Good evening all. You're all very welcome. Thank you very much for joining me Monday evening live stream. Been a busy week and another busy week coming up. First thing I want to tell you about is this weekend in Manchester. I'll be speaking at a rally in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester from about one o'clock this weekend which is a rally for children to stop the abuse of children in all its various guises and there are many and one of them I'm going to talk about this evening. It's a it's a topic we've covered before but I want to I've had through the reason I'm going to have a look at it again this evening is that I'm working on a well I'm not working on that's I'm not I'm not going to give credit for this. I'm helping with a report forced adoption in the United Kingdom which I've been sent this week quite a substantial bit of work that I am making my way through. Ah Jamma has just said she's a speaker too. See you there. So making my way through this report I'm going to read a little bit of it to you this evening but what we want to do with this and not the author of this I'm not going to claim credit for what we want to do or what I want to help do with this is refine it to a easy to read summary and we want to get it to every member of the Houses of Parliament the Commons and the Lords. This is a hugely it's a shocking it's actually it's shocking it's shocking and we are the UK is almost unique in this regard. I will take you through the key parts of this report I would say if you can help us with this if you can help by donating for this it would really I'd really appreciate it but we want to get this to every member of the Houses of Parliament and then follow up with it and see why why why if they're not interested in this why aren't they interested anyway I'll take you through that in a few minutes a couple of bits of news we'll have a look at the latest on coronavirus as well a couple of bits of news I want to share with you and one of them is regarding the Batley and Spen parliamentary by-election this is a this is the seat that was held by Jo Cox until she was murdered in 2016 and following that in the it was won by Tracy Braben and she won that seat for Labour and she won it again in 2019 the last general election but with a much reduced majority it was down from 8,000 her majority was down from 8,961 to 3525 now the bit of news I want to show you is that Labour have selected Jo Cox's sister to stand in this parliamentary by-election and the parliamentary by-election had been triggered by the victory by Tracy Braben as the mayor of I knew she's a mayor of let me just get this make sure I get this right West Yorkshire's first regional mayor so Tracy Braben is now the regional mayor of West Yorkshire leaving her parliamentary seat up for a by-election Labour have selected Jo Cox's sister for this now they've apparently I'm reading various different bits and bobs they've apparently broken their own rules in selecting her for this seat her name is Kim Ledbetter she has not been a member of the Labour Party apparently until a couple of weeks ago breaking their own rules apparently what I read is that you have to be a member of the Labour Party for at least 12 months in order to stand for election that's not the case for her and what is there to say except what incredible incredible cynical exploitation by the Labour Party I think they are going to be in trouble with this I think it's going to backfire on them incredibly and they are going to pay by suspect the price of you losing yet another northern seat to the Tories just quickly have a quick look at the BBC's reporting on this so Jo Cox's sister has been chosen as the Labour candidate in the constituency the modded MP once represented Kim Ledbetter will contest a by-election for the Buckley and Span seat on a date yet to be confirmed during the selection meeting Ms Ledbetter told party member she was the candidate the Conservatives feared I'm a proud Yorkshire woman I've lived in Buckley and spent all my life I have a deep understanding of the area it's people and some of the challenges it faces I feel passionately about the strength there is in such a diverse constituency she has received the backing of the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham who spoke about the importance of having strong northern voices now significantly this is the seat also you'll be familiar with Buckley we covered it in some detail in a recent live stream this is the place where the school where the school teacher is still in hiding some months after his initial sin of using cartoons of Mohammed still in hiding I'm hearing reports today and these are opinion reports but still that the government has essentially turned its back on this school teacher we know that the unions turned their back on him nobody really wanted to come to his defense we had Muslims outside the school a horrible situation a horrible situation and we know the history of Mohammed cartoons we know how many people have been murdered over Mohammed cartoons we know the censorship we know the fear and this is inside this constituency the interesting thing will be and I can predict it very very easily I think I don't think I'm going to be wrong about this I think neither Labour nor Tory candidate will have anything to say about this issue they certainly won't be condemning the censorship and the threats of violence and the implicit and explicit threats of violence that surround this issue and they will show they will show that neither of the two big parties in this country are interested in defending freedom of speech neither of them have the courage to tackle these issues and you just know that that's going to be the case so be interested to watch that to see what happens in that battle and spend by election um and I'll keep it up I'll keep it I keep an eye I'll keep an eye on it right a couple of other bits of news something that jumped out at me today from ITV news was that the Home Secretary Priti Patel has unveiled plans for a fully digital border within five years she has pledged wholesale reform of the UK's broken her words immigration system as she unveiled plans for a fully digital border within five years well have a question my first question to Priti Patel is who's fault is it that the UK's border or immigration system is broken who's fault is that exactly well the Tories have been in government since 2010 11 years plenty of time plenty of time to fix this broken immigration system all they've done is make it even more broken and yet here we have more of this stuff from the Tories talking the talk anyone would think that they've been sitting on the fringes for the last 10 years unable to do anything about it desperate to make change but unable to do anything they've been in government all that time this is more Tory Tory Tory Tory this is what they do they say they never do so in a keynote speech on Monday Ms Patel vowed to deliver a system that works for the law abiding majority and against those who seek to abuse our hospitality and generous the spirit give me a break the people she watches coming in to dover every day are abusing our hospitality and generous spirits i did like she did do a photo op the other day did you see that um where she was along with the police arresting someone i mean it's absolutely the most cynical photo op soundbite politics and again as i say anyone would think that had no power all this time the Tories blessed them they're desperately trying to solve this immigration issue and they just can't do it they're in government i've been courageous she said she launched the us style electronic travel authorization rich which requires visitors to the uk to obtain an electronic permit before traveling she said this would make the border more secure with automatic checks allowing the government to count people in and count people out of the country provide it would provide a far clearer picture of who is here and whether they should be adding and when and we will act when they are not oh god ETAs will be required by anyone without a visa or immigration status although they will not be needed by irish citizens with ministers promising the system will be operational by the end of 2025 and the problem is the problem is that this this is just another way of processing legal movement in and out of the country it'll do nothing about the exploitation of asylum and this fake refugee crisis that we have it is yeah again again it's it's the Tories introducing things that they shouldn't be shouldn't need to introduce because they've already had that they already have the laws to deal with this stuff absolutely infuriating um and another one that caught my eye today is the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson not intended target of drive-by shooting the leader or one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter um this Sasha Johnson and she's she was infamous for a screaming match that she had with Tommy Robinson and Luke Reid um many of you will have seen that i'm sure she has been shot and is uh in a serious condition in hospital etc she is fighting for her life after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head but was not the intended target her friend has said Sasha Johnson both a BLM activist and senior member of the political party taking the initiative party was injured in the early hours of Sunday in south London the political group said the mother of two had received numerous death threats because of her activism however a friend of the activist said she believed the incident was more related to rival gangs okay let's have a look at coronavirus before i get in to um to get on to the topic at hand this evening forced adoption in the UK and once again if you can help us to get this report to every member of parliament please please do i'll read you some key parts of it in a minute but let's have a look at coronavirus and see where we are on our evening update shops still seeing almost 30 fewer customers well there'll be a reason for that and that's that all the joy and spontaneity has been taken out of just about everything in life i've never been a big fan of shopping but it's even worse now only absurd cues and nonsense and they just people don't want the hassle so shoppers are only returning to high streets and shopping centers gradually with footfall is still 28 percent lower than pre-pandemic levels more than a month after all non-essential retail opened up retail analyst springboard said there was only a modest week on week increase after restaurants and pubs were allowed to serve indoors on 17th of May but there was a clear boost to footfall in shopping destinations after five o'clock when people flock to eat out or meet for a drink i have to say you do the places are places are not not just not the way they used to be not as follows they used to be but there is i've definitely people out eating and drinking which is nice number two patients asked to wait three years for a dentist appointment some patients in england have been asked to wait for up to three years for a dental appointment as the NHS struggles with a backlog of work from the pandemic wow there'll be no uh reduction in the taxes we have to pay across health watch england says rising numbers of people are struggling to access NHS dentistry and complaints have risen by a fifth at the start of this year practices were closed from march to june and have since run at limited capacity some practices stopped seeing NHS patients but the government said work is underway to tackle the backlog number three mid-air wedding dodges india's covert rules questions coming in thank you um yeah don't forget to to send me questions india's aviation authority has launched an investigation after a couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests to dodge coronavirus restrictions video footage posted on social media appeared to show the couple and their guests packed into the hired jet okay number four half of appointments missed at glasgow vaccine hub as glasgow deals with one of the largest covid-19 outbreaks in scotland the bbc has landed about half of people with appointments at the city's mass vaccination centre at the weekend failed to turn up and movie fans flocking back to cinema i was one of them just last night um went to see taxi driver last night fantastic just amazing to be back in the cinema again cineworld the world's second biggest cinema chain has said it looks forward to a good recovery after more people than expected bought tickets on its reopening weekend um and i'll be back there again next weekend okay so i think about this doesn't seem to be much news on the front page about coronavirus today one thing i have seen over the last week or so is that the vaccines apparently do work on the indian variants um and the latest on let me just have a quick look at the latest on the indian variants there have been 5 641 cases in england 383 in scotland 62 in wales 15 in northern ireland um that's up from last week but still not massive not massive numbers uh and i to say i read you over the week that the vaccines do work on this okay forced adoption in the united kingdom a first thing i want to say is thank you to sharon not our sharon um the sharon the author of this report did you send this to me this week to have a read through have a look at and then we are going to uh come park make it as as compact as we can to get as many people as possible to read it it genuinely is shocking it really is shocking and you i it's i can think of little worse there must be little worse for parents than to have their children taken away from them by the state for no reason and the reasons given what they call here the crystal ball reason which is somehow may come to this child so we're going to take it somehow may come to all of us uh we don't we don't have a crystal ball do we it's always interesting to me as well how it's always white british children who are as almost always white children who are taken away from parents the poorest poor poor communities pure white communities are almost always at the receiving end of this um when there is if we're going to take children away on the premise that they may in some at some future time come to harm then surely if we have siblings of fgm victims or siblings of forced marriage victims that they would come under a should come under a much more um i should come under a microscope as well if not um instead so let's have a little read of some of the key parts of this report a forced adoption is the practice of removing children permanently from their parents and subsequent adoption of those children and this will be following intervention by the children services department of a local authority former british member of parliament john hemming is a long standing and vocal critic of the system and estimates that over a thousand of a thousand out of 1,360 adoptions carried out without parents consent in 2010 so in 2010 1,360 forced adoptions took place in this british this this member of parliament believes that around a thousand of those may have been undertaken wrongly the leading activist group aiming to bring change and give these families a voice is the forced adoption network uk they have supported many many families to ensure their family rights are not breached and provide a level of expert support to protect and keep families together with an alternative option of faster care so i went on to the forced adoption network to have a look at the the main points that they make so here are just six points from what they call what's the situation and under the heading of what's the situation they say councils are encouraged to take to take children from parents who have never committed a crime against children social workers recommend to family courts that parents care was unsatisfactory or negligent and we're considered by expert as experts by the judge and therefore more likely to believe than parents the family court judges nearly always rubber stamped the social workers conclusions and authorised removal of the children concerned the older ones to foster care babies to adoption this is they say punishment without crime councils were for the first time advised to take children at risk following crystal ball predictions of future harm this prediction by social workers and other quote unquote experts claiming that past behavior was sufficient indication of future risk of physical or emotional harm to justify removal of the children that's just to call that unjust and draconian is understatement of the century to to use past behavior and we're not even told what that past behavior would be but was was sufficient indication to remove children permanently from the parents I think is a scandalous injustice because parents are no longer allowed to be represented by unqualified friends applying for care orders only family court lawyers known as professional users it says they could do that and routinely they nearly always advise their clients not to fight social services the result was that only one in 400 care orders was refused family courts were declared private and therefore secret since parents whose children were taken lost the democratic right to protest publicly and were sent to prison if they revealed details of court proceed proceedings their free speech was denied now you might remember some time ago and I'll post this on my facebook page afterwards I did a wake up UK talk with the lady who wrote this report and Katie Jane who I believe will be speaking in Manchester on Saturday as well she had her child taken away and we spoke about this at some length and I will as I say posted on facebook but one of the things that repeatedly comes up is the secrecy of the hearings and the gagging orders placed on parents disalloying them from protesting against these decisions and this goes on to say with court approval children and care had their phones and laptops confiscated to isolate them from family and friends both they and their parents were gagged during contact visits unable to discuss the court case possibly coming home or anything any abuse happening in care if these rules were breached contact was stopped immediately so most of our children are now regularly given by the courts for adoption by strangers even when their parents are begging to keep them this applies especially to babies quote unquote snatched at birth because their mothers have undesirable partners or used to have undesirable partners or had childhood traumas or did not engage with professionals i.e social workers once babies are adopted mothers nearly always lose all contact for life never knowing if their children are alive or dead and this was the case with Katie Jane who i spoke to didn't know where her child was and you know this is people mothers who themselves have traumatic past who have been subjected to abuse who have a difficult past you know they start unheard of but nor is it a reason to assume that someone who's had a difficult past is automatically going to present a threat to their children that this seems to be the thinking so to go on with this report it gets it really does get shocking and i'd like really like to see it produced um for for public consumption it's not to say not all countries employ forced adoption practices the uk is in the minority forced adoption in large numbers make the uk almost unique in europe where such procedures are rare or in most eu countries non-existent the uk is the only place in the world where a steady stream of parents flee the country every year to avoid having their babies and young young children taken from them by the state for forced adoption social workers behaving like police take babies at birth from mothers not for anything they have done but for something someone with a crystal ball might think they might do in the future thousands of children each year are taken from parents by judges and social workers in secret family courts relatives and friends are routinely forbidden to enter the court accredited journalists can now attend but are forbidden to publish names of local authorities or parents and cannot publish any dialogue spoken in the court they rarely bother to come parents are jailed for contempt of court if they reveal details of family court proceedings or protest publicly identifying themselves free speech is suppressed as is the democratic right of peaceful protest family courts put gagging orders on difficult parents forbidding them discussing their cases with anyone except solicitors for 18 years after their babies have been taken they are also frequently forbidden by a court injunction under the threat of jail for putting any information about their children or themselves on facebook or online i have to say since i did that discussion on wake up uk and i didn't know about this beforehand i've had several people get in touch with me to tell me their stories these are people who have not connected to each other they don't know each other they come from various different parts of the country but since i made that video they have been contacting me with similar stories there's got to be some truth to all of this and that is what i think we should be finding out the report says a semi-official report exposed one of the margillus corners of our child protection system a study by professor jane ireland a forensic psychologist for the family justice council examined 126 psychological reports trawled at random from family for court documents now these psychological reports will be ones relied upon to remove children it was found that two-thirds of them were poor or very poor in quality 20% of their authors have no proper qualifications and no fewer than 90% of the authors were not practicing psychologists but appear appear to end their living wholly or partly from writing reports for social workers already one psychologist whose company was nearly half a million made nearly half a million pounds a year from such reports is under investigation by the general medical council these highly paid cracks alleged that nearly every parent they see has a personality disorder as alleged by the social workers concerned parents in the process of losing their children are obviously showing signs of distress during the process this is used against them law-abiding but sometimes imperfect parents are powerless to deny accusations of future risk by these so-called experts and then ought to then prevent their children being forced to be adopted by strangers to give it an idea of numbers this is cases at numbers of cases new cases started in the family courts from April to June 2020 56,867 so we're not talking about a small number here not suggesting all of those but these are cases started in the family courts according to this report what needs to change these are the recommendations that this report is making and again genuinely have had so many people write to me since I did that wake up UK stream on this with horror stories absolute horror stories on losing their children on how social workers behave towards them how they are basically helpless and they can't speak out about these things because they're under gag and orders it really is quite shocking and why is this why would this be happening in such large numbers who is who gains from doing this and as this report says it's always wise to follow the money and social workers or social services departments will often have targets to meet and targets of people numbers of children to put into care the industry is according to this a big moneymaker so let me read what it says here social workers will tell you that taking a baby at birth from a sane low abiding mother and giving it away to strangers is not a punishment as its child protection no mother is treated this way would agree so James Mumby when he was president of the family courts described the taking of a baby at birth from its mother as the worst possible thing that could happen to a mother there was widespread condemnation at Trump separating immigrant children from their families but in the UK away from the public gay social workers escorted by the police take terrified children from their mothers every day what drives social workers to prioritize taking children on such spurious grounds the practice it says follows the money half of the country's entire public spending on children going in is going into 73,000 children in care but this does but this is a lady Louise tickle which they're quoting 80% of children's homes and 40% of foster care facilitators have been privatized thus millions are spent on feeding an increasingly privatized and growing child protection industry over 2000 pounds per week for each child in institutional care about 450 for foster care basically it's about money and this goes into a long long detail about about how much money is spent targets that are set private companies running these services and making a lot of money out of it and essentially yes follow follow the money so let me just go back to what I started to look at which is what needs to change and these are the recommendations of this report it says number one no children should be taken into state care by social workers via family courts for risk of future harm social workers and judges predict the future based on past records and remove children based purely on future guesswork social workers should not be allowed to remove babies and young children on the pre-test text that there are risks of future emotional abuse considering the link between newborn baby and mother the snatching of babies at birth from saying a lot abiding mothers is callous and cruel two family courts require to employ criminal court standards of proof unless innocent unless guilty beyond reasonable doubt before branding parents as child abusers I think it's perfectly reasonable proposal we need a simple change and the law it says to stop children being taken from parents when no crime against them no no crime against them against the children by the parents has been committed and allegations of such crimes have been dismissed a policeman will arrest you for committing a crime but never because he or she thinks you might commit a crime next give it time family court should be replaced by criminal courts as it used to be operating to criminal standards of proof family court judges in secret courts not open to the public frequently brand parents as abusers or potential abusers instead of using the civil standard of proof which is a balance of probabilities instead of the criminal standard which is beyond reasonable doubt family court should either be replaced by criminal court at the very least be required to employ criminal standards of proof I would agree with that I think it's a really reasonable proposal free speech should be restored to parents allowing them the democratic right to protest publicly in the media and elsewhere revealing names when their children are taken free speech does not incite violence or endanger the security of the state libel and slander laws protect us sufficiently against these but well I'm ideally parents and children should be allowed to discuss their cases with the media or whoever they choose we should stop legally gagging parents involved with the family courts if parents protest online or in public they will currently be risk big jail for breaching the privacy of their babies I'm not I'm not sure I'm I think there might be a typo there however let's go on to the next one social workers should be there to support families are never allowed to appear against them in court now this is interesting as well we mentioned the cost of keeping children in care either in institutional care or in foster care why one of the messages throughout this report is very simply that that that money would be much better spent in supporting troubled families with the aim of keeping them together and in my day in family law that used to be I don't know whether that's change it's clearly the culture has radically changed because it used to be that the a priority and an aspiration was to keep families together it doesn't seem to be the case anymore but there is the argument and the message in a large part of this report is if we're going to pay out all this money shouldn't we be paying it to support families to try and keep them together rather than pulling them apart and destroying lives so next point social workers should be there to support families are never allowed to appear against them in court police should deal with all cases of cruelty or neglect we must stop social workers acting like police and leave crime detection to the police well it's interesting because to my mind the police are now behaving like social workers and if this report is accurate then it seems that the social workers are now acting like the police and the police are now acting like social workers I think we should just get back to our roles and yes I would love to see police detecting real crime I won't hold my breath though next one forced adoption should be banned all adoptions must be genuinely voluntary and at the very least indirect contact by phone or email between parents and children should be freely allowed after adoption at present children's names birth certificates and locations have changed so that all contact with birth parents is prevented until adopted children are at least 80 false birth certificates should never be issued well I would agree with that but I think that point is probably up for debate I do think I mean I do think there are parents who there's none of this is black and white so there will be parents who do pose a threat to children and I think in those cases the child is if adopted by a decent family and has a chance to have a decent life with a new family I think there's an argument this one is a debatable in fact I'd love to hear a debate on this actual point about whether or not forced adoption should be outright banned and what the contact should be between parents and children after adoption so really interesting debate all parents at next point all parents appearing in family court should be encouraged to speak in person and to call their children relatives friends and other professionals as witnesses I think that's perfectly reasonable social workers and their eyes pretend to have authority and then give bluffed give then bluff intimidated parents into following their orders in the UK only police and judges have general authority social workers backed by the family courts continually reject grandparents as alternative carers for trivial reasons such as believing in the parents innocence makes them a future risk okay I see what okay I see what this means now let me just try to cover that so if the grandparents believe the parents so their own children don't pose a risk to the children then the social workers for what I'm reading here will consider the grandparents a risk for not considering the parents a risk Robert Hall parents who have next point parents who have not been convicted of any series of fans against children should never be forbidden contact with their children by phone text or email courts dare to brand a parent as a child abuser because a judge believes it to be more likely than not and that's in quote marks instead of beyond reasonable doubt again that to me is perfect I think you know if we are if we have the standard of reasonable doubt and beyond reasonable doubt and criminal criminal law and we do and we should and the reason that we have such a high standard in criminal law is because the penalty is so severe if you are going to take someone's freedoms away if you are going to take a person out of their life lock them in an institution they will likely lose their job their harm they're likely to lose just about everything as well as their liberty and spend potentially years locked in a cage if you are going to impose that kind of punishment on someone you better be sure they're guilty and that's the reason that the standard of proof of in criminal law is so high beyond reasonable doubt I would argue that having your child taken away permanently is a severe enough consequence for us to apply the same standard of proof when final point that was actually an ultimate point when social workers and guardians assistant court that children do not wish to see one of both parents of parents should the parents should be allowed to at least one supervisor's contact at which the attitude of the children can verify the desire to see or not see such parents okay so basically put it to the test and finally in family court proceedings parents should have the right to call their children over the age of 10 as witnesses and should also be allowed to call their own experts to testify as to their mental state whenever they are accused of suffering from mental health problems it seems staggering to me as this report implies that that isn't the case that people are not able to bring their own experts in to dispute the the allegation the notion the implication that they are not mentally fit to care for children this is a really fascinating piece of work it's I've only really just sat down to start reading it some work needs to be done on it but again I have had and it's not a subject that I'm an expert on in any by any means but I have had since I did that you wake up your case dream lots of people contact me from various different parts of the country giving similar stories there's truth to it is is my view there's certainly got to be truth to it um because these people are not making you know they're not on making up the same stories um I will keep you informed about this but if you can help us to fund the costs of getting this to everybody in the house of the parliament we'd really appreciate it okay let me get on to some questions time has flown by again um what you take on Lee Williams the guy from the UK living in New Zealand who dared to make youtube videos not approved by the establishment in New Zealand where he's been suspended from his job um that's from Paul I'm not actually familiar with this particular individual though I am familiar with people in the UK um and I mentioned this in where I was in rural last week a supporter of ours who's lost her job and I'm going to help her to challenge this as best I can but much like the teacher in Batley that I mentioned at the beginning the unions don't want to know the reasons the unions don't want to know is because she is quote unquote anti-islam now it's absolutely incredible and extraordinary to me that it seems we are in a a country where being anti-islam means you don't you can't have a job how did we get here why are we not allowed to be anti-islam why are we not allowed to dislike Islam so this is happening across the board I was speaking to a friend and supporter the other evening at a get-together we had up here in the northeast and essentially the police are on a regular basis summoning his son um and this is not the only the only instance he's being summoned on a regular basis by the police to explain his opinions and whether or not his opinions have changed and each time it's have your opinions changed yet you know I kid you not this is what's happening in the UK the police are regularly questioning people about their opinions and whether or not their opinions have changed I also mentioned uh in the world that's a about a child a child in school who'd made a joke about a barefooted child uh something about we may as well be in Africa or something with them but this kid has been referred to prevent and will be tarnished with racists probably for the rest of us I mean this is not this came out of nowhere it's happened overnight and it certainly feels like that I I mean I have my own views on where we're going with this we're walking into a totalitarian state we're there when the police are summoning you to explain your opinions when you can be referred to an anti-extremism body for a joke a harmless as a child a child with a harmless joke can have their lives tarnished and this will follow any child who makes this joke a similar joke this will follow them probably for the rest of their lives they will be tarnished a racist and they will struggle for life they will be we have continued continued instances of people required by the state to explain their opinions I remember Damian Ryan the teacher that I helped in a tribunal just before lockdown and he was they wanted to give him an imam they wanted him to hook up with an imam so that the imam could explain to him the realities about the peaceful religion the usual so I mean this is absolutely incredible again he was asked by the police to explain his opinions to justify his opinions and when those opinions weren't what the police wanted them to be he was told that he needed to speak to an imam to correct his views about Islam it's it's hard it's really hard to put in towards how alarming this is and it is truly truly alarming this is not a free country we are not a free because the UK is not a free country and I don't think there are many western countries now that can call themselves free countries and by the sounds of this is a sound not familiar with this particular case and we have the same situation occurring in New Zealand we have it in Australia we have it in America we have it in Canada we have it all over Europe people are not permitted to object to government policies and those government policies are open border immigration and that open border immigration is bringing various different cultures and religions to western shores and into western countries we have these massive clashes cultural and values clashes which are causing immense harm to a lot of people we are not allowed to talk about those because criticism of that or even pointing out that is an impediment to the globalist aim of open borders this is totalitarianism and New Zealand clearly is going down exactly the same road Stu what's your take on the Belarusian journalist arrested after a military jet was used to force it to land um that politics and that sort of that side of the world is always so murky I actually just read this I was reading this article just before I came on I did a catch up with the news the latest news just before I start this so just to explain to everyone what this is a flight was due to it was on its way to Lithuania from Athens and was rerouted to Minsk and a journalist that was on board Roman Potasovic was arrested um this was a Ryanair flight Belarus says the flight to Vilnius was diverted because of a bomb threat from Palestinian militant group Hamas UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab caused the flight diversion a reckless and dangerous breach of international law France says flights by Belarusian carrier Belavia could be banned from EU airspace Russia calls western reaction shocking and hypocritical like I say often very oftentimes politics in that side of the world is so so murky that you never quite know what's going on um so in a nutshell we've had a flight diverted a journalist arrested the authorities there say they rerouted it because there was a bomb threat uh apparently by Hamas and breaking news on this is that in the last few moments a video has emerged in which opposition journalist this journalist is a staunch opponent of the government there uh in the last few moments a video has emerged in which opposition journalist Roman Potasovic apparently confesses to crimes he has been charged with by the Belarusian state in the video Potasovic says he's being treated well in jail and says reports of heart problems are false however as we reported earlier his former editor has said that according to his mother Roman is in hospital in critical condition Potasovic is being held in a detention center in Minsk according to Belarus's interior ministry an ardent opponent of Belarus's president Potasovic has was put on the country's list of individuals involved in terrorist activity for his role in mass protests last year the charge of causing mass unrest can be punished for up to 15 years in jail you know um the video has been shared on twitter apparently this so there's a video of this journalist who's only 26 years old saying that he is um being treated well uh and has and confessing to crimes apparent crimes what does this tell me it's about like I said it's more key over there it really is but what they the shadow the shadow of communism takes long to lift it really does and we are becoming more the west is becoming more like this part of the world um every day actually we have actually you know it's not dissimilar to what i've just been talking about people losing their jobs people being branded and unpersoned and deprived of a livelihood because of their opinions and because of protests against government policy it's not dissimilar to this i mean i'd be a little bit more extreme over there now i think it's going to get similar here um but the shadow of communism is a long one and it it doesn't disappear overnight so just let me read on a little bit more of this Belarus's longtime president Alexander Lukashenko is a central character in this rapidly escalating incident of international concern on Sunday state media and Belarus said President Lukashenko had personally given the order to divert the Ryanair flight to Minsk since winning a disputed presidential election last August Lukashenko 66 who has ruled the country since 1994 has cracked down on dissenting voices a former soviet state farm director Lukashenko was first elected president in 1994 a 1996 referendum gave him greatly increased powers at the expense of parliament but the latest his latest attempt at prolonging his role was met with mass street protests in august 2020 demanding he stepped down after an election that the opposition said was rigged over the years several opposition politicians who might have provided leadership have disappeared or been imprisoned insulting the president the president even ingest carries a prison sentence for his authoritarian style of rule Lukashenko is often referred to as Europe's last dictator again you know we it's the west may stand in judgment of all this but we are living in in a so in so-called democracies where we have hate speech laws we have political political policing we have people as i just mentioned losing their jobs losing their livelihoods for their political opinions the unions which are supposed to represent employees are not representing employees based upon their political opinions even a misjudgment and this is the bat i'm going back to the batley schoon here that was just a misjudgment this guy was not being islamophobic or anything of the kind it was just a misjudgment and a naive misjudgment in my guess and he's paid a heavy price and i don't think he's ever gone to get his life back um so we can stand in judgment of these countries all we like um and why we're not quite there yet we're also not beacons of liberty anymore in the west either and it's because of the kind of ideologues it's communist ideologues who are pushing the anti-freedom anti-democracy narrative in the west as well so yes the shadow of communism is a long one um and i would dispute actually who won the cold war at all i do really want to write a book about who won the cold war um if i maybe if there's a few hours added on to the day okay joe how do you feel about social media banning all anti-vaxxites and information even if it's provable again you know it's a similar thing joe um this is not a free society a free society is one with open debate and discussion and we have not had open debate and discussion about coronavirus or about vaccinations now there's when people are censored we need to know why i always want to know what someone has to say if that someone has been censored by the powerful and social media big social media youtube facebook twitter these are incredibly powerful organizations and when they silence someone when the powerful silence find out why find out what most people have to say but you have to understand we all have to understand that a free and democratic society is built upon the primary primary character characteristic of open and free debate we must everyone must be heard we must have a debate everyone should be able to give their opinions everyone should be able to offer up what evidence they have and then we will come to every we will come to our own conclusions free enough that's democracy that's what made the western world once once great the the death of the erosion of that open debate is what is dragging western the western world and western democracies down we are losing that open debate we are losing our democracies and we're looking more and more like the bellaroses of the world every single day it is um um it's tragic actually to see the loss of free and open debate in the west um i'm very saddening tragic and probably the primary indicator that we are no longer a democracy um we must you know you who who who gains from silencing critical voices of vaccination well big pharma companies gain from it um where are they putting their money well bill gates was putting his money puts a lot of his money into media so again much like with the social services here follow the money my strong suspicion is that big pharmaceutical companies are paying a lot of money to have these voices silenced and and that's what's happening they gain from it they gain from any critical voices being silent this is not it's tragic it's tragic it's it's the death knell of our democracy i do believe of course we can get it back um and we'll get it back but that's what it is uh this is from it's that mitch and they removed two children from me and my partner um um we split up i met someone else she felt pregnant and they said i could not live with them i've never been arrested i mean it's just obviously this is my minute minute amount of detail in this but what i'm getting time and time and time again from people is i've never even been arrested i've never i've never been violent i've never you know i what's going on and the treatment of people by social services is similar across the country from what i can hear um these people are breaking up families this is no minor matter they are breaking up families permanently they ought to be doing their best to keep them together in my view um obviously there are cases genuine cases where parents shouldn't be they do pose a threat to children but i fundamentally from this report i think at the very least we should be applying the criminal standard of proof of beyond reasonable doubt before taking children away from parents and the idea that a mother should have her baby taken away um in those early days is heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking sometimes honestly sometimes i just don't recognize i don't recognize this country okay um we have run out of time last thing oh join me this week this wednesday morning 10 o'clock i'm going to do a facebook livestream and you may remember that i here in the are the local election that i stood in just recently the day before the election a group calling itself northeast against racism put out a leaflet about me in the area that i was standing in i am going to respond to that i'm going to put out my own leaflet in response um i'm also going to go through this leaflet in detail uh and talk a little bit about northeast against racism and against the people about the people who are behind these campaigns against people like myself um i would say to the but i think it was the board of deputies of british jews this week on twitter condemned tommy robinson um as far right he turned up to a pro israel rally and they condemned it and called him far right and they would never accept his bigoted views and they you know it just i would just say to that organization you are being fed lies and nonsense from the same extreme left that is standing with the so-called pro-palestinian protesters and when you know you know what those those protesters are all about you know what they're all about it's the same people it's the same left wing that is poisoning you against people like me and against tommy robinson and others and they're standing in solidarity with the jihad the hamas jihad against israel and against jew so i'd be very you know you need to open your eyes a little bit more to this situation and not trust the left wing and their character assassinations quite so easily as you do um saturday manchester one o'clock piccadilly gardens manchester please do be there what else have i got coming oh yes the thoughts tonight we're going to have i'm going to have a chat with mike speakman about some of the other aspects of the queen's speech particularly some of the matters related to post brexit uh economic issues and beyond so we have a much much um much more detailed discussion with mike thursday night on the queen's speech okay that's it for this evening thank you all very much for joining me if you can help us get this report to every member of the heads of the parliament please please do i will keep you updated on its progress and i want to thank sharon again for doing this incredible work it's it's an issue that has been brought home to me i i wasn't aware of the harrowing nature of this until i spoke with sharon and with katie j and i'm looking forward to seeing both of them on saturday in manchester um and i hope to see as many of you there as possible okay i said everyone thanks very much for watching see you on don't forget to check out my uh facebook stream on wednesday morning if you can't see it live at 10 o'clock do watch the recording um because i'll have a few things to say about these so-called anti-racism groups oh and just as a as another side of going to my first meeting um but a committee meeting tomorrow so i'll have a few announcements to make party wise after that um and some later campaigns so we're back we're back really really foot on the accelerator now we really are working very very hard and we've got a full our first face-to-face full committee meeting tomorrow and we'll have a few announcements and plans for the party in the coming year after tomorrow's meeting okay all right that really is it thanks very much everyone take care and i shall um i shall see you soon and i'll see as many of you as possible in manchester thanks very much take care bye 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 channel and why not follow us on social media as well the relevant links are below thank you


The top nine print-on-demand sites to make money. Part one of two. Now this is a two-part series so make sure after you watch this video you go on to part two. So print-on-demand, pretty cool stuff guys. There's so many choices now. There's Print-a-Full, there's Redbubble, Amazon, there's a whole bunch more of these sites now where you can do print-on-demand. You don't have to buy any inventory, you don't have to build anything, you don't have to have warehouses, nothing.  So that's what this video is all about. If that's what interests you, you're going to want to stick to the very end. You're going to want to watch video two because this is going to help you out tremendously and we're starting right now. Okay, if you're wondering if you can make money, absolutely you can make money. You do need to have a strong niche, something that people are really interested about. And I want to go through a few of the steps here. But what we want to do is we want to analyze these companies that are going to provide these services to you because some may be better than others depending on what your needs are. So the first thing I want to ask is what website offers the best service? Okay, service is really important because when your customer places an order, we want to get it to them as quickly as possible and at the highest quality we possibly can. The next thing we're going to want to ask is which company won't break the bank? I mean which one's going to save you a little bit of money? I mean we want a high quality but we also want profitability. So that's another good question to ask. Do these companies drag their feet when shipping the products? Okay, so shipping is super important as you know that the world has been kind of trained by Amazon to expect their stuff like within an hour of ordering it. Now you're not going to be able to do that but we want to get it on as short an end as possible. The next thing is where do the products ship from? Now some of these sites have multiple locations they ship from which is very very helpful in getting your product to the customer that much faster. And are they reputable or will they make a run for it with my cash? Is it the site that's going to be gone tomorrow because that's kind of scary too? And can I integrate with other websites and platforms? Now if you're a little bit confused about all this you won't be in just a minute let's check it all out. Okay, so here's the first one we're going to come to. It's called Redbubble and you can see it there on the screen right now. Redbubble is really a very well known printing website option. If you want your business really to take off this site can really help you do it guys. Redbubble provides an avenue to get customers to have the products printed and then have them delivered in no time flat. They're really fast about this. Now some of the things you can do on Redbubble are notebooks, postcards, scarves, shirts, hoodies, stickers. With a really huge following in tons of products Redbubble draws a following of both creators and customers. Now some of the things and some of the features they have are really quite amazing. Redbubble will provide you with the following features. Ships, most products worldwide period, okay? So they have fulfillment centers in the USA, Australia, Canada, Europe, UK, Germany and the Netherlands. They're really easy to use platform. The product options are just incredible. There's so many different things there. Shipping costs based on the shipping method and locations. Responsive customer support by email, live chat, Twitter and more. Direct bank deposits and PayPal payments options and integration with other website platforms is not available. So they've got a lot of good things going for them. If you want integration that's not your website, right? That's not the one you want to go for. The cool thing I like about Redbubble is they will actually let you set your profit margin. So you can set how much you want to sell it for which is going to decidedly, you know, increase or decrease how much profit you make. Now the other cool thing about Redbubble is that they've made deals with shipping and printing companies around the world so they can ship it out of the location that's going to be closest to where your customer is. The next one up, Printify. I like Printify. It's a good one. Printify really makes it possible for an e-commerce business to sell their products on their own site. So if that's what you're looking for, this is a good site to do it. You don't have to go through other online market places. The company actually started up in 2015 and it's really been making it easy as you can for online sellers and site owners. With Printify, online businesses have a surefire way to sell their artesian creations, but have Printify and third-party manufacturers really do all the work for them, their printing, shipping and all that other stuff. Online businesses no longer have to face the problem of building their brand and dealing with rapidly growing fulfillment requests. Some of the amazing and really determined vendors who Printify works with include artists, designers and other business bosses. So what products do they have? They have a whole bunch of different products. You can do accessories. You can do mugs, t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies and other personalized products. And by using this POD platform, businesses can focus on their expertise on building up their ever-growing brand and selling their highly coveted products while third-party manufacturers put the items together and ship them. Here's some of the things they offer to you. There's hundreds of products, competitive item pricing, printing partners in over 90 locations, including the United States, I like that, United Kingdom, Australia, China and Germany, automatic syncing with your online shop. And they also integrate with WooCommerce and Etsy. So if you're doing that, it makes it a whole lot simpler. The next one is one of the big guys, okay? It's Merch by Amazon. Amazon is now in the market of doing this too. They actually started their services in 2015. They've been focusing on shirts and clothes, but they're actually expanding a lot now too. Some of the items they have are going to be everything from, you know, short and long sleeve shirts, sweatshirts, pop sockets, service by invitation only though guys, okay? Not everybody can do this. Access to millions of customers. You're going to have limited products compared to other POD sites. There really is no integration options available because they want to keep their customer on their site. That's the way Amazon is. They want to own the customer basically. If you're looking for a large audience though, opportunities and way to sell your t-shirts, other similar products, Merch by Amazon is a good option. Next one up is going to be Zazzle, okay? There's Zazzle on the screen right there. If you're looking for really creative stuff that you can sell on your own site, you know, Zazzle is a good way to go. They have everything from design cards, invitation, clothing, home decor, accessories, electronic device, add-ons and more.  Now, they have a lot of benefits for choosing Zazzle. Let's list a few of them here. They've got a lot of products that you can put your artwork on. They've got impressive traffic on the site. You get to choose how much you make on your sales. I like that a lot. It offers helpful guidance along the way and it takes care of manufacturing printing and shipping duties too. So, if you want a really good site, I would recommend Zazzle. Okay, let's look on the next one. The next one is going to be Printful. Now Printful, obviously, you can sell and custom design your products. They offer the shipping, printing, fulfillment, everything. You can use one-of-a-kind designs of your own personal purposes or you can hook up and use it with your own shop. When you use the site, you'll gain access to helpful video tutorials and how it works and other excellent resources. So, what do they do? What do they print? Well, they got mugs, they got posters, backpacks, blankets, jewelry, and stickers. Now, best of all, this is the part I like, guys, if you want to sell from your own site, they integrate with a lot of platforms. Okay, they integrate with Shopify, with WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Ecuador, I'll put them all on the screen here, BigCommerce, PrestaShop, Weebly, Big Cartel, Vagento, Gumroad, ShipStation, and LaunchCart. You can also use Printful on different marketplaces. You can use it on Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Wish, Store Envy, and your personal shopping website. So, there's a lot of advantages there. Now, they have locations and let me check them here in the following areas for fulfillment. They've got Los Angeles, California, Tijuana, Mexico, Charlotte, North Carolina, Riga, Latvia, and Barcelona, Spain is coming soon. So, those are the ones they have available right now. Now, Printful is free to sign up, doesn't cost you anything, so you don't have to worry about that. Next, what we got is Guten. Guten, okay? Guten caters to those who can't handle, you know, a lot of orders coming in, they need help handling customizable product creation, shipping, and all the added duties that go along with it. When you use Guten, your store operations are really a whole lot easier. They make it really easy to be creative. Now, some of the products that they have are travel bags, clothing, dog beds, umbrellas, fleece blankets, frame prints. They don't charge any set up or monthly fees, which is really nice. That saves you a lot of money. They only charge for the products that are made and shipped. Now, if you're also looking for a site that's going to integrate, they're good there too. They do Shopify. They do a Guten API, if you want to do that, Etsy, Amazon, customer order form. They will actually work with all those. Next one up I want to tell you about is Teespring. I like Teespring a lot too. That's one of my favorites. Now, Teespring initially started off doing t-shirts, but they branched out into other products. One of the cool things about Teespring is it's really an easy to use design feature that beginner, you know, artists can use. Okay, I can use it. You can use it. What are some of the products that they sell? They sell mugs, accessories, tote bags, home decor, and socks. It is actually free to use. You can set your own profit just like some of the other ones. All you got to do is pay for the product when you actually ship it out and pocket the rest of the money that you've collected. They do have integrations, but it's very limited. It's Boosted Network, YouTube Merch Shelf, and Google Shopping is all they do. So, if you're going to use that site, remember those are the only ones that they integrate with. The last one I want to tell you about on this particular video is Society Six. I'll put that up on the screen right now. They actually are more designed around home decor and items to decorate your house. Okay, so if you're a creator in that area, Society Six is really good for you selling that. And I like the fact that it's more targeted. So, if somebody wants to design in their home, they're going to go to something like Society Six to do it. Some of the things you can do there are frame prints, tapestries, welcome mats, shower curtains, furniture, acrylic trays. Also on Society Six, the sellers can decide on their own profit margins on their own creations. So, that's really kind of important. Now, you can only use your products on Society Six's website. It is targeted towards that home decor thing. You cannot sell off your website, but the fact that it is targeted like that really helps you out because people coming there are going to be looking for your products. Okay, so that's all I'm going to give you in this video. But in the other video, I'm going to give you the rest. So, make sure you go over to the other video that's video two. You're going to see a link in the description below. If this video just came out, the link may not be there yet, but it will be coming out very, very soon. And click in that link below and get the other half of this video. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. I would really appreciate it. A subscription helps me out and ring in the bell. Oh my gosh, turn on all your bell notifications. 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Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at three books from Roberto J. Obey This is card college light the card college light series Comes in the light lighter and lightest of three books in this series. It is a easy self-working Companion set to Roberto's card college series his giant master College level graduate level Card magic series. This is his lighter Version and it's the version that I own and the version I love and the version I highly recommend now If you don't know Roberto J. Obey, he is of course a world-acclaimed Slight of hand card magician. He originally wrote the card college series It's a tax that focuses just on the highest caliber of card tricks And it covers every single gambit from slights to moves to shuffling to tricks to it's just amazing Now the card college light series is intended for beginners But anybody else intermediate advanced anybody who likes Self-working and easy card tricks these three books are intended for anybody who've always wanted to perform card tricks But maybe they didn't have the time to learn all those hard nacky moves Or maybe they didn't have the years of experience necessary to do a lot of the difficult techniques So yes, this book is for beginners, but it is not strictly for beginners It's for anybody that loves card magic I think people who already do card tricks people who already adapted slights would still like this because these Books are just a class apart from other books that tend to be for beginners or tend to be what they call Slightless or self-working because there is a lot of artistic consideration put into these books Roberto goes over all of the staging all the communication all the psychology gives you tons and tons of notes There's beautiful pictures. He gives you the history behind all of these card tricks, which he would argue helps mature you as a Magician card college light it strives to be as simple as possible But yet at the same time giving you some just amazing knockdown Blow the door off cool card tricks a lot of the card tricks in these three volumes I perform on a regular basis. They're the tricks that I love the most And I I love self-working. I love Slightless tricks. I think they're neat Especially when you can perform them and they look like insane magic and it is possible And please don't think that you've gotten to this point where you're just above You know self-working tricks or you're above Slightless tricks that should never be the case You should always be revisiting Simplicity you should always be trying to strip away some of the excess and the extra in your tricks to hone it down to something That's elegant and beautiful. I think that's what Roberto has done in these three volumes So each one of these tricks and these volumes are time-tested Classics these little known miracles and all of them not just Roberto's Some of them are Done by world-class master magicians. Each one of these tricks has been hand-picked By Roberto and put into these three volumes light is separated into 21 tricks which enables you to do seven complete Car routines lighter is actually broken up into routine.  You'll learn 21 tricks all together This book is a hundred and seventy five pages in hardcover lightest Which is easily my favorite of the three volumes has 18 tricks and covers everything in a hundred and fifty two papers Now these books are roughly thirty five to forty dollars a piece So a little bit more than maybe what you're expected to pay But granted you have to think about the mass amount of card tricks that you're getting in these volumes and please Don't let the words self-working or Slightless deter you from this anybody who knows Card magic knows this name and they know that he does not put out garbage These belong right on your shelf right next to the card college series and as a series of card books I cannot more highly recommend them All right, so that is the card college light series from Roberto J. Obie And if you'd like to purchase your own you can find these at penguin magic calm. Thanks. Bye


For me to tell 16 year olds to be celibate is one thing a 37-year-old who's used to getting some I need a different kind of gospel Yeah, many modern-day preachers do not teach what accords would sound doctrine as the Bible says They'll bring in new things to make them and their church enticing to the world They'll try to dress a certain way or dance a certain way behave a certain way because they want to be friends with the world The Bible says though being friends with the world means that you are enemies with God And they will have a large audience because the Bible says that many people will not hear to sound doctrine But they'll have itching ears and these people know how to tickle their ears Be careful that you are not one of these people that are listening to people who do not have doctrine that lines up with scripture Be careful your pastor doesn't know how to expound on the text Be careful that you are not attending a church where you are preached to by a modern preacher


Stevenson fall 4-2 to Wilkes here tonight. Christian Taylor had coach Toria M off after this one You're able to tie it up at two a couple more goals from Wilkes ended up causing some separation What do you feel the difference was tonight? Wilkes wanted it more than us. I mean first second they outperformed us They turned it on at a point in second where we didn't match that pace and They were winning foot races winning puck battles And it showed and they capitalized on the mistakes that we made and we did not do the same back Now there is a long break coming up. How do you address this team before you know the start of January? Yeah, I mean obviously not a great way to go into a long break. We don't play for over a month You know not the outcome we plan for expected anticipated so Mentally it's gonna be something that we have to work to come back from but we have so much work to do On the actual game and the physicality of it and what we're doing like at the actual X's and O's That we're really just gonna have to lean in and commit as a team as individuals to doing so so that we actually can connect And make things happen. Thank you very much. We'll see you then. Thank you coach. I'm off. I'm Christian Taylor Go mustang sports calm


Hello and welcome back to my channel. If you're new here my name is Jackie, I'm an aspiring writer and lately I have been thinking about plagiarism or when plagiarism stops being plagiarism. So to take a step back into what brought me to this ramble, a couple of years ago I was listening to the Story Grid podcast and Sean Coyne who's the founder of like the Story Grid website and wrote the book in the start of the podcast. He did a 10 episode series I think called the Master Worth Experiment which I found incredibly fascinating. The idea was that you could select a piece of work that you thought was a master work so something that was perfection and you could dissect it and figure out all of the key beats and character arcs and so on and once you dissected it you could then transplant that to create a template for a new story so you could follow all of the exact same beats, the same character journeys but if you changed like the setting and the time and the writing style and the writer obviously you could have the same beats but it would essentially be a new unique piece of work and I am someone who loves structure, I love templates, I love guidelines. If you've seen my I Tried Plotting Like series you'll know that I'm a big fan of trying all of these methods and as soon as I heard this I thought you know that was real that is really interesting and I'd love to pick a piece of work that I love and try picking it apart and see if this works and if the piece that comes out at the end of it is something truly original. In this series they were using short story Breakback Mountain and it was quite interesting to listen to the conversation happening back and forth and the author who I believe was Anne Hawley she actually shared a pdf with her working document. Now unfortunately I don't think the story ever was finished so we can't see what the end result was of this experiment but the idea still stayed with me. Combined this with a few weeks ago I started playing the Final Fantasy 7 remake and it is an incredibly beautiful game it's just stunning to look at but I'm not loving it to be honest and admittedly I never played the original Final Fantasy 7 so I'm not sure how much it deviates from that but in the remake I feel like I don't actually know what the story is I know there's some corporation that's producing energy I guess in a way that's killing the planet and the people we're following are like eco-terrorists who want to take this company down but beyond that vague like overall thing there are no really clear goals or things that we're going towards it's sort of just a little mission at a time so oh we're blowing up this reactor let's get in and get out and we need to get from this sector to this one that'll take an hour because there are so many puzzles and things to figure out so there's so much that's distracting you on the way that you lose sight of what the big story is if there is in fact a big story like yes I need to go from one place to another but I don't actually know why anymore and that's incredibly frustrating to me now like I said I never played the original so I don't know if the original was also like that or if the remakes just like that because they've tried to flesh it out so much that they've got a lot of filler in there that doesn't contribute to the main plot so this then got me thinking about Final Fantasy 10 which is the first and only actual Final Fantasy game I've played all the way through and I played that back in I think 2005 so it had come out a couple of years before and I remember loving it I loved it so much that I played it through and I got to the end and I immediately played it through again and I couldn't stop watching like videos of the cut scenes online and what I loved about it was the story and so when I was playing with Final Fantasy 7 Remake I thought you know 10 had a much better story and what if I tried turning that into a book like what if I did the masterwork experiment and broke it down and then tried to create an original story that followed the same beats and the same structure and this brings us to today's topic which is when does plagiarism stop being plagiarism because if I want to retell the story of these characters in book form fine that is not an original piece of work though like if I'm taking the characters in the world and the story but if I change the character names and change the world and change some elements of the story is that enough to make it a unique piece of work or is something that sticks to the beats of another story always going to be an imitation of the original story and then from a legal standpoint like let's say I got to the end of this thing and was really proud of the piece of work I'd done and then wanted to sell it is this something that's sellable or is it plagiarism and one of the things that makes me think of is fanfiction because fanfiction often does this like they're not taking the original story but they're taking the original world characters and building on them and the reason that fanfiction is seen as like morally justifiable is because fanfiction authors aren't then going and selling those stories to publishers they are not making money off someone else's IP then we get into things like 50 shades of gray where someone did write a piece of fanfiction it got so popular that they got interest from publishers they did a control f search of their work and changed bella and edward to anastasia and christian I think and then essentially sold that as if it was a piece of unique work and I haven't actually read 50 shades of gray but my understanding is it doesn't actually like it obviously it doesn't have vampires in it I know that it has btsm but I don't actually think it follows the plot of twilight at all beyond these people meet each other and start a relationship so you could argue that yes it is in a unique piece of work now but it was inspired by someone else's work so does that mean it comes under the umbrella of plagiarism and should el james be making profits from something that was inspired by someone else's IP or is this a case of you know stealing like an artist where you take inspiration from something and then once you've changed it enough and turned it into your own thing it is legitimately a unique piece of work and therefore there is no moral issue with you making an income or a profit off that unique piece of work and even if we move away from fanfiction and specifically taking ideas from other pieces of work in order to jump start a new piece of work what about the fact that there are no unique stories what about the fact that there are certain genres with certain tropes and expectations I mean if we go back to story grid and you look at the story grid blog there are articles on secrets of different genres so secrets of the action genre secrets of the romance genre secrets of the thriller genre and each of those break down the key conventions of the genre but they even list key scenes that are expected in books of that type but just because I have one thriller here and one thriller here and both of them happen to have similar scenes that doesn't mean I've got a plagiarism issue that's conventions of the genre so how does that work into things you know if there are no original stories if every fantasy book is going to be some iteration of the hero's journey is plagiarism still relevant so I don't have an answer to this debate it is something I've been thinking about just because this morning I did finish revising powerless and I sent it off to my friend who's doing a book coaching course which means it is time to start thinking about the next project and because I've been struggling with new projects I thought maybe like doing this masterwork experiment maybe taking another story dissecting it and trying to create something original from that skeleton maybe that would be a good way to get started and to work those writing muscles which I still think is valid I think it's an interesting idea to do this as a writing experiment but what happens at the end and whether it's this specific example or you've found yourself in the same position where you've started with some fan fiction or you've started inspired by someone else's work what happens when you get to the end and it turns out you wrote something that you think is really cool do you then have a right to publish it and market it should you just put it on Kindle for free because it isn't your original IP and therefore you shouldn't be making money from it or should you send it to publishers and see what they think and see if they notice the similarity between the two pieces of work like if I end up going ahead with this should I send my Final Fantasy 10 rip off out to agents and publishers and then ask them to play Final Fantasy 10 to see how similar they think they are so I have no idea but I would love to hear your thoughts so let me know what you think about where the boundaries between what is and what isn't plagiarism end let me know what you think about when it is appropriate to make money from a project that has taken some inspiration from someone else so please let me know what you think in the comments below and if there is an interesting discussion in the comments maybe that means we have a part two of this video that gets into more specifics rather than just Jackie rambling off the top of her head so I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give me a big thumbs up subscribe hit the notification bell and I will see you next time bye