do this did you rehearse with him at all like how did that kind of develop yeah so I got a decent relationship with Shaq he's been very supportive me since even high school just checking in with me I texted him like hey would you know would you do that with me and he was like yeah but I didn't tell him about the jersey till in front of everybody I was like you know I'm just gonna wait and it'd be hard to know say no in front of everybody he was really cool and he said I better not miss it but if he puts on the game city jerseys I was like all right I won't miss it Matt I know you said did you had a couple of dunks still in your back pocket so I was gonna roll over to next year are you gonna unveil them on Instagram or something we'll see man I don't know you know I probably two days out from it I'm just gonna keep thinking and and see if it's right and and we'll go from there we're writing it down we're keeping notes yeah so when you look at next year's dunk contest obviously a lot has to do with what where your future is at where you're playing but do you do you right now two days out do you feel like you want to do the dunk contest again how do you view the dunk contest after two years of doing it and winning it yeah I really don't know I really don't know what I even you know my energy towards it would be and it just be happy to be something I think about it's not something I would say I'm not doing it's not something I would sign up for right now so I would just just think on it really really deeply and try to figure out my hearts in the right place for it and if you know it takes a lot of your body it's not something that's easy to do so it's a long preparation and and and you know dedication if you decided to do it again and it felt right and it felt good considering your opponents who would be your dream team of guys you would like to compete against yeah I mean it's great to have the stars out there I don't know I want people to do it who really want to do it though you know I mean because it's like we were saying it's the it's the craft it's a lot of preparation it's not easy it can be embarrassing you know so just someone who really wants to and I think some of these stars that are super athletic should do it and and it could be nothing but good form and no offense to us but we figured we bring someone in who knows a lot about dunk so Vince Carter was there in Indy then so what did you think would you see I was impressed man I mean look here what back just said man just gives me chills because I've been saying it it's it's you want the stars and the people who are able to do it to do it to get in there and which I think I'll make a great competition and I think that's what we're missing but forcing these guys to do it you won't get the what you know what you really want and I love the fact that those guys you know obviously Mack is defended but like Jalen Brown and Jaime and in top and getting in it but you know because they want to and you're gonna get their best effort but it's time to see you know for these superstars to just come on out there and put on the show they're very capable of it you know bump the brand I think if you put a great show on your brand will be safe regardless if you want to lose you you push the envelope you know everybody's gonna enjoy the competition Aaron Gordon who didn't win we're still like hey his brand was okay he didn't take a hit no it didn't Mack how many how much inspiration how much motivation how many ideas do you get from someone like Vince or some of the past dunk contest participants yeah I think with a guy like Vince it was like you kind of learn from his swag with it like he just came in there so like confident and it played to the fans like it's just it's it's really a lot like you have to really think really deeply and it just kind of be your aura and your determination for it and I think I got that from Vince just like his swag coming into the arena like I'm here you know I got I wanted to be in it you know I felt like this was an opportunity I wanted to be in it obviously I you know the league asked but I wanted to be a part of it and when once you get there like I said man you have to you have to be confident and I prepared for it like I took it seriously and you know it wasn't just oh I'm here I'm going to just have fun and just go about it now I approached it you know like a game day and I was just ready to go and I think that's why I was able to put on a great show like Mack has done by the events can you judge next year please thank you because see no no because see here's my thing I was on I was actually on true TV doing the contest so I just more so gave my opinions on it and you know since we're here it says Mac you're here I want to say to him that I was I was impressed about it's a lot of pressure obviously defending and you know however you view the competition however fans do the competition whatever it is you still have to go out there and do your job and the one thing I was impressed with Mac was he did what needed to be done in each situation and what I mean by that is I think the last dunk he could have pushed the envelope and I've seen video because I've seen you before I've seen video and I know with that dunk there's other things that you can do with it that I've seen you do like dunking from from behind I know that but he did the right dunk it was wowing but it was safe for him and he got the job done which I thought he thought things through a little bit and I was impressed with that so I got to ask both of you I got you here prime Vince Carter oh man prime Mac McClung who are we taking in the dunk contest don't don't it's not close man it's not even close that's Vince all day man don't don't even don't even do that to me hey man you don't have to answer it like but I would love the competition you know that's what that's what it's all about I know the NBA years ago tried to get and put a lot of money up for for the best to do it and you know that would be you know prime Vince would want all the smoke with everybody because like it's just gonna bring the best out of me and Mac would you have to prepare differently no one you're going against the goat dunker Vince Carter I might have to start two years in advance just thinking and you didn't just dunk by the way there was the rising stars game which was fun did you did you enjoy that what was a memory that you took out of that game yeah I mean it was a good we won I know it's an exhibition game it's a rising stars but I don't know I can't get on the floor and not compete that's just that's just me so just have the G-league guys win I mean that meant some to me and you know I thought you know I played well and my teammates played well so it was a lot of fun oh yeah no you guys weren't playing which was it was actually quite fun to watch what's what's going on basketball future wise like do you have plans you have goals like where are you right now I know you're in Osceola what happens next right I think for me it's just to keep flying pressure I feel like my whole life that's that's what I've done to plot pressure keep showing taking any excuses away that's that's what I try to do every year and if I'm in Osceola then I'm gonna try to win a championship with Osceola that's that's really it but it's all God's timing and I'm gonna keep flying pressure I'm not gonna quit love that Mac and after watching the rising stars game and you belong in the NBA is you're not just a dunker man you're a hooper so keep working hard so you want to see you in the NBA and we damn sure want to see you back again for the three Pete damn right hey I want to say something to that Mac you know like for me the dunk contest open open the door and gave me the opportunity and I like what you're saying is like it wherever I am right now I'm gonna do my best and continue to take advantage of this opportunity you're in the dunk contest you're getting to show your skill you know obviously in your athleticism but yes in the rising stars you guys really came out and played hard that's how you open doors and that's how you get that opportunity because there's some team moving forward that's gonna need guys and that was a platform where everybody got to see your skill so I think keep taking advantage of these opportunities I appreciate it guys it's been a pleasure man we appreciate the time congrats again hope to see you in San Francisco next All-Star Week and Vince don't go anywhere you're sticking around we'll have more running back after this


Okay, evening all. Thanks for joining me. I hope you're all doing well. It's a sort of a strange day today, isn't it? Everyone's to be a little bit down in the dunks. Especially if you're a football fan, you'd be down in the dunks today. Well, there's drift falls. So first of all, I want someone, can someone give me a shout, please, and let me know if this is transmitting okay, because I've had a few internet problems today. Virgin is, it can be really dreadful, and particularly if the weather is even remotely bad, and it is, it's been terrible all day. So it's probably not helping people's cheerfulness or otherwise. So a couple of things I want to tell you about before we start. You'll know that I mentioned last week, other week before, that we have hired an expert in promotions and and our inputs and in looking at everything from start to finish in the party and seeing what can be improved. And we are going, we're running with this, we're not going to sit around talking about it forever. It's starting. And one of the things that is changing is this, is this live stream. That will be from next Monday. And this is tonight, the last of the live streams in the current form. We're going to be changing it quite a bit. We looked at everything, including the background here, which we're going to keep with some minor changes going to be new. Come, my dogs are barking. I have no idea why. I think it's partly because I haven't been out today, because the weather is shocking. We're sorry about that. Because it's everything is going to change immediately. I will not, not everything, but things are going to change. What is going to change is going to change immediately, including so that tonight will be the last live stream in its current form. We will still have a live stream, but everything is being pushed up a notch and improved. Videos in particular are going to be regular and professionally made from now on, starting this week. And on Thursday, I will be filming for the first time of my new regular filming slot. Everything is going to change. Again, not everything, but things are going to be improved and anything that we can improve will be improved. Right, so that will all start from next week. And we'll be making more improvements as we go on. And thanks, Merriam. Merriam just texted me to say YouTube. It's transmitted. Okay, so thank you, Merriam. A couple of things I want to talk about tonight. And I haven't sort of decided on a topic for tonight, because there are a few different things. I've been reading a lot of news today, doing a lot of thinking about things, actually, and watching some documentaries. Because I mean, I say quite regularly and routinely, and I say it because I think it's true, that what has happened to our society is essentially the communismization of Western society. Today, I watched this amazing documentary on Amazon Prime, I think, called North Korea, The Great Illusion. I've mentioned to you that I want to write about how Western society is turning communist. You may not call it that. We may never call it that, but we don't have to if it works like a dog, etc. And it was, it's called North Korea, The Great Illusion. And so much of it fits with how we are becoming, not just in this country, but across the Western world. And the subtitle of The Great Illusion, essentially what it showed is that public life is a theatre. And things are put on events are put on for public consumption. And people are absolutely duped, brainwashed beyond belief. And shown a theatre. There's a theatre going on over here. The people are watched. The reality is going on over here while the people are watching the theatre. We are not so far removed from that ourselves. And this increasing left wing dominance of all public debate is insidious and deceptive. And it has reached into every corner of life, including I've got to give you an example of the theatre that we're watching while reality happens behind the stage. This has creeped in. This left wing dominance of discussion of debate has creeped into all areas of life, including, and to be very, to be pertinent to what's going on and what's been happening for the last couple of weeks and what happened last night, including sport and very much including football. We woke up morning to various articles about racist abuse of football, particularly the ones who missed their penalties in the penalty shoot at the end of the game. Now, like any decent person, I condemn this. I think it's dreadful. I also would like consistency, though, for those who are jostling to get to the front of the queue to condemn this racist abuse. I wish they would be consistent and condemn anti-white abuse, anti-white violence, but we know that that's never, ever going to happen. That's where politics comes in. This isn't about condemning racial abuse per se. It's about promoting racial division and anti-white sentiment at the same time. This is portrayed, we are portraying what will be believed by pretty much everyone. White walking class, naturally enough, football fans as monsters. That's where the news is this morning. And that suits, that suits the political narrative, the left-wing political narrative. White equals evil. This is a Marxist theory of the oppressor and the oppressed. Whites are evil. We know this. All non-whites are victims of whites. We know this as well. They're this perpetuate this morning all the news is about this racist abuse, and this is perpetuating this theory. I watched just before I came on an interview at Gary Neville on, I think it was one of the breakfast shows. And in his analysis of the football match last night, he tacked the toys. And the fact that Boris Johnson had said, and you can see this all over social media today as well, particularly in the firing line, is Boris Johnson and Pretty Patel. They had both said that it's okay. Apparently, I don't remember this myself if I don't know if anyone remembers this, but apparently they said it was okay to boo this players getting down on their knees. I think Pretty Patel called it gesture politics and Boris Johnson in some way defended the players or fans who boo players for getting on their knees to black lives matter. Gary Neville in his interview about the game went on to attack Boris. And if we have a prime minister, he said, that defends racism. Then what do you expect to happen after black players miss a penalty in the showtime? It is in every aspect of life. So what is really happening there? Again, this is not about demigration abuse, all decent people condemn that. It's about the Marxist portrayal, this, this Marxist narrative of the white as the oppressor and black as the oppressed. This will continue into the Olympic Games, which is coming up soon. There will be politics in that as well. Part of it will be the fact that there is a man competing in the women's weightlifting tournament. If there are protests about this, if fans boo this male who is taking part in a women's contest, if fans do it, they will be no doubt condemned as trans folks.  Regards of the political ideals held by black lives matter, there's an extreme left ideology that they promote. And I don't believe, by the way, this is part of, this is what, when I was watching this thing about North Korea, this really struck me. I saw, not the Sight's Game, but previous to that, and when the players got down on their knees, you heard an applause. I don't believe it. I'm sorry, I don't believe that. I think that's put there. I think it's faked. I genuinely do. I don't believe for a second that the audience applauded this the way they were shown to applaud it. So what we have is footballers promoting left-wing politics, even though politics and sport are supposed to be separate. That's kind of the whole point of it. They're supposed to be kept apart. And they still would be if it was anything but left-wing politics.  I don't like that comment either, not because it's offensive, but because letterboxes don't actually symbolise rejection of wider society and they don't symbolise a vicious totalitarian system of beliefs. And I guarantee it. I guarantee it as well. When we get to the Olympic Games, this laurel-hobbard male, any protests will be covered up. If there is any booing, it will be covered up.  This is extremely, it's deceptive, it's insidious, it's very, very dangerous. And left-wing ideals are put into every aspect of our lives now. And don't think for a minute that this constant beating on about racist this and racist that, that a, that it's not creating more racism, it is. It's turning people against each other.  The Metropolitan Police all over this, all over this. And the calls are for whoever is doing this to face the most severe penalties, the most severe, severe punishment is a phrase I've seen bandied around about this. Don't think for a minute that this is limited to people racially abusing footballers on social media. There's also a debate I saw today about whether or not we should be able to be anonymous online. And the internet was supposed to bring us freedom. It really was. It was supposed to give a voice to people who otherwise wouldn't have had a voice. Now what we have is censorship. And yes, people should be able to be anonymous online. But we will have this increased censorship. And it will be used this same catastrophizing of all this will be used to silence non left wing voices even more as we go to the future. And the last point on this before I move on from it about Marcus Rashford, so Dover MP Natalie Elphick apologizes over penalty comments. This is in the BBC from this afternoon. A Conservative MP has apologised after asking Marcus Rashford should have spent more time affecting his game rather than playing politics. Natalie Elphick, the Tory MP for Dover and Dale made the comment in a message to MPs after the Euro 2020 final. Rashford was one of the three England players who missed penalties at the end of the match on Sunday. The England footballer last year waged a high profile campaign over the provision free school meals. Prime Minister George Johnson was forced into a uton over the issue. There's another glaring red flag here that footballers are ultimately determining government policy. At a private message to colleagues, Elphick said they lost. Would it be ungenerous to suggest Rashford should have spent more time affecting his game and less time playing politics? Now Marcus Rashford is back. She didn't mention him being black.  But you just know, you just know that there's an implication of racism there. It's everywhere you turn. And baby, isn't she right? Isn't she got the right to say it? And what's wrong is, what's really wrong is that she apologised. And this was reported by GB News. And she apologised. She said, I applaud the England team who gave their all in Euro 2020. Last night I shared the frustration and heartbreak of millions of other England fans. I regret messaging privately a rash reaction about Marcus Rashford's misplanting and apologising and apologising to him for any suggestion that he's not fully focused on his football. And of course, Labour all over this. While Angela Rayner, while the country was commiserating our great team, Tory MPs were snaring at the inspirational players who stepped up to feed hungry kids when they voted to leave them. I mean, look, it's enmeshed for foreign politics now. Enmeshed. This is how bad it is. This is how bad this is getting. And again, I promise you, watch, wait for them. I love the Olympic Games, but wait for it. It's going to be completely political. We will have men in women's tournaments. We will have women, Muslim women playing in hijabs. We will have just it's completely, completely, we will completely politicise the Olympic Games as well, only, only in the direction of left-wing politics and only in a way that supports the narrative that we can't make a joke. We can't make a comment. We can't criticise in any way anyone who happens to not be white. We can't do that. And open border globalist politics will be all on display at the Olympic Games. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind. It is everywhere, all the time. And the left are very, very powerful and they will use to silence yet more people. So while this was happening, while the country's eyes were on football over the last few weeks, something has happened that hasn't really had a great deal of fanfare. Something very, very serious and very important has happened that has been largely ignored. Actually, a couple of things, and I'm going to tell you about one of them. The other one is the theatre. The best example of theatre I can find. Here's a report from the event standard from two days ago. Now we were told that this was never going to happen. We were told more than once that this was never going to happen. Now it's happening it's happening quietly. Something that has been described as a fourth lockdown for pubs is quietly passing without comment. And here's the headline. COVID passports will pulsary in pubs, clubs and restaurants. It goes on. COVID certificates will be needed to enter pubs, bars, restaurants and clubs under plans to stave off a fourth wave of the virus in the autumn. The proposals would mean Britain's will have to show vaccination passports to prove they are double jabbed or have had a recent negative test before entering entertainment venues. Experts hope the move will increase the stalling vaccination rates among young people and limit another surge in cases. A death street source told The Times in autumn, vaccine passports could become an important tool that allows us to keep things open. If we can show the real benefits of getting vaccinated in terms of everyday life, then it could be quite a useful tool. Now I know that there are mixed feelings about vaccination within party and in the wider public. But let me just be very clear about one or two things. We were told there would be no compulsory vaccination. Now we're being told that if you want a life of any kind, if you want to go out for something to eat, if you want to go to a play or a film or if you want to live, you have to get this vaccination. This is imposition of a medical treatment when we are not very experienced with, I don't want this, I don't want this vaccination. I'm alarmed by it, I don't, I don't want it. But if I want to leave my house and do anything and have a life of any kind, I'm going to have to and many people will be in the same position. Now you can, however you feel about COVID, however you feel about vaccination, this is not a free society, this is not a free country to be against your will, vaccinated against which we were told in the very early stages of this was going to harm a tiny minority of people and people already had serious illnesses.  And yet here we are, promise after promise after promise later that we will not, this is not a prison camp, this is Great Britain, I've got to force you to take vaccinations you don't want. But now they effectively are going to force us to take vaccinations we don't want if you want to go anywhere at all. Now I wonder, I wonder whether or not there will be freedom for a market to develop that doesn't require this, I very much doubt it, I doubt it if that, you know my sister had said to me that the market will sort this out, if the market is, because she doesn't want to get it either and I said but you don't you, what if it comes to the point where you literally can't go out for a meal or you know can't go to a party, can't go to a pub, can't go to a cinema, can't live, she said I think the market will sort it out, so in other words a market will develop which doesn't require this and those who want to go to these sorts of venues will go to them and will sort of have a, now I think that would happen if the market had the liberty for that to happen. So it doesn't say in this article whether or not the market will be able to sort this out and whether or not people will be able to free develop venues if there will be restaurants allowed to open or allowed to opt to not ask for these certificates. I find that really quite alarming, I really do and like I say regardless of what your view is on this, I do not like the idea of being forced to take a fairly new vaccination and one that has harmed people, I mean it may be a small percentage of people but if you're in that small percentage then the statistics don't matter to you, your life will be destroyed, a small chance or not, that's what's happened in the last couple of days. What we were told would categorically never happen is now happening, we are going to have to get this thing, if we want to go outside the door, if we want to have a social life, if we want to have a life and that has quietly entered the discussion debate around this in the last few days. Another thing that has happened that has been really quite quiet and this is the theatre that I was talking to you about. While opportunists disguising themselves pretending to be refugees are coming to this country illegally every single day, while that's happening you're not supposed to see that, you're not supposed to look at that. So to distract you from that, the government is putting on a stage show over here much like they do in North Korea. The Crown Prosecution Service hiding that it will not prosecute asylum seekers crossing the channel illegally.  I think it's a joke, theatre, again. Within this little piece of theatre, let me tell you what's happening, the Crown Prosecution Service is pretending a couple of things. It's pretending that there was ever a possibility that these illegal immigrants pretending to be refugees would have been prosecuted. Anyway, they're pretending that. They're presenting us with a pure, pure deceit, pure deceit. So the pretence is that they would have been prosecuted or they could have been prosecuted, we all know that's not true, not that we don't have prosecuted, give me a break. So they want to pretend that that was a possibility. And now they're ruling out that possibility. The Tory government has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service saying this is an invitation for immigrants to cross the channel. That is pure theatre, pure theatre. CPS is pretending there was a possibility of prosecuting, then declares that there isn't, they're not going to prosecute anyone. The Tories decide to enter from this side of the stage and pretend they are appalled by this. This is an invitation for illegal immigration. Are you mad? Give me a break. Give me a break. The Tories, A, they could do something about this. They actually are the government. They can tell the CPS what to do. They can. They act like they have no power in all of this. Now, we don't want a little pack of dictators, but for crying out loud, why are the Tory governments, funny there was something we could do. There is, you're in government, do something. But this is all a sham. Pretending to be disgusted by this is a sham. Accusing the CPS of sending an invitation to the world to come here illegally. That is really, really rich coming from the Tories. Really rich. It is the Tories who are overseeing all of this. That's the reality over here and over here. They're on stage pretending to be appalled by it all. And genuinely, genuinely, your brain hurts when you think about this stuff. Speaking of stage shows and absolute shams, I want to show you some figures. And then I want to read you an email address today. Have a look, first of all, at these figures. I'll leave them on the screen. Now, that is watering those figures. You can barely, you can barely contemplate how much money is this green agenda. It's barely, you can't fathom how much money there is, but guess who's going to be paying it? Just have a guess. Who's going to be footing the bill for this? And it too is overwhelmingly a sham. It is. Another thing I watched today actually was An Inconvenient Truth. I didn't watch it all because I found it just insufferably dull actually. But this has been going on for such a long time.  Carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide, they would be in our life on air.  And it's been going on for years. And I've said this before, when I was a kid, it was fossil fuels and the ozone layer. And we were, we had a few years left when I was a child at Primorscope. I remember this.  And we only had a few years to correct this or else. That was when I was a child. And we're still here, remarkably. We're still here. So this has been going on for a long time. What is actually behind it, though, is severe restrictions on freedom. And I talked about lockdown, climate lockdowns before. That severe restrictions on our freedoms will be the great reset, the new great this new, what the World Economic Forum has been talking about, this great reset of we want, they told outright, didn't they? You won't own anything. You won't own anything, but you'll be really, really happy. Of course you will. Now, what is not, why is not owning anything really significant? Because you have no power then. If you don't own anything, you have no power over it. It's not yours. You can see this happening with the advancement of technology as well.    You buy that film again. And your music on your phone, you're basically leasing it. So when you get a new phone, I know you can transfer these things over, but you know, we're basically leasing things. And what you, the music or films that you own are stored by a big tech company, you know, technically just, it's something wrong here, something wrong, nothing is, things are getting less and less tangible. And with, you know, with the loss of cash as well, things are less tangible. You're losing, when you don't own anything, you lose a great deal of your power. And this green agenda as well is going to place restrictions on buying and selling houses. It's going to place restrictions on what vehicles we can or can't drive. Even how I expect it to, I mean, we're cold, we're about to travel, nothing would surprise me, nothing would surprise me anymore. Possibly even limiting how far we can travel. And people are being priced out of travel as well with this green thing. It's a dramatic, dramatic, dramatic erosion of freedom. It is a dramatic increase in control of our everyday lives. And this green agenda is hugely important to the globalists and those who want to remove the power of the individual. It's a collectivist thought process, a globalist thought process that you have a global problem like quote unquote, global warming, you have to have a global response. And this again is the bringing down of borders and the end of the nation state. And the end of that, our power, our control over our own lives is very rapidly being taken from us. I've been interested in email this afternoon. And it says Boris Johnson's enthusiasm for retaining zero carbon emissions by 2050 is not shared by all in his party. So can this relatively recent convert to the green agenda persuade conservatives, the price tag is worth it. This is a Rosamund Irwin report. And this is, I'll read it, I'll read a little bit. It says in December 2015, after world leaders united in Paris to climate change, a column appeared in the Telegraph. It had been a mild winter. And the writer complained he had found himself sweating at the office Christmas party, only to open the window and discover it was even warm outside. Pondering whether this long awaited inflection point, when winter is over forever, he called Pierce Corbyn, the meteorologist and climate change denier on whose advice he dismissed it as mere weather, rather than global warming. That columnist was Boris Johnson. So in nutshell, Boris Johnson hasn't always been the green agenda pusher that he is now fast forward to 2021. And Johnson has recast himself as an environmental warrior ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this autumn. The Prime Minister and COP26 President Alok Sharma will attempt to use the summit to showcase global Britain, leading a planet saving mission that presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden both endorse unbelievable to see Xi Jinping in there as a warrior for the planet. China is by a mile the world's largest polluter. And pollution is an actual environmental problem, which you're not supposed to know and not supposed to talk about because the real problem is carbon dioxide. And in order to stop carbon dioxide, the source of life, we have to take away all your freedoms. China pollutes the planet. And so at these things pretending otherwise. The Green Industrial Revolution has become integral to Johnson's vision of post-Brexit Britain and to the Conservatives levelling up agenda. In our decarbonised future, the Prime Minister has said we will cook breakfast using hydrogen power before getting in our electric car. While British towns and regions T side, Port Talbot, Lowsyside and Mansfield will become synonymous with green jumps. Johnson's 10-point plan with including making the UK the Saudi Arabia of wind. Does that sound as chills down your spine? Any kind of Saudi Arabia. And a future ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars is intended to put the country on path to net zero by 2050, meaning the carbon emitted into the atmosphere is balanced by the carbon removed from it. But the government's plans have their Tory detractors who believe the demands of reaching net zero will prove politically toxic. Well, yes, because I showed you the figures, the billions and billions and billions that the taxpayers can't have to foot the bill with this. But while they're footing bill, their freedoms will be taken away. Does anyone else notice something really significant in this? Johnson's 10-point plan with pledges included making the UK the Saudi Arabia of wind and a future ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Does anyone see an issue here? This is the government controlling the market. This is the end of free market. Well, I guess I said, we will not be able to buy ourselves our houses either unless we have certain kinds of boilers in them and others sort of rubbish. So the government will be dictating what can be sold and bought in the car market and in the housing market. That is a severe and serious interruption with free markets. And that is a road heading rapidly, rapidly towards, guess what? You know what it is. Okay, let me have a few questions. By the way, I believe there were protests, anti-communism protests in Cuba in the last few days.  They don't want it. Okay, let's see. Yeah, James says, Gareth Southgate says leavers were driven by racism to get out of the EU. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's just unbelievable. I don't know whether they are just dim and unthinking or whether they are afraid not to say these things.  Graham says letterboxes matter. They do. They really do. We've lost a lot of them. Football tennis or sports now is to keep you distracted from what's really going on, why everybody is distracted by the football. They're killing your elderly relatives in elderly homes. Question for AMW, if invited would you go on GB News? Absolutely, 100%. I saw a tweet the other day, someone had tweeted GB News and said, will you invite Henry Waters on? And someone's replied, and this is where I think, do people not, do people not think? Someone replied saying, why would, where would they interview the leader of a party which is politically insignificant? I think, does it not enter the minds of people that the reason not just our party, all small parties are doing badly at the polls? Does it not remind, does it not enter the minds of people? That the reason small parties are doing badly at the ballot box is precisely because the press won't give us any airtime. Does it not enter? So you have this vicious circle as well, well we can't get airtime unless we do better at the polls. We can't do better at the polls unless we get airtime. And you might have seen the video I did recently, last week with Graham in Barnsley talking about the cozy relationship between the local politicians, Labour politicians and the local press. That thing is amplified on the national stage as well, stage being an appropriate word, to keep the status quo in place. Yes, I absolutely would go on, I'd love to. Who would she most enjoy having a debate with? Personally, I'd love to watch her have a head to head with George Galloway. I think I'd quite enjoy that as well. I would like to debate George Galloway actually. Someone else I'd love to debate is Pretty Patel. I'd love to put her on the spot with all this. I'd love to, you know, as the Prime Secretary is such a crucial, crucial role and she is such a, so expert at playing the game and looking tough and looking at politics of polling behaviour from the CPS. And you know very well that she's fully on board with all this stuff. Jeff says, bringing on two players who haven't touched the ball for the entire match was foolish, but I think Southgate did it for a woke statement, which backfired quite possibly, quite possibly. And again, that's just a mess, a mession, a mession of sport into politics. What books would I personally recommend as a top three reads, other than my own books, of course? Oh, gosh. Let me have a look. What's behind me? My favourite book, I think, is 1984. The Good Archipelago behind me as well, which is also a really good book. Muslim Mafia is an excellent book. I highly recommend that to everyone. Yeah, that's, what's the front of me now? It's a really good book about Tom Bauer, Dangerous Hero. I recommend that as well. That's a biography of Jeremy Corbyn and it just, it really shows you what kind of labour it was that elected Jeremy Corbyn. And that is still, we still have the same labour party now. Dangerous Hero by Tom Bauer is a very good book. Muslim Mafia is a very, very good book. The Good Archipelago shows you how evil communism is in a dramatic way. Off top of head, just having a look there. Those are the ones I would definitely recommend. I would definitely recommend those books. I'm going to go over a few. I'm reading one at the moment and it's on my, what's it, library on here. So let me just go in. Cleaner Library, let me just go in. Oh, I'm reading Among the Mosques at the moment by Ed Hussain, which is really, really good and definitely worth reading. The Hundred Years War, I think it's called. Let me just get it. I've got so many books on here. Which I'm also reading at the moment. I just need to find it so I can tell you exactly what it's called. Oh yeah, The Hundred Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury, China's secret strategy to replace America as the global superpower. Terrifying, terrifying book about how China is laughing at the world, laughing at it. Again, it's that deception, that's communist duplicity, that China is taking the world stage, pretending to be one thing. When we all absolutely know it is something completely different and we're all supposed to just accept this and pretend we don't know that it's different. It's the emperor, the emperor's new clothes. The emperor is not wearing any clothes, but we're not allowed to say so and China is not a beacon of cleaning up the planet, believe me, but it will pretend to be. China is not a good actor. It is not, it acts in bad faith with its disgusting business practices. Just to name, and there's a great book I read that badly made in China. That's a really good book. That told me a lot about China's business practices and this is written by a person who had had various business dealings with Chinese manufacturer. A lot of our work was swamped with it with Chinese products and they are really shoddily produced and their business practices are beyond appalling. No respect for contract, no respect for copyright, badly made in China. Excellent book. I highly recommend that one as well. Okay, where are we? Did you see the pride car bringing on the match ball? Thought pride was a lot. I didn't, John Bullock, doesn't surprise me. Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Sports are basically being used now to push political points and again, you watch the Olympics. I'm almost dreading it because I really do love the Olympics and I'm almost dreading it now.  Small businesses are being eliminated, only mega companies will.  Michael, in Germany critics of mass migration think that pretty Battelle's plans for new immigration laws in the UK would be great. What are your thoughts on that? I don't think that pretty Battelle is, I think she's performing, I think it's a performance. She intends to do nothing at all to stem the tide of immigration into this country and I know that for a very specific reason because she could have done it by now and what she is actually doing is, and Tory policy has from day one increased immigration into this country. While they pretend that their plans are to reduce it, it's a state show. It is a state show and for the Tories to pretend to be appalled at the CPS deciding not to prosecute which they're never going to do anyway, for this, what I showed you the video that the Home Office produced about how asylum claims are going to be organized in the future, they're going out to countries to bring people here so they don't even have to bother to make this journey anymore. This is just going to up the numbers. So I understand that the state show works, it's successful, people believe what they are fed by the mainstream media and this collusion between the mainstream media and mainstream politicians, they believe it. But I think that she has, they have, the Tories have no intention whatsoever of reducing immigration, I think they plan to increase it, I think they plan to increase it because they are under orders from globalist bodies and as they are with the green agenda and this is why Boris has so dramatically changed his views on this, they are under orders, mainstream politicians are under orders from globalist bodies in terms of immigration and climate change and they will do what they are told by these global bodies, they don't give a damn about us because they don't fear us and they don't fear us because smaller parties, principled parties, parties who actually want to work in the best interests of the country are so, it's so difficult for smaller parties and new parties to challenge the mainstream status quo because the press won't give them any air time, the government's, government and opposition know this and don't fear the people at all, they fear the big globalist bodies and they're doing what they're told so I don't believe for a minute that they're going to do anything to stand the tide about this. Amanda, what do you think is more dangerous, communism or Islam? It's a tricky one actually, they're both in many ways left-wing ideologies, massive state control, massive censorship, massive regulation, regulation of every minute detail of our daily lives so they're quite similar in many respects. Communism on the surface at least doesn't, I mean it does, it does kill and enslave people, of course it does. At least hide it, Islam doesn't hide that so I'm not sure which one of those is more dangerous, there are elements to Islam that are simply barbaric stoning of rape victims and things, I mean it's unbelievable. But I think that they are using each other as they have done in Islamic States and the example that the best example of course is Iran where they did help each other and then the Muslims killed the communists but I think they are helping each other to dismantle Western society, communists more so at the moment because Muslims can just sit back and wait in many regards. It's a difficult one I think, they're both in ideologies, they are in collusion together openly at the moment and I don't know what they think the end result is going to be, I really don't, we're not always, and I don't mean to be flippant but we're not always dealing with geniuses here, I don't know what they think the end result is going to be but they are certainly and quite successfully dismantling Western society. I guess the communists think they're going to rule over the rubble and the Islamists think they're going to rule over the rubble and when the rubble, if they're with rubble they will be fighting over it probably. I really don't know, I don't think they think these things through. With the change of new forms to live streams we're going to see and we're bringing interesting guests on to live streams for interview. I don't want to give too much away because I've also been told by this promotions guy to help surprise us for people and the conference that will be coming up in the autumn we'll be revealing a lot of new films that we're making and various different things. Perhaps that might happen but one of the things that is going to happen is that some of it I will still be here alive and I will still be taking questions but some of it will be pre-recorded and we will pick the plan is to take it a timely topic and make a round on my higher production video and to show this and then take questions on it. All of this, well the background isn't going to change except we're going to get rid of this and have it on screen instead. There will be camera and new lighting but the idea is to have some of it at least pre-recorded so that we can up production values and like I said I still will be here and I still will be answering questions but that is a possibility and something we'll be looking at as we go on. But we do want to get these to bigger audiences that means making them shorter and it also means opening the production biners and working on the detail of it throughout the week so my working day has gone a bit longer but we must do what we must do to and if we're going to hire this guy we've got to do what he advises us to do. He's got a long and very successful track record in promotions for big companies and various different things so we've got to do what he advises us to do with something and hiring him. So yeah big changes are coming to our output and I do think that it will improve things a great deal and help us reach more people. Any plans to do an interview with Alex Epstein? I don't know who that is probably I've probably got people rolling their eyes at me now. The globalists have built back better slog of what's our slogan. We were talking about this the other day actually and that's part of the branding that we this sort of review of our and we were talking about this. We are up against sheer evil. Maybe that should be it. That's something we're actually thinking of at the moment. If you have any particular slogans that you think would be good for us going forward let me know. It needs a good bit of thought though but we were talking about sort of the antidote what we are what we are facing is generally sheer evil and we need one we need slogans that absolutely reflect that. At the moment of freedom, justice and democracy those things are obviously really important and I like them but it's something we're thinking about and I think it has to be it has to reflect genuinely has to reflect the evil that we are fighting in our role in this world. We have to stand on this we have to we really have to. This is from Alan Lyle Taylor back centre forward and Nottingham Forest refused to get on one knee he was interviewed and stated he did not like the fascist terrorist group which was nothing for racism. Wow good for him good for him I bet he didn't get much press coverage I bet he wasn't invited on all the GMBs and the BBC breakfast and all the rest of it to discuss that but good for him really good for him. Are there any parties you would merge with final question? No I we've so much work has gone in to this party you know people you'll often hear people I'm starting my own party and for them if that's what they're I genuinely think people think this is a lot some people think this is easy so much work has gone into this there's so many loyal hard-working activists and members for us to just melt something else to my mind would be a betrayal of all the people who've worked so hard to build what we have and I genuinely don't trust other political leaders on our side not that I don't trust my people I'm not talking about people as individuals but I don't trust them to not go over it to a dark place or capitulate and toe the line for the press I know that I won't do either of those things I don't know that anyone else I can't say the same as I could hope but I don't know with myself I know that I won't capitulate and I won't go over into outright the you know you know I know I won't do either of those things so for those reasons no but we would welcome people and we do love people from every political walk of life in this party and we would welcome people if you agree with our manifesto our philosophy our outlook then you're very welcome to to join us okay that's it for this evening we're back next Monday um we'll be looking a little bit at because next Monday is freedom day um so we'll be looking a little bit as a first of our new format here we'll be looking a little bit at that and where the current state of freedom is in the UK in 2021 um final last thing I do want to say is uh Morrissey is uh in the papers again I just want to say hello to him um and he's in the papers for comparing society during the pandemic to slavery you've got to love just how absolutely he doesn't care he will just say what's on his mind he's he said the government is acting like Chinese empress and I had to just tell you about that because it's so out it is so out in what I'm talking about and the colonization of Western society okay I'll be back on Wednesday morning at 10 with the um local live stream and again I would I would encourage people who are intended to stand for the party to do things in your respective areas if you need any help with anything obviously always feel free to give us a shout take care of yourselves until uh then on the back next Monday and I am looking forward to the new format next Monday um Ed is on holiday this week and I'd completely forgotten about that when and I'm sorry Ed I'm hoping he's not watching because I really want him to get a a bit of a or an or um but we'll be back with the um the new format this I I'd said last week that he'd be on with me but it's not because he's on holiday and that's completely my fault and I'm sorry um we'll be back with the new format next week Saturday I'll be in Somerset this most beautiful part of the country and the following week I will be in two different areas Clacton and uh West Sussex West Sussex on Saturday Essex on Sunday if you're in those areas and you'd like to come along please do um until then I think that's it for this evening I think I've mentioned everything um take care of yourselves and I'll see you back here live next Monday at house with our new format look after yourselves until then take care thank you for watching if you agree with what you hear on four britain videos remember to like them share them and subscribe to our channels and why not follow us on social media as well the relevant links are below thank you


As the lights go out in Gaza in America they killed all the buffalo just to take away food from the natives, made mountains of their skulls and posed proudly in photos, like they posed proudly in front of burnt bodies after lynchings in the south. In Australia they stole the brown children and gave them to pale families and watched their ancient civilization disappear into the toxic fumes of industry like a sailboat in the mist. In Israel teenagers play with buttons that cause explosions on screens and look forward to the end of the Gaza operation so they can leave and go play better video games. In Gaza mothers clutch tattered pieces of flesh and clothing to their chests and scream names that will never again be answered and call out questions to the heavens that will also go unanswered and the ghost of the buffalo roam through the ruins looking for their heads while the people of Gaza comb through the rubble looking for their dead and the rest of us stare at screens and cry like babies and ask our own unanswered questions of heavens clouded by the fumes of industry vanishing stars above a dying world as the lights go out in Gaza one by one.


If you're not facing any challenges, what are you doing? Like you're definitely not growing. And best case scenario, you're doing the things that somebody else has already proven to work. Fine, but you can't expect any breakthrough results from that. It's only once you start questioning the status quo and how everybody has already done it. Even if there's a successful best practice, does it start opening the door to some incredible breakthrough results? Well, what I really appreciate about your story in your message is that many of us feel that if we reach a certain level of success, we can fortify ourselves from a lot of challenges that we face. And I think the pandemic has shown us, it doesn't matter what the zeros are in your bank account, we're all facing this unique challenge completely across the globe. And this idea that once I hit this, once I check this box, once I reach this level in my bank account, then it's gravy. Then it's just smooth sailing and coasting along. Life is an infinite amount of challenges.   No, I speak with a lot of entrepreneurship groups and early stage companies do a lot of mentoring, that kind of thing. And what I hear most often is exactly what you just said, AJ, which is I want freedom. And once I hit a million dollars or I have this relationship or this client, then I'm free. And I can tell you from knowing people that have made tens of billions of dollars, freedom doesn't come from a bank account. It doesn't come from a client. Freedom comes from being free of discomfort. And you can do that right now. In fact, it's the only real and sustainable freedom that there actually is. Let's unpack that a little further because that's pretty profound. I think it's easy to externalize what freedom looks like. It's very sexy. Like, oh, I want seven figures. And once there's seven figures in my bank account, I log into Capital One and I see a million dollars in there, then I can relax. But what you don't realize is that your life is going to change and you're going to change the point to get to that million dollars.  And you might look at that bank account when you have a million dollars and say, well, actually I need 10 now because I have this house and this business growth and this significant other and this many kids and I got to pay for college and I got to pay for this car and all these things. A million dollars isn't enough. And so you're on this treadmill, this rat race of looking for freedom but looking for it in the wrong place. Now, when you free yourself from the attachment to those things, thinking that freedom exists in the tangible world, you're all of a sudden playing a different game. You don't need a million dollars, 10 million dollars, a hundred million dollars, any dollars to give you the freedom to do the things that you want to do. By breaking that discomfort, by becoming free from the discomfort that is limiting you now, it's not the money, it's the discomfort, it's the self-doubt, it's the challenges, it's the fear of exposure. By breaking free of those things, you will get the results that you want. You'll hit that seven figures in your bank account and you will not be restricted or restrained if something happens, the housing market collapses again, there's inflation, there's a war in Europe, like all of these things are not going to stop you. You still have freedom, you have autonomy because it's not tied to physical things.


Welcome back folks. Tommy O'Brien joined by Basil Chapman this morning. We got the DOWA.106 S&P's flat right now at 29.93 NASDAQ in the negative by about eight points. And let's go over to our man Jack Gleeson as we do every Thursday 40 past the hour. We should call it where in the world is Jack Gleeson segment. Jack Gleeson, good morning. What's happening? Good morning guys. I am in Chicago here today at my office. So nothing exciting this time. I always say we wait for you to be back in Costa Rica.  I know fireworks are legal down there in Florida. They're not legal up here. They're not legal. Man, the world changes and it seems so normal. Yes, I have all my fingers. Thank goodness. July 4th was good, but everyone survived. I believe Basil does as well. So what do they just have? You guys, sparklers and so forth. They got the innocent ones in Florida.  Yeah, but we got them in Indiana. We got them in Wisconsin. I was actually up in Wisconsin for the fourth. Nice. So, you know, a couple mortars here and there. You know, just before we get in the market is crazy than in Florida, I believe. And I think we touched on last time, right? That it's something where you're almost signing that you're going to use them for a purpose of like hunting or ground removal on your, your, there's some loophole that they get into the ability to sell you the type of explosives for your, but nonetheless always be careful fireworks. So what are we looking at in the market today, Jackman? We got a lot going on in terms of. Oh yeah.  So with this type, I mean, you know, Powell's on the mic today. I am not looking to do, I mean, I'd probably want to play the short side here today. I'm just trying to look for like a decent trend goals coming nicely off the tie. Oil was the really the big mover yesterday. You had that inventory draw that was pretty steep. Sure. Nine plus million barrels. Yeah. Yeah. Nine plus million barrels. I'm looking at a 59 70 pullback in oil right now. I'd like to trade that 59 70 level and then I got a level at 60 11.   We'll see if the S&P can get down to yesterday's lows. I'm looking at 90 quarter and then 94 quarter for the S&P. But man, we're really having a tough time fully cracking that 3000 level 27,000 for the first time in history in the Dow here today. So that's a 27,000 hat over there. Not yet. I know we ordered it on Amazon. It's supposed to be here in two hours. Well, we'll get it seriously. No, not yet. I believe it. I mean, they deliver half the things I order in two hours on Amazon.  We do. And we're actually lucky in Tampa. I'm not sure about Boston up by Basil, but Tampa has a big hub. Okay, nice. So yeah, I'm sure. And but Tampa is a big hub as well. So we get a lot of early roll out in terms of one of the, you know, when they started doing same day delivery, Tampa was one of the first markets when they started expanding it because they have a big hub. So we got a lot. We get we get some good action in terms of what they put out. Interestingly enough, I saw a tweet from Bezos. It was either a tweet. Maybe it was on Instagram. One of his accounts, I follow him. And he was saying how he binge watched Stranger Things 3. We're jumping around. But that, of course, on Netflix. And I said, man, that's, that's interesting that, you know, he's basically out there saying, and then I started thinking about, well, if Jeff Bezos couldn't comment on anything that Amazon competed with, he probably couldn't talk about almost like anything in the world because they compete with almost everything, you know, in terms of Microsoft, Netflix, HBO, what could you compete with, you know, talk about. So he's, he's resigned to the fact that everybody says competition and he's not afraid of touting them when he still comes at it. I thought it was interesting because I don't think you'd ever see Reed Hastings from Netflix talking about binge watching an Amazon Prime show, right? Yeah, that's for sure.  And I think they are with that venture they're doing with Berkshire, right? So I'm sure they got plenty. Berkshire with JP Morgan and on that too. Yes, right. Thank you. All right. So what about Goldjack? We had some action in Gold and they're always looking, we ran up again last night. Right now, basically like my upside targets on this on this daily move. I mean, I don't have on this computer, I don't have my charts loaded code so I can't share my screen, but I have the gold chart up here. Go for it. Okay, cool. So the I'm looking for like the next run up, if we can get a breakout actually to head up to like 1465 is going to be my profit target. And then my major levels that are just below as general supports, you got the halfway back for the week. So below the week to the high of the week divided by two is 1408 1408 half. That could possibly come into play today. We're not far from those levels about four points. And then we have a couple of bigger levels. I'm watching 1407.3. And then 1396 is really the level I want to see us consistently stay above 1396. If we do get a couple, you know, if we start losing 1396 and build some momentum below that, I would probably pull play a breakdown of like 30 points at least. I really think it's important to hold that level moving forward. So that's really my crucial support level that 1396 marked it up. I have alerts set there. And then today I am going to be looking for a day trader on that 1408 half level, which like I said, that's the low of that's was that Tuesday, which was the low of the week to current highs 1408 half. But yeah, fantastic run yesterday, you know, reversing half of it. And if you look at an hourly chart that 1408 half that 50% for the week is really where we consolidated and then caught that second leg of the bid out. So it's like to line up my Fibonacci sequences with just general support and resistance levels that other traders might be looking at. And that's that 1408 half. Nice. And, and how about oil? Because we talked about oil quite a run yesterday, man, and continuing kind of that credit that run all the way. I mean, we're sitting almost at that highs mean it's a 6094, but we're sitting sitting 6042 right now. Yep. So, right now I'm looking at 6011. And then there was like what I call an extension sequence was this a really aggressive bid sequence. The current Fib draw I would look at it would be the actual high of Monday. So that's 5846 drawn to the high. And that 50% retracement brings us back to 5970. And that's 5970 being the most significant level that I'm going to be looking for in oil here today. Okay. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, it's amazing, the volatility we've gotten in oil in gold. And it makes sense, I guess, when you look at oil has its own deal in terms of just last night, right? We had Iran and British Navy in terms of a ship getting attacked. Pretty interesting that that stuff keeps coming to life. I saw Iran, I denied that they did that. I don't know. Yeah. And there's a lot of rhetoric out there in terms of not who to believe, but there's a lot, you know, it's uncertainty, I think, which is remarkable that it hasn't like another captain Phillips type movie with Tom Hanks as you getting ready, he's getting ready. That was a good one. Yeah, playing the role, playing the role. What do you guys got on your radar any anything specific any markets you guys are really liking commodity wise? I've been paid to I know, uh, corn's been on a big, big run. You know, I had asked you about really what I look at, which is the gold and the oil man, they move, they've moved so much recently to in terms of the volatility gold itself. That was a nice bounce. You start getting under. And I think I had, I had played with even you talk about the Fibonacci's Jack and I think I had pulled it up. I talked with it on Basil. I think one of the earlier shows, you know, just going from the run that it started in the late May, a 38% retracement is 1378. So this is kind of a healthy area. But if you start backing down to there, I might be a little bit worried. And that's a little bit longer timeframe, but you know, the run has just been. Well, Jack, we appreciate the update, man. As always, you have a great week, man. And we look forward to talking to you next Thursday. Take care, guys. Have a good one. Okay, man. Folks, Basil and I are going to be coming back in three minutes. Come on back and join us.


Hey, folks! If you've watched any of my previous episodes of Code Club here, you might detect a fair amount of editing goes on to kind of clean up the material, to make it flow a little bit more crisply, to cut out all those lags for how long it takes to run things in R. Well, what happens when I do that is I give a kind of inflated impression of how well I code, of how fast things move, right? So what I'd like to do in today's episode is to do a single cut. I am going to not edit anything in the middle of this video. So I'm a little afraid of how this will go. You'll just have to trust me that I haven't done this take like 20 times to try to get it right all the way through. I don't have that much time. Anyway, what I'm going to do is in today's episode of Code Club, I'm going to build off of this R script that I've been working on in recent episodes. If you want to get this script, as well as everything that's in my repository down below in the description, there's a link to a blog post for everything you need to get caught up and running. I'm going to go ahead and fire up a terminal here in visual studio code. I will launch myself into a conda environment. So I'll do conda, conda, activate, drought, all right, and I'll fire up R and let's go ahead and run these first couple of commands, I guess first 15 lines or so. This will give us a lat long PRCP data frame here, which has the latitude, longitude, the year, the mean precipitation. I see that it's being grouped by latitude and longitude, which is probably okay. So my goal for today is to go ahead and calculate the Z score statistic for each station. So the way I've kind of rounded the latitude and longitude is that I've rounded all those values to the nearest degree. So basically each weather station is within a diameter of about 60 to 70 miles, I think. And I have for each weather station then data in this case going back to the year 1958. And I'll assume it goes forward to the year 2022. So that's actually something I want to make sure is that I've got data for each of the weather stations that includes 2022, because I want to calculate a Z score statistic. The Z score statistic is the you need you need the mean, you need the standard deviation. So the statistic is the observation you're interested in. So 2022 minus the mean divided by the standard deviation. That will give you a value that is basically the number of standard deviations that you are outside of the mean. And so what I'm ultimately going to do is generate a rasterized excuse me, rasterized image of the world that shows in kind of red and blue colors like heat map images of the level of drought that each of these weather stations is experiencing across the globe. So I'm trying to think of how I want to do this. I guess maybe I should have thought of that before I started. But hey, this is real, right? So maybe what I will do is go ahead and make sure that I have a year 2022 for each of these latitudes and longitudes, right? And so maybe what I could do would be to pipe this into a filter. I feel like I need a filter, right? But you know, I think the easiest way that my mind can think about it would be to make a sub, a sub data frame or a separate data frame that has the 2022 data. I think ultimately I'll need that anyway. And so maybe I'll come back to this lat long PRCP. And I'll go ahead and do a dot groups equals drop to get rid of those grouping data. And then for the current year, I'll go ahead and do year equals equals 2022. This then, as we see, gives me my lat long and the year and the amount of precipitation for the past 30 days, I think it was 28 days, or yeah, 30 days. And again, these data were initially grabbed at the beginning of September. So this isn't like current data, but it's good enough because it takes a fair amount of time to download the data and process it all. So anyway, so I'll call this this year, right? And good. So that stores us a data frame called this year. I could probably go ahead and remove the year. So I'll do select minus the year. And so then if we look at this year, I see that I've got the lat long and the mean precipitation. That's all good. And so now we'll take the lat long PRCP. And I'll do an inner join on that, right? So I could do an inner join the inner join lat long PRCP and this year. And so I'm going to join by two different things. So I'll join by the latitude and the longitude latitude and longitude, right? And so then that should, what did I do wrong? I misspell it latitude. Oh, I forgot to put it in quotes, right? So that needs to be in quotes. And the linter doesn't like having it like spaces next to operators, like an equal sign. Okay, now we've joined things together. And so now we get latitude, longitude and the year. And so now, because we've got data for this year, latitudes and longitudes for this year, we're only getting back data for those weather stations. Those are latitude and longitude, where we have this year data. The other thing I'm noticing is that I've got mean PRCP dot x and mean PRCP dot y. That means that the mean precipitation was in both of the data frames, right? And so the dot x would be for the lat long PRCP. And the dot y is for this year, right? And so maybe I'll go ahead and rename those. So I'll do rename. And then I'll say, and I always forget which is which. And so maybe I'll do all years equals mean PRCP dot x. Let's see if that worked. Hey, it worked. What do you know? And then I'll add to this this year. This year with the underscore equals. And yeah, it'll be the mean PRCP dot y. Okay, and so now we've got this year and all years, we're in good shape. And so now what I need to get is for each latitude and longitude, I need to get the mean and the standard deviation. So I'll go ahead and then do a group by latitude and longitude, right? And then I'll do a what do I do? I'll do a mutate. Let's start there. And we'll do mean equals the mean on all years. And then SD being SD on all years. Right. And so here we now see that we've got the mean and the standard deviation as well as this year. I think something else that I'd like to have in here would be the number of rows, right? So maybe I'll go ahead and add an n column and do that with the n function. And so then this gives me that this weather station had 37 years worth of data. And so I need to think about like, what's the minimum number that I'd like to use. And so in the last episode, I generated a histogram and it was kind of bimodal. There are about 2000 weather stations that had over 100 years worth of data. So let's let's maybe start with requiring at least 20 years worth of data. So to do that, I'll then do filter year or not year n greater than or equal to 20. And I've been saying stations, I'm really looking at regions, because some regions, and that's the latitude, longitude combination contained multiple stations. So I'll do that. And then that gets me down to 313,000 rows. Didn't really lose much, right? So most weather stations, excuse me, most most regions have more than 20 years worth of data. So that's pretty cool. Actually, let's see what happens if we go up to 100. And so then we have 200,000 rows, right? And so that would be like 100 years. Yes, that makes sense. So 100 years for 200 or 2000 stations would get you close to 200,000. If we do 50, that'd be like 300,000, 296, 296, zeros are zero divided by 50. There'd be about 6000 or so. Let's let's go with 50. I'm happy with that. Okay. So at this point, then we have the mean, the standard deviation and the n, as well as this year's data to calculate our Z score, right? And so, again, what I want is, I want the Z score for this year. And so we'll go ahead and pipe this into another mutate. And I will then do, you know what, I don't need to do that. Because I think I can calculate my Z score right up here without actually calculating the mean and the standard deviation as separate columns. And if, yeah, that should work. So what we'll do will be Z score equals, what, we will do Z score equals, and it'll be this year, minus the mean of all years, right? And that needs to be in parentheses, because this will be the numerator divided by the SD of all years, right? And we'll go ahead and put a comma there. So let's see what this looks like. So again, we get a Z score of negative 0.644 for this weather station, right? So I want to double check that. And so I will go ahead and do a filter for n greater than equal to 50. And latitude equals equals minus 53. And longitude equals minus 71. And oh, I think I wanted, and I, yeah, no, actually, you know what, I don't need all that stuff, because I have this year being zero, right? And so the mean and the standard deviation. So if I had zero minus 3.05, put that in parentheses, divided by 4.73. Yeah, that I mean, that is what that is, right? So that makes sense. Maybe what I would also like to do would be to use the local weather of Ann Arbor, where I'm at. Again, that local region is going to be pulling multiple things together. So if I get the Ann Arbor weather station, it'll be close, but not not exact. So I'm going to go ahead and open up another bash strip. And again, if we look at our data directory, we've got this GHCND stations, I think I can do a grep on Ann Arbor, I think all of the text in these files was all caps. And then we'll do data forward slash GHCND stations, text. And so then that at least, yeah, I guess I don't need to look it up if I knew the latitude and longitude where I am, right? And so that should get me 42 and negative 84. Right. So if I do negative 84, or no, latitude is first, I think such to be 42 and negative 84 for Ann Arbor. And so that then shows me that this year, we've had 0.117 centimeters of precipitation for the previous 28 days. That was like the month of August, right? So I think that makes sense. And that then was a bit dry. So I think that will be good. Yeah, so that then gets us negative 1.8. And yeah, so that's almost two standard deviations drier than we would have expected normally, right? Okay, so I think that looks good. So let's clean this up a bit, right? So let's go ahead and remove our mean and our standard deviations. We've got our z score in our end, because again, we want to make sure that we have at least 50 years worth of data for all these, right? And so I think that's good. And so I'm wondering, do I want mutate? Or do I want summarize? And I think I actually want summarize, right? Because I only need the output, right? I need only need the single z score value, because you'll notice that all of these years have the same value, because we're using the data from this year, right? So now what I get is I get my latitude, longitude z score. And so I'm wondering why I've got all sorts of data here. And why I don't just have one value for that latitude, longitude. So again, that's the group by latitude, longitude, I should be getting out a data frame with 3400 rows, because I would have one for each region, right? And so then summarize z score gets this year, minus mean all years. And I think what's happening is that because this year is a long is a vector, right? That I'm getting one value for each value of this year. And of course, because this year, there's a value in this year for every year, that's the same. Yeah, that's why I'm getting a really long vector and getting basically out what I had before with the mutate. Does that make sense? I don't know. So I need to collapse this year down to a single value. And so there's probably a more efficient way to do this. But what I'm going to do is to say min on this year, because min of 1000 or 100 of the same value is going to be the same value. So now when I run this, yeah, so now I get 2889. Is that what I said up here? Well, here I've got 3400. Yeah, and so it's also filtering out those regions that had 50 or had fewer than 50, right? So now I've got Yeah, so now I've got 2889 regions, and there's e score and their n. That's cool. And I could then go ahead and ungroup this, right? So I'll then do dot groups equals drop. And there we are. Cool. So I think that then puts us in a good position to start thinking about plotting this data. And yeah, so let's see, what what did we do? So again, we created a data frame that contained the data for this year. And that then allowed us to do a join with our other data, the lat long PRCP, right, where we joined by the region. So the latitude and the longitude, we then renamed the years to make it a little bit more easy to work with, right? And then we grouped our data by latitude and longitude, we then summarized to get the z score where we use the value for this year, minus the mean of all years divided by the standard deviation of all years, that again gives us the z score, which is a metric which the number of standard deviations beyond the mean either drier or wetter than we would otherwise expect. And then we filtered everything out to keep those weather stations that had more than 50 observations. Okay, so I think that's pretty good. I think that's enough for today's episode. In the next episode, we will go ahead and make a plot of this. And I'm sure along the way I will maybe drop in little things if I made goofs. But hopefully I didn't. And hopefully again, you get a sense of kind of me talking out loud and me thinking through how I do this analysis. And you can see a little bit more of how much my fingers fumble around the keyboard, and making mistakes, and just little errors we saw like latitude and longitude not being in quotes. So I hope you found this helpful. Again, I don't want to leave the impression that I am perfect, and that my coding skills are perfect. Most of the bugs that you see in the videos are honest to goodness bugs, where I just incorporated things, right? I forgot quotes, or I misspelled things, or I forgot, you know, parentheses or something, right? So I want you to realize that that's normal. There is nothing wrong with you. If you're introducing typos, or if you're getting bugs, a huge part of learning a program is figuring out what error messages mean, and, you know, how to resolve them. We didn't have too many in this episode. But again, I hope this is helpful in kind of normalizing failure as part of getting to success. Thanks, and we'll see you next time for another episode of Code Club.