I want to be clear that I have already utilized my Chain of Command, Patient Advocate, Detachment and Delta First Shirts, IG, and Legal. I believe I have run out of options and am looking for an outside opinion.

1. At the end of March, I was scheduled for a Command Directed Evaluation (CDE). This evaluation was completed with an on base Licensed Counselor in Social Work (LCSW) at the Mental Health Clinic. I had been sent home early from deployment due to my deployment team’s concern for my mental health and the lack of access to medical counseling while deployed. I did not ask to leave and I never stopped working or trying my best. I had returned home the afternoon prior.
   
2. Prior to deployment, I was feeling nervous but excited. When I initially volunteered to deploy, I thought it was in my career field, but I learned during training that it was not. Throughout the training, I was adamant about struggling to understand and communicated this to both the deployment unit and my home unit. I also talked to my off base Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) weekly about my fears and what I looked forward to. I had been talking to this counselor for seven months and saw so much growth in myself. Based on conversations with people who had previously gone, this sounded like a deployment that offered unique opportunities to travel and try new things. I also heard they worked 12-hour shifts with two days on followed by two days off. Despite struggling to understand the mission, it sounded like a great opportunity. While out-processing, Flight Medicine acknowledged my referral and mental health diagnoses and asked if I felt ready. I answered with an honest yes because I genuinely thought I was doing great. I had not realized how much my mental state at the time relied on continuing to live the life I was living. Ultimately, I have learned I was unprepared. I was unprepared for the schedule to change to 12-hour shifts with five days on followed by two days off. I was not prepared for how hard the night shift would hit me. I was not prepared for how little time there would be to train me or how little work there would be for someone at my skill level. I was not prepared for how quickly my mental health was going to struggle as I found myself sleep-deprived, hungry, lonely, and lacking importance. I could not have known I was not mentally capable of a deployment because I had never been deployed. I am an E-4 who just hit their 3rd year in.
   
3. I original met with the LCSW in early 2022. I have recently discovered many of the notes she took from our three sessions included errors and incorrect statements. I did not find these sessions to be beneficial and with a busy shift-work schedule and multiple cancellations from the clinic, I took a pause on therapy.
   

In early 2023, I went back to the clinic and began working with BHOP and a nurse who helped get me an off-base referral. I have met with this nurse quarterly for Face-to-Face Assessment from March-December 2023.

1. I started the CDE by being open and honest about my deployment experience. I found that I had to repeat myself multiple times as the LCSW would ask me a question I had already answered, but ultimately, I did not think much of it. The turning point for this conversation began when I explained that, while deployed, I was struggling with knowing I was pouring all this time and energy into a job that I would only be doing for four months and I would never use those skills again. The LCSW attempted to clarify that she was not trying to invalidate me and asked me what a mindset like that was supposed to do for me. I was confused by the question and paused as I thought about it. Ultimately, I do not disagree that a more “positive” mindset could have helped push me through, but the reality was I was expected to do a job that I was inadequately trained to do, and I was frustrated and overwhelmed. I also had little support from my leadership there. The phrasing of her question felt as though I was being told the struggles I had been facing were solely my fault, and I should have just been more positive. I did not feel heard.

When I explained how I had reached out to the Military and Family Life Counseling (MFLC) while deployed, and they agreed that I would benefit more from medical counseling, the LCSW asked me what I meant. She said that all counseling is medical. I was bewildered at this moment because that was a false statement. MFLC’s website states they provide “free, confidential non-medical counseling to service members…” At this moment, I felt as though I was more in an interrogation room than an open conversation. I was very defensive and felt my body moving from hyperarousal to hypo-arousal. Finally, the breaking moment for me was when I was informed that I would no longer be receiving a mental health referral to return to my off-base counselor. I was devastated. I explained that regardless of whether it was self-funded or not, I would be returning to my off-base counselor. However, I know that will be a substantial financial stress for me. I asked why this was happening, considering that although my symptoms had increased in frequency, it was due to a situation I am no longer in, and the symptoms themselves were not new. Nothing I experienced on the deployment was something new and all these symptoms had been discussed with my off-base counselor. The difference was intensity and length. The LCSW almost seemed mad at me then and said this was the military policy and is how off-base referrals worked.
I asked her if there was any opportunity to talk to higher-ups and have this policy about a referral changed for my situation, as I did not want to restart therapy with a new counselor. I am so incredibly happy and proud of my progress with my current one. I did not feel any empathy from the LCSW at this moment as she almost mockingly replied, “What do you mean “higher-ups.” I knew at that moment that she was not an advocate for me. I do not understand the referral process for my situation as I very clearly stated I am not interested in hurting myself. I feel as though I am being punished for having and admitting to mental health struggles when I have done all I can to be open and honest. I am consistently told how much the military cares for mental health and have simultaneously found this to be untrue as I struggled to get into the clinic and be heard. I frequently leave feeling less confident and prepared for what life throws at me. All positive interactions I have had with mental health services have been due to BHOP and the Nurse's support in getting me an off-base referral.
I also want to note they did not have on-base availability for another 19 days, but my off-base provider had availability within 5 days.

1. After having a meeting with my Squadron CC, 16 days after the CDE, I was informed of feedback my CC had received from the LCSW but was never relayed to me. I reported this to Patient Advocate. I have never been in a situation where my boss knows more about my personal health than I do. There was multiple different aspects of this conversation that my CC could not speak to and left me with great confusion. I had checked my MHS Genesis and none of this information was in there.

It was agreed between me and my Chain of Command that I would be on a limited movement profile for 3 months and my goal was to continuously go to the Clinic, meeting with a Psychologist versus the LCSW. At this point, I mentioned that I would be paying out of pocket and continuing to see my off-base provider. I was told that was my prerogative and our meeting ended.
The 19 days passed and it is now late April. Unfortunately, the appointment with the Psychologist did not go well. This was meant to be, according to the LCSW's suggestion, an in-take session. But that error in communication did not end up mattering because once the Psychologist discovered I was still seeing my off-base provider, she deemed it, “Unethical for a provider to see a patient who is already being seen for counseling.” I had communicated I would be paying out of pocket to the LCSW, my entire Chain of Command, and my off-base therapist and had not thought this would be an issue. After several hours of contemplating what to do, I decided to schedule four sessions with the Psychologist. Because those was nearly a month away, I saw my off-base provider for three more sessions.

1. Initially, I filed all of this information to the Legal office because I felt there was possibly a legal issue occurring, but I was told to file it with IG. On April 22, I filed an IG Complaint, however, on May 2, they referred my complaint to the OMRS/CC. I have not received any follow-up information.
   
2. During the April 26 feedback appointment with the LCSW, I had my Detachment First Sergeant join me. I left this session with a multitude of questions, but having already asked a fair number of questions, I found myself wanting out of the conversation because it did not feel productive.
   

The LCSW informed me my off-base referral was removed because I had recently returned from deployment, there was an increase in depressive symptoms, and there was morbid ideation. However, this statement seemed to be conflicted when she stated their policy is to keep patients in clinic if there are questions regarding the person’s safety or fitness for duty. She agreed the CDE determined I was safe and fit for duty and that if I wasn’t, “I would know about it.”
The LCSW claimed the Clinic cannot track any symptoms off-base; however, I saw the Nurse quarterly while seeing my off-base provider. In these sessions, she received a write-up from my therapist as well as asked me questions relating to symptoms.
My biggest concern from this meeting was when the LCSW stated, “I think my recommendation to command is very different from what I’m recommending to you.” Unfortunately, I did not inquire more information as to why it would be different.
All communication from Patient Advocate has been via phone, however, it was supposedly closed on May 10. I was informed that they are making two major changes: 1. Patients can now request a new provider if they feel uncomfortable. And providers are asked to be aware of the patient’s mood throughout the session. 2. For CDEs, a patient will receive full feedback on diagnosis and recommended care prior to it being communicated to their commander. I appreciate these solutions, but I am unsure how they help my current situation.

1. On May 10, I had my first session with the Psychologist. This was one week earlier than our schedule May 17 appointment because she cancelled the May 17 appointment to take leave. This session was incredibly uncomfortable to me, but I went in with an open mind and was continuously challenging my negative thoughts about not being able to pick my provider. I had typed a 12-page MFR that detailed my mental health history, including providers and tools I had learned, and had asked her to upload it to my medical record. I did not want to take time to go through all these details when they were already documented on paper. She did not read any of this MFR during my session, but promised she would read it later.

Once again, having been communicated by the LCSW, I assumed this session was going to be an in-take, but it was not. This realization changed my mood quickly because even after doing all I could, the communication still fell through. Thankfully, the Psychologist agreed to do an in-take over our first two-sessions. I expressed my frustration with the situation and she replied by saying I needed to work on “positive reframing” and that she was "bending over backwards" for me by making my 60-minute session an intake. She explained that me being frustrated is valid but "they're all doing the best they can." This all felt very diminishing.
Another comment she made was that she felt uncomfortable as a provider knowing that I did not want her to be my therapist. This was a very uncomfortable statement to hear as I have been given the chose to go to see her or financially fund my counseling myself.
Leaving the session, I was so sad to have had another negative experience because I really wanted this to work out. Simultaneously, I did not want to report this initially to Patient Advocate because I knew it might result in a more awkward climate between the Psychologist and me. However, my thoughts on this changed on May 17 when I reviewed my record and say that she did not upload my MFR quoting that I had, "presented written documentation of a 12-page Memorandum for Record that she had written, to include photos of texts and others’ names and seemed inappropriate to upload to her medical record." This was very upsetting as she did not consult that with me, and I believe I should have a say in my medical record.
Upon this discovery, I contacted Patient Advocate and just feel like I am wasting so much of my time advocating for myself to get mental health care that is professional and helpful versus actually being able to work on my mental health. I have been open and honest about my mental health struggles, but it seems my biggest stressor right now is this Mental Health Clinic. From my personal experience, I do not believe my mental health is a priority to this facility.
While uncomfortable, I made it through the following appointment. It has already been established the Psychologist and I are not comfortable around one another, but we do not have another option. Almost immediately in our session, she pointed out my Patient Advocate complaint, and it was clear she was not happy I had reported her. I had not expected such a blunt conversation. However, it did end with her apologizing for misunderstanding what I had attempted to communicate during the last session.
There was another moment during the session where she mentioned feeling as though I may “twist her words” if she is not careful.
Following this session, the mental health Flight Commander, a Major, spoke with me. This conversation was appreciated; however, it did not change anything. I am happy to know the way I was treated throughout this process has been incorrect and unprofessional, and she was apologetic for it. However, again, I am still stuck in the middle of all of it and continuously getting worse. After two months of being home, I still have not had a mental health session dedicated to talking about my deployment.

1. What else can I do? My mental health is struggling but because I am not a risk to myself or others, I am not being taken seriously.

This post is considering income of Temporal (yellow) and Twilight (red) essences. While the main renewable source of Temporal essences is Dream Realm, I really am not considering Dream Fragments, to be clear.
Also if I mention "resources", I mean Temporal and Twilight essences.
Also the post is pretty long, so I made sure that there are headlines, if some of you are only interested in specific informations, you are free to find it easily..
..but in case, you will disagree with me and want to express it in comment, then please read section the "Final words".

What is the problem?

Shortly: there is little to no Temporal and Twilight essences renewable income, unless you play a lot and spend a lot.
Point is, that you should not be stripped of resources by choosing different pace of playtime or paying less than a whale or choosing characters that you like and are not "meta".
By spending less and playing less, only the acquisition rate should drop, but you should not lose the way to acquire the resource.
So I will eventually propose few suggestions, that shall not hurt Lilith's income, but improve quality of player gaming experience.
As confirmed by moderator: "The goal has always been for players to play at their own pace."
F2P, low spenders and eventually even mid-spenders, lose to any whale and are stripped of renewable sources of vital essences for most of the time (only at the very start and very end of season/preseason, they can compete, if they make it in time).
I believe, there should be options for both Temporal and Twilight essences as are for Tidal essence, the requirements to get them should be reachable, but the price should be impactful enough, so that it will not alter Lilith's income, yet improve player experience - by making them hard to get, but reachable.
Fairly of course, if you choose to pursue upgrade material, then you will be losing on some character pulls.
This is, of course, how Tidal (blue) essence is gained and how guild chest rewards work, but currently, the income from guild chests is so tiny, so that you are not able to make any character's equipment from level 5 to 15 in a year just by that. I am noticing, that with district ranking, it is somewhat easier to obtain the Temporal Essences. But still, I believe, that there is a room to improve.
For example:
Not everybody on my server made it to seasonal content in 42 days (or at least I think it was 42 days to reach season). And I am sure, that a fellow guild member, who is behind even payed for some boost. But got busy in real life, so he is behind and has no chance of getting even the 1 essence a day.
I do not think, that he deserves to be kind of punished for being busy in real life.. why can't he just progress at his own pace and why must he be starved of Temporal Essence?
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Also please consider, the experiences of players on very first servers might differ, I am currently on server 439, season is just 3 days here. So even with extra effort on progressing as fast as possible, I only had like 5 days of being at 240 resonance and equipment level, so the F2P on server 1 might have different chance to compete.

Why should Lilith listen to it?

Currently, the essences are locked behind ranking. So you need both the time and money to get them.
If you get busy in life? Then sorry, you get nothing and you will not get anything in future either, because others are ahead.
This is not in alignment of "play at your own pace, get resources at your own pace", because you are not getting any resources.
It is only good if you want to frustrate players and make them leave the game.
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I acknowledge, that the potential improvement should not have negative impact on Lilith's income, but if it is done properly, it will potentially yield better figures.
Firstly, by removing frustration of any non-whale player, will eventually lead to better retention of low and mid spenders and possible conversion of F2P into low spenders. Not to mention, less people will be quitting the game (spenders included).
Secondly, the experiences of whales should not be diminished, so that Lilith will not lose a whale in the proccess of improvement.
Thirdly, as with first point, whales want to score better than others, but if you detter enough F2P and low spenders, then you may eventually burn out a whale. So it is good to have players on both ends.
So that whales will clearly be above others and F2P and low spenders will have their slow chance to get, what they want.
I'd say, that this is a win-win-win situation. Happy Lilith, happy whales, happy F2P - better reputation of AFKJourney as a non-whale game, bringing new players, potentially spenders, long term-efficiency increase.

Highlight on the frustration among players

There are many posts on this subreddit, that express frustration and quitting the game. Highlighting the issue of being trampled by whales.
So here are some example posts from F2P:
https://www.reddit.com/AFKJourney/comments/1d770gg

• this post claims, that the player was willing to spend, but is constantly put under competition, which demotivates both him and his comrades and no longer sees the reason to spend, confirming, that the situation resulted into people quitting

https://www.reddit.com/AFKJourney/comments/1cdw2w7/

• this player is aware of slow progression and worse personal satisfaction in gacha games, but being unable to progress at all is dettering the player

But even a mid-spenders view it as a problem:
https://www.reddit.com/AFKJourney/comments/1cvvd0o

• the player is neither F2P, nor a low-spender, yet he still have problems getting the essences (he mentions it in point 3)

There are many more such posts.
That kind of concludes, that unless you are whale, you simply have no stable source of these essences.
The experience is frustrating for F2P to even mid-spenders. I am low-spender myself, but if there will be no improvement, I will also stop spending, since it has little to no point as the thing, that I am looking for is locked from me.
Not to mention, there is no assurance, that Lilith will not release a powercreep unit, that will trample Marilee and since I am willing to make her weapon above +15 even with the limited resources I get and will have her S+ this month. I would consider that a quitting point for myself, if no improvement in acquisition of essences will be made.
Because having Marilee is pretty much a deal-breaker in Dream Realm. And I am pretty much only investing into her because of it, so that I will eventually one day beat a whale and get these essences, so that I can focus on characters, that I like to play, which is not Marilee. The same applies to Reinier, although he has at least some cool mechanics, but still, I would prefer Scarlita.
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Suggestions on improvements

I am acknowledging, that I am not aware of what Lilith earns currently by their strategy and so that final adjustments must be made by them, but I have multiple propositions, while only one shall be enough.
Endless mode adjustments
Daily acquirable reward for anybody, who deals some certain amount of damage, regardless of rating.
In practice: Meaning, that any player, who will score more, than the boss default rewards (which was around 20M damage if I recall off-season), will earn Tidal essences even if they are not in top 200. If they deal more than 30M damage, they will earn more Tidal and start receiving Temporal essences and perhaps after 50M damage, they will start to receive Twilight (although as I am aware, they are suppossed to be more available, than the Temporal).
This means, that yes, whales will still get much more, because they will both fulfill both the ranking rewards and the damage based rewards. Thus they should not be bothered.
I cannot see a flaw in this approach, unless the path to endless mode will be made in such a manner, that low spenders will barely reach it before season ends, although if it is balanced, it might enhance ratio of low-spenders with a vision of pursuing this opportunity.
Dream Realm Emporium adjustment
This may be either an alternative or additional mechanic.
It may require you to reach the endless mode, to gain access to spend Dream Fragments (green currency) to buy the essencess instead of A rank character shards. As of what price should have it, it shall be up to Lilith to decide, so it will not be discouraging people from whaling. But my opinion is that the price of making exclusive equipment from 5 to 15 should be less, than making a Supreme+ charater a Paragon IV character.
But it would be nice, if that option would persist through seasons. Possibly making it slightly more limited until you reach endless mode, so that effort would be neccessary, but not as limited as that you barely reach the end of season to just buy 20 essences and new season will be locking you the possibility for next 90 days or so.
It could be like, you can buy only 5 Temporal essences per month after beating all easy mode bosses and the number will increase to total 15 per month after beating all next difficulties and so on.
Perhaps reaching 50 a month on endless difficulties, but of course, the price must be that high, that the person will probably have to sacrifice all possible A character sigils for that particular month.
If the price will be set lower, I would no oppose of course, but I am proposing a solution, that will be the least damaging to Lilith's income.
Other shops adjustments
Tidal essencess are simply obtainable each day by diamons, so they are not a resource, that needs consideration. You simply choose, if you want a character pull or you get currency for character boost.
Currently guild coins seem to be pretty valuable resource, as they are bulletproof way of unlocking a Celestial/Hypogean heroes. So if there was an option to spend them to buy Temporal Essences by guild coins, I cannot see a flaw in that.
There would be a predictable/consistent way of getting them, but a significant trade-off between valuable units (cele/hypo) and upgrade essences. I do not see a way, that this would affect a whale experience negatively, since they have means to get their hypogeans/celestials regardless of guild coins and if they eventually max these units, they will be looking for that currency anyway - so it will also potentially fix a problem, where whale has maxxed out celestials and hypogeans and has no way of how to use guild coins. At least until next such unit gets released, but they will likely max it anyway soon, unless it is very underperforming unit.
This will however also solve additional problem and that is, when players simply want to enjoy the characters they like.
Also very simply, these essences can be added to normal emporium store once you fulfill some criteria. They will be more expensive than Tidal essences, but I also see no problem of them being available by just diamonds, because you will eventually still need to decide, if you want new characters (mostly the S ones, which are not in arena shop) or if you will prefer to invest into one specific character to be simply happy for it. Also a trade-off.
Adding exchange system
As I saw in current comment, it is apparent, that some players have no use for Tidal Essences anymore, so the currency is just collecting dust, perhaps after obtaining certain amount of Tidal essences, there could be an exchance option?
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Some personal addition

Personally, I wish to just enjoy characters like Satrana, have Rhys for fun, I like how Kafra speaks, I kind of admire Soren lore-wise and his dedication, Valen is quite funny. But investing into these characters means kind of losing, because they are not meta. Unfortunatelly, Kafra being totally useless, unless he is fully invested and even after that, he is very niche. So "Hoot! In verity, investment of thee, mayst be of a trampled one!" ("In truth, yours investment may yield negative results.")
Seriously, I want Scarlita and not Reinier, Marilee is quite ok, but I would also prioritize different unit over her.
Yes, if I am supposed to be gaining the essences more slowly, I am ok with that, but I am not ok, that if I want to enjoy a game as I like, that even as a low spender I have no chance of gaining some specific currency. This makes me question, if this is even a game? Since games are supposed to provide fun, not frustration.
If it does not meet criteria of a game, then what is the point of playing it or even investing into it?

My viewpoint

I believe, it is also appropriate to state my viewpoint. I am not saying it from a perspective of a person, who is totally behind.
Even with just Esperia Monthly and Secret Travelogue I still made it to champion tier in arena and since the new season, I am still holding in top 100 server and top 500 district. But the price is, that I no longer enjoy the game as I must do all AFK stages manually, because they are too hard for autocombat. I tend to repeat the stages to find the best composition. I can beat enemies of much higher strenght. And I was in top 100 too before season started, when I caught up with whales, because they could not be too ahead of me after I reached resonance 240. But I barely made it in these 42 days.
But as I said, I no longer enjoy it. I am sacrificing my life for the sake of extra 3 Temporal essences a day, while acknowledging, that I will eventually be again pushed away and my income will be at most that 1 Temporal essence a day from being in top 75% of district and with some luck, I may get 3 essences each week from guild. I simply find it toxic and do not want to participate into this power hunt anymore. I just want a slower progression and slower rewards - not slower progression and no rewards.
Also, I am a guild leader and so far, my guild holds integrity, even after the guild creator stopped playing, since then I took the leadership and managed to deal with a fact, that each week we lost 5 members and not by them leaving the guild, but leaving the game. While I had like 15 stable members, there were like 30 players, that joined and that I had to kick for simply stopping playing.
So I would really be happy, if the situation with AFKJourney would be more stable, the player retention is terrible so far.
If I was not a leader, that tried to make our guild warm and stable and if I did not want to trample the hopes of others, who trust me as a person, because I personally message every member, if they face struggles and need help, if I see them behind, instead of kicking them out... if not for that, I would have quit the game already.
But I somehow feel responsibility to stay with these players and make the game better. So this is why I am not quitting, but investing into this post, which is not an easy task (you will understand if you will read "Final words").

Final words

This is my third post, considering this issue. I deleted the previous two ones for specific reasons. First post was not of a very high quality, so I decided to rewrite it.
But the second post was of optimal quality, yet doomvoted by a person with misleading counter-argument.
I verified with AFKJourney support, that his argument was misleading and breaking rules.
But the result was, that I kept getting downvotes on pretty much any reaction and the post itself was losing upvotes (it initially had good score), so I deleted it also. So this is another frustration I had to overcome.
The "opponent stated":
"The system is working as intended. This is a competitive gacha game, in other words, this entire system is their business model. Free to play and low spenders have a fundamentally different experience and that is by design. Artificially created adversity, or as you call it, a paywall, is meant to frustrate the player into spending money. There is nothing to fix because the system is not broken."
I was assured, that this is certainly not, what Lilith games wants.
I hope I am allowed to quote mod's statements:
"The intention is certainly never for f2p/low spenders to "feel like they can't play the game" - the game is intended to be accessible, playable, and fun for any player."
"There's certainly a level of intended progression, and the options players face is wait vs pay. If players feel especially impatient, they may feel incentivized to pay, but it's not an obligation players should face. The goal has always been for players to play at their own pace."
"That said, you certainly didn't deserve the downvotes for having an open and productive discussion."
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By that I consider this a final version and last version. Also I apologize, but I will cease to make a response on any of your possible comments just because of my previous experiences. If you wish to discuss something specifically with me, message me personally.
Also as I cited both the opponent and moderator, I hope, that none of you will dare to break rule 5 this time - No Misleading Information.
So please be fair and constructive.
Thank you for reading.
And thanks to AFKJourney CS team for possibly forwarding it to DEVs. If it is somehow possible, I would be happy to hear, what the DEVs had to say about this issue.
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Oh I got 6 hours of AFK rewards during writing of the post.. (compiling, rewriting, assuring of no misleading information, increasing quality of post, integrating new elements, checking typos). I hope that this time, there will be no opposition. I just hope for a better future of this game.

The so-called “troubles” in Northern Ireland never go away, you know. Shelves of books continue to be published. There is a sizeable stand at WHSmith in Belfast airport dedicated to the latest crop. Film-makers are still drawn to the subject. One of the most recent, Baltimore, related (poorly) the story of the 1974 theft of priceless paintings orchestrated on behalf of the IRA by Rose Dugdale. And television programme-makers often return to the conflict. At each end of March 2024, for example, the BBC screened two very different documentaries that dealt with its earliest phase. The first was a 13-minute segment in the third part of a series, How the BBC Began. The second, The Secret Army, was a 90-minute film about a film, concerning a “disappeared” documentary about the IRA made in 1972 by an American academic.
It would have been of far greater value if the interrogation of the BBC’s role in Northern Ireland had been given a solo 90-minute slot. As for the second, well, let’s just say half an hour would have been long enough. But both, in their very different ways, reminded us that truth is always a moving target. While retelling a history we know well – or think we know well – they underlined the overwhelming importance of propaganda. In war, and let’s not haggle over that description of what took place for 30 years on the streets of Belfast and Derry, the fabrication assumes as great a role, arguably a greater one, than the reality. As three of the BBC’s former luminary staff made abundantly clear, the story they were required to tell did not come close to fulfilling the stated aim of Britain’s public service broadcaster to present impartial information to its listeners and viewers. Each of them admitted they were prevented from telling what they knew to be the truth.
For the record, here’s what they said. First up, Sir Paul Fox, controller of BBC1 for six years from 1967: “In a way, it was as difficult to film in Northern Ireland as it was to film in the Soviet Union … stuff was censored, there’s no question about it, by the hierarchy in Northern Ireland. I suppose it’s worth saying there were bloody Protestants who were running the BBC in those days and had a grip on it … everything that was filmed by Tonight and Panorama in Northern Ireland had to be seen by the head of programmes in Northern Ireland, and he would act as a censor… There were no Catholics working in the BBC in senior positions. Outrageous.”
Second, Denis Tuohy, who learned on joining BBC Belfast in 1960 that he was the first Catholic to work in the newsroom, because a local paper greeted his recruitment with the headline: “At last, an appointment from the outside.” He said: “Those who ran the BBC in Northern Ireland and the unionist government of Northern Ireland … had lots of mutual friends.” Eight years later, by now working in London, Tuohy’s editor thought him the perfect reporter to send to Belfast to cover the outbreak of riots “to help us to understand” what was happening. But the editor was overruled, explaining to Tuohy: “BBC Northern Ireland have protested at the highest level of the BBC in London to you as the reporter… They feel you would be too close to the story.” Too off-message, more like.

The man in the white suit who was “kind of impartial”

Third, Martin Bell, sent from London to report during the earliest days of the troubles: “I hardly knew the difference between Belfast and Dublin. I’ve never admitted this before, but it is true… I learned very quickly the sort of thing you had to learn… the BBC’s controller in Northern Ireland was breathing over your shoulder all the time… BBC cameras and reporters were attacked by the loyalists because we were not the voice of loyalism, because we were kind of impartial and even-handed, even then, and we were giving a voice to their republican rivals, so I got harassed quite a bit.”
Kind of impartial? Even that was too much for the then-unionist government in Stormont. But, with the greatest of respect to Mr Bell, to refer to the BBC’s coverage of the conflict that raged from 1968 until 1998 as “kind of impartial” is entirely to miss the point. Aside from suggesting that truth is some kind of spectrum, it was wholly incorrect. Not kind of impartial, but very partial indeed. Partial and, in some instances, wholly untruthful. What is now evident, and should have been evident at the time, was the willingness of the BBC, which habitually asserted its independence from the state, to do the state’s bidding. Yet this is not, any longer, a controversial viewpoint. It is mainstream. It is accepted as fact. Note the lack of any reaction by the current BBC hierarchy, by politicians, or by commentators, to those statements by Fox, Tuohy and Bell. They provoked no denials. Nothing we haven’t known for years. That was then, and this is now. Move on.
But shaking our heads and lamenting what some would like to pass off as a historical aberration is just not good enough. The BBC’s news and current affairs output failed every possible test of impartiality. The fact that its censorship has long been recognised does not negate the significance of what happened. Nor should it be allowed to pass into some kind of historical limbo. Each additional revelation of the BBC’s faults during that conflict requires examination and explanation. As Fox rightly indicated, pro-unionist prejudice was embedded within the BBC from its inception. The Belfast-based controllers, all of them drawn from a unionist background and supportive of the Stormont government, were allowed to do as they wished by the corporation’s London headquarters. None more so than Waldo Maguire, controller from 1966 to 1972, who suppressed anything he considered inflammatory, meaning, of course, anything that offered even an inkling of the truth. What he achieved and, through him, the wider BBC, was a bias against understanding.
For example, the framing of civil rights protests in 1969 as some kind of stalking horse for the IRA was a crucial deception, playing on the fears of unionists within Northern Ireland while creating among its audience in Britain a bogeyman enemy which, at the time, did not exist as a fighting force. As Bell recalled, reality was camouflaged. When Catholics were burned out of their homes, he was told: “You’re not allowed to call them Catholics. You have to call them refugees.”
These contributions to a false narrative were also charted, along with several others, in a fascinating and meticulous 2015 study by Robert Savage, The BBC’s ‘Irish troubles’: Television, conflict and Northern Ireland. As he related, matters grew infinitely worse for the BBC once British soldiers were deployed on the streets in August 1969. Their arrival engendered the founding, some four months later, of the Provisional IRA and, suddenly, the shadow enemy assumed factual existence. From this point on, the battles on the streets were echoed by battles behind the scenes for media influence.
Despite Maguire’s malign influence, some BBC reporters refused to toe the line. John Bierman, for instance, broadcast a network news item in February 1971 in which he said: “There are growing doubts about the army’s impartiality among moderate middle-class Catholics desperately anxious to hold their co-religionists back from extremism.”
This report enraged the authorities, in Stormont and in Westminster. It also prompted the British army and Britain’s secret services to get their act together. Seen in retrospect, one of the most remarkable aspects of their response was its speed and sophistication. Informed by counter-insurgency experience elsewhere in Britain’s empire, notably by that of General Sir Frank Kitson, it was understood that censorship was no longer good enough; it must be replaced by its more proactive cousin, propaganda. Far and away its greatest success was to institute what became the conflict’s most persuasive overarching media narrative, the portrayal of the army as the disinterested piggy in the middle between two warring tribes.

Maguire becomes the Godfather of news output

It was eagerly adopted by the “neutral” BBC. But there was no tribal equality. There was never any doubt that one tribe – variously described as Catholic, nationalist or republican – was the state’s main enemy. To hammer home the point, lest the BBC’s journalists stray, various pressures were applied, overt and covert, to reinforce the message. When internment was introduced in August 1971, government ministers openly warned the BBC to beware “bias”. The defence secretary, Lord Carrington, wrote to the corporation’s chairman, Lord Hill, to complain about reports “which are unfairly loaded to suggest improper behaviour by British troops”. The post and telegraphs minister, Christopher Chataway, then made a speech in which he said broadcasters need no longer strike an even balance between the unionist government and the IRA, nor between the army and the IRA. Lord Hill took the hint, writing to the home secretary, Reginald Maudling, to affirm that “as between the British Army and the gunmen the BBC is not and cannot be impartial”. These exchanges had the effect of reinforcing Maguire’s hand, cementing his power over all output relating to Northern Ireland. He forbade reporters from interviewing released internees who alleged army brutality and prevented the screening of an interview with the civil rights leader Michael Farrell on his release. He also overruled the making of an “in depth” programme about the IRA.
Although these decisions were not made public at the time, BBC journalists were aware of them. What they did not know was the army’s decision, in the wake of public hostility to internment, to engage in a covert media war through the formation of its notorious information policy unit. The single aim of this khaki public relations initiative was to disseminate misinformation (aka lies). Working closely with the secret services, notably MI5, and often with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), it developed into an agency of deceit. Years passed before reporters realised they could not trust its briefings. Again, this is now well known, a matter of record, and it is therefore tempting to pass it off as a deviation from the norm, the result of the requirement to deal with exceptional circumstances. No need, all these years on, to rake over old coals. Nothing new can be found in those embers. Wrong, so wrong.
By December 1971, disinformation was the order of the day for the army, and one of its central themes was the denigration of the Provisional IRA. Their operatives were to be portrayed as cowards and/or psychopaths who bombed indiscriminately without a care for the local population. One of that policy’s most contentious manifestations followed the bombing that month of a Belfast pub favoured by Catholics, McGurk’s Bar. It was one of Northern Ireland’s deadliest atrocities, killing 15 Catholics, including two children, and wounding 17 more.
Immediately afterwards, British security forces briefed journalists about the bomb having exploded inside the pub. Unnamed “forensic experts” were cited as having “pinpointed” the centre of the blast with “a tell-tale crater” in the main bar area. It was further hinted that the pub was a regular meeting place for members of the Provisional IRA. These falsehoods suggested that the bomb was an IRA device, a scenario enthusiastically endorsed by none other than Kitson, the commander of 39 Infantry Brigade. He noted in his log that the RUC had “a line that the bomb” was “left in the pub to be picked up by the Provisional IRA. Bomb went off and was a mistake”.
Yet a British army technical officer had already reported to his superiors that it was the pub’s entrance that was cratered and was, therefore, “the seat of the explosion”. This dovetailed with the account of a witness, an eight-year-old boy, who told of seeing men drive up and place a package at the pub’s doorway. This statement was subsequently supported by the confession of the only man prosecuted for the crime (in 1977, loyalist Robert Campbell of the UVF was sentenced to life imprisonment, eventually serving 15 years). But it was the lie that gained media traction, especially at the BBC’s “prestigious” current affairs programme Panorama. Weeks after the event, it reported that “an IRA bomb” was responsible for the massacre.
So far, so bad. A tone had been set. In subsequent years, there was a reliance on unattributed briefings and a belief in their veracity. In the BBC’s news report in January 1972 about Bloody Sunday in Derry, in which 14 people were killed by the Paratroop Regiment, one sentence was particularly notable: “The gun battle lasted about 25 minutes.” That lie – there was no battle – was finally laid to rest 38 years later by Lord Savile’s inquiry. It was, however, just one of so many examples where the security forces’ version of events was too readily accepted.
As if the external political pressure, internal constraints and the army’s information policy unit were not enough to keep the BBC in check, it has become apparent that there was another undeclared level of contact between the corporation and the state. Pioneering research into the BBC archives by Belfast-based Ciarán MacAirt, founder of the Paper Trail charity and grandson to two McGurk’s Bar victims, has revealed a fascinating link between a secret section of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department (IRD), and a well-placed BBC executive. The contact is clear from a letter sent by the IRD’s Josephine O’Connor Howe to John Cecil Crawley, chief assistant to the then-BBC director-general, Sir Charles Curran.

BBC discounted evidence from eyewitnesses to bombing

She offered Crawley “a background paper” on the IRA, adding that “as usual it is sent for your personal background and is not for attribution”. That letter, dated December 6, 1971, was delivered on the day the BBC in Belfast interviewed two witnesses to the McGurk’s Bar explosion, both of whom offered evidence diametrically opposed to the army’s “official version”, evidence that the BBC discounted. Crawley, in thanking O’Connor Howe for the “very interesting” paper, confirmed that he had sent it on to Desmond Taylor, editor of news and current affairs. Taylor had inherited the job weeks before from Crawley, who headed the news department for four years after spending 26 years as a BBC correspondent and editor.
MacAirt has unearthed other files that show IRD contact with BBC managers and journalists. One file of “ad hoc” BBC contacts was compiled by Norman Reddaway, whose 1970 Foreign Office title as “assistant undersecretary for information and cultural affairs” tended to conceal his real role as, to quote his obituary, “an expert in the field of intelligence and counterpropaganda”. It was also the case that the London-based IRD was closely allied to the army’s Belfast-based information policy unit. At least one of its operatives, Hugh Mooney, was a former journalist for the Irish Times and Reuters, who worked for both. The interpenetration of journalists with the secret services is hardly a new revelation, of course, but each new discovery raises important questions.
Nor must we forget that there is a human element to all this obfuscation and secrecy. MacAirt’s grandmother, Kitty Irvine, died in the McGurk’s blast, and his grandfather John, who served in an Irish regiment of the British army, was badly injured. MacAirt is one of the many bereaved who have been campaigning for a generation to expose the truth and to obtain official acknowledgement of what he calls “the casual criminalisation of our loved ones”. They are also seeking an apology from all concerned, including the BBC. The struggle has involved lengthy and expensive court actions. It has also shown up the BBC in a continuing poor light. In December 2021, the BBC failed to mark the 50th anniversary of the bombing. When reminded of the omission, an online news report was belatedly published. The painstaking research into this incident alone justifies further investigation into the relationship between the BBC and the secret services of the state. There are plenty of similar cases that demand attention too
https://bjr.org.uk/who-says-the-bbc-doesnt-take-sides/

In marked shift from the past, Saudi textbooks no longer define Zionism as ‘racist,’ indicating progress towards a ‘warm peace’ such as that with the UAE, expert says

A study of Saudi school textbooks has found increased progress on the kingdom’s portrayal of Israel and Zionism, in continuation of a positive trend that has emerged in recent years.
Textbooks for the 2023-2024 school year no longer teach that Zionism is a “racist” European movement, and no longer deny the historical Jewish presence in the region, according to the study, published last week by the nonprofit IMPACT-se, which monitors educational curricula in Middle Eastern and North African countries.
“It’s a small step that shows a change of narrative towards Israel, and showcases more tolerance and openness,” said Nimrod Goren, who heads Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, to The Times of Israel.
Designations of Israel as an “enemy state” have been expunged, but references to the “Israeli occupation” can still be found, and the curriculum still underscores Saudi Arabia’s commitment to the Palestinian cause.
The name “Israel” still does not appear on maps, but the name “Palestine,” which previously covered the entirety of Israeli territory, has now been removed, the report highlights.
“It indicates that if the Saudis are heading towards normalization, they are doing it all in line with the model of the UAE and Bahrain,” Goren added, referencing diplomatic ties established with the two Gulf monarchies in the framework of the Abraham Accords in 2020. Goren is also a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute think tank in Washington.

Aiming for ‘warm peace’ with Saudis

Relations with the UAE and Bahrain have translated into cultural cooperation and people-to-people contacts, a so-called “warm peace,” in contrast to the “cold peace” reigning with Jordan and Egypt, two countries where public opinion is overwhelmingly antagonistic to Israel.
Saudi Arabia’s gradual opening began about a decade ago, Goren added. “The process resembles what the UAE and Bahrain were doing in the decade before the Abraham Accords, a very slow, gradual move that reflects tolerance and normalization of engagement, making it a more routine in terms of public perception,” he said.
“The UAE, for example, very much played the card of religious tolerance, with the construction of the Abrahamic Family House,” Goren added, referencing a building encompassing a mosque, a church and a synagogue in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi inaugurated in 2023. “That was an easy entry point to showcase a better perception of Israelis and Jews.”
Fostering religious tolerance appears to be the path followed by Saudi rulers to prepare public opinion for a possible new chapter in relations with Israel.
The study on Saudi textbooks found that antisemitism has been practically eradicated from the kingdom’s curriculum. In past years, Saudi students had been exposed to egregious examples of hate and incitement in textbooks, the report noted. “Examples which have since been removed included the characterization of Jews as treacherous individuals, and Qur’anic verses teaching that Jews turned into monkeys.”
Problematic content promoting violent jihad and martyrdom has also been removed in recent years, the report noted. Instead, a nonviolent interpretation of jihad is promoted as an individual struggle for personal betterment as opposed to armed struggle against non-Muslims.

Israel committing ‘continuous genocidal massacres’

Some of the most dramatic changes in Saudi attitudes towards Israel have occurred in the religious sphere and in relations with the Jewish world, with a delegation of US Jews visiting the kingdom in 2022 and Israeli communications minister Shlomo Karhi holding a prayer service in Riyadh days before October 7.
Furthermore, in 2022, Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the Saudi secretary general of the Muslim World League and a former minister of justice in the monarchy, led a Muslim delegation to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
However, steps towards normalization with Israel should not be perceived as a relinquishment of the Palestinian cause, an issue that still stirs strong emotions in large swaths of the Saudi public. The kingdom has issued repeated critical statements during Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas, underscoring its support for Palestinian civilians.
Last week, in perhaps its most strongly worded statement against Israel since the war broke out, the Saudi Foreign Ministry accused Israel of committing “continuous genocidal massacres” following an Israeli strike in Rafah in which dozens of civilians were killed.
Over the years, Saudi Arabia has shown itself willing to soften what it demanded from Israel in return for the establishment of diplomatic ties. While the Arab Peace Initiative it submitted in 2002 spoke of the establishment of a Palestinian state as a precondition for normalization, talks conducted last year before October 7 referred to a “pathway” to the creation of a Palestinian state, or “irreversible steps.”
“It’s a totally different demand for the sake of normalization,” said Goren. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused demands to commit to a credible path toward a future Palestinian state as part of the normalization talks.
Saudi Arabia largely removes negative portrayal of Israel from its school curriculum The Times of Israel

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transparency and anti-corruption reforms: NGOs' oversight over public procurement to become easier

Last week Pashinyan cabinet greenlighted an amendment to the public procurement process to allow journalists and NGOs to more easily observe the execution of the procurement process. Details in May 23 news.
FINANCE MINISTRY: The law was amended 2 years ago to grant this ability but not many NGOs and journalists have been using it because the process was cumbersome and required them to submit information, receive authorization, and contact the finance ministry. This reform will allow NGOs to submit paperwork and register with the ministry only once.
NGO INFORMED CITIZENS: This change allows us, without a warning, to go and observe the construction project in progress. If the construction is financed with public funds, with the exception of secret objects (e.g. army), it's possible for us to visit the site and even verify the width of the metal being used to ensure it meets the standards. In reality, this goes beyond improving transparency because it will serve as a preventative measure to discourage dishonest conduct by companies. //
FINANCE MINISTRY: We do not always have the capacity to properly oversee every construction project in its entirety, especially the large ones. Often the state's main role in these contracts is to be an intermediary between the construction company and the public. With this reform, we are allowing the public to join the supervision process. We expect this change to expose many problems and there is no culture of hiding the problems; the government regularly discusses them at the highest levels. //
NGO INFORMED CITIZENS: For example, students' parents can register an NGO and audit the quality of food served to their children in school.
REPORTER: Could this change discourage the participation of companies in public tenders?
NGO INFORMED CITIZENS: It won't discourage honest companies.
FINANCE MINISTRY: If a company is nervous about the increased public oversight, that means they have serious problems. This is a positive change for honest companies. Imagine you hire a construction worker to remodel your home and he doesn't want you to see what he is doing in your home. Would you trust that worker? The journalists and NGOs can get involved in an oversight process with up to 10 members each.
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the share of sole-source contracts has decreased during public procurement processes: government

REPORTER: The procurement volumes and the competition are both on the rise. Last year the state agencies (without counting state companies) signed contracts worth ֏307B. That's +11B vs 2022 and +66B vs 2021.
OFFICIAL: Of that ֏307B, ֏123B was spent on healthcare services and other natural monopolies where there is only one option. If we deduct those, we signed contracts worth ֏184B.
֏11B were signed under the condition of absence of competition and ֏11B under emergency.
As of May 1, the share of sole-source purchases:
2023: 12%
2024: 6%
National Center of Public Policy Research: If we count the state companies as well, the volume of contracts reaches ֏439B. Most of the Infrastructure Ministry contracts were competitive. The same cannot be said about the Healthcare Ministry and Interior Ministry; a significant share of those were non-competitive.
BUSINESSMAN (medical field): I'd say up to 90% of the time it's highly competitive and there are tens of companies competing. But then the hospital next to it, which uses almost the same products, announces a similar tender and only 2 are bidding. This is because there are loopholes that allow them to legally write the characteristics of the product in a way to allow only a specific company to win the bid.
OFFICIAL: Of the 125,000 submissions, only 109 were challenged. That is a very low number. Moreover, as for the complaints that the product description is sometimes intentionally meant to prevent the participation of other companies, we know this to be true, and we plan to address this with the ongoing legal reforms and the introduction of a new electronic procurement platform. The new platform will have standardized characteristics and the complaint that sometimes the characteristics are discriminatory will be addressed by the requirement for submitters to use a sample characteristic. The system will be automated and it will become impossible to deviate from the standards.
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Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission chief urges utility operators to trade at least part of their shares in local stock exchange

CHIEF: We held discussions with the Justice Ministry. The only issue in this case is related to Gazprom Armenia. It is necessary to understand whether this proposal would contradict the 2013 Armenian-Russian agreement on natural gas supplies, as it was ratified by both parliaments and is equal to a law by its status. //
The Armenian government has been subsidizing companies since 2023 for listing their shares on the local stock exchange to create an opportunity for them to raise financing from banks, shares and bonds.
PASHINYAN (February): We should apply favorable regimes for public companies that trade their shares on stock markets. The tax regimes will be less favorable for companies that do not go public. [The context was transparency and oversight in utility companies and telecom operators.]
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northern floods have dealt damage to Armenia's mining industry

MINISTER: Most of the mining concentrates are exported via rail, and if the consequences of the natural disaster are not remedied quickly, the mining industry will have massive problems. This is why we spare no effort to restore traffic ASAP with the partners from the South Caucasus Railway. //
Teghut's copper-molybdenum mine and combine have suspended their operations because the pumping station is damaged by the flood and so is the road leading to the site. Efforts are underway to fix both problems, said the company.
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drone video shows construction crews using soil and rocks to link two sections of the M6 highway that were split in multiple locations during the floods

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compilation of cleanup and restoration activities in northern Armenia: VIDEO

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disaster zone and Holy Struggle: Sunday's weekly review by H1's Petros Ghazaryan and Tigran Hakobyan

GHAZARYAN: I spent the last two days in the disaster zone. The situation is truly serious there, and we - in Yerevan - do not adequately see the seriousness of the damage. The first floors of the buildings in the Alaverdi region do not exist anymore. I don't see how they could become livable anymore, in addition to the seismic issue of entire buildings. [2.5 kilometers of] the railway has collapsed - one of the main forms of cargo transportation in Armenia. Almost all the bridges in the region have collapsed. Small businesses are hit hard.
HAKOBYAN: ... the orchards and household items.
GHAZARYAN: A 70-year-old man showed me water and said that's where his orchard once was; his retirement is gone. I think the damages are worth a few hundred million dollars. Parts of the M6 highway were simply washed away. From Dlijan to the border with Georgia in Bagratashen. When they say 1959 was the last time we experienced this, in reality, the water levels were high but there was no damage like this.
HAKOBYAN: Climate change is a contributing factor.
GHAZARYAN: We've seen floods in Russia lately but they aren't mountainous, their rivers gradually increase and engulf everything before gradually receding. In the case of mountainous rivers, they bring a massive flow at once and destroy everything before receding just as fast. What I liked in the disaster zone was the attitude of residents; they weren't disheartened, they were determined to rebuild. I visited many locations and in many of them, there was already a process of creating the inventory of lost items to receive compensation from the state. From refrigerators and TVs to pianos and furniture. The same about businesses.
But we have a parallel reality in Armenia - the Holy Struggle.
HAKOBYAN: We had a disastrous earthquake in 1988 during the early stages of the Karabakh [reunification] Movement. On the following day, the Karabakh Movement Committee declared the suspension of its activities against the government and urged its followers and everyone to support the restoration of the disaster zone. The same happened during the 4-day and 44-day wars when all political parties set aside their differences to address the most pressing issues.
This Holy Struggle is an exception. They don't speak about the disaster zone and haven't provided support. Bagrat Galstanyan mentioned once that he met Gagik Tsarukyan to ask him to support the disaster zone, but I think Tsarukyan would have done that even without having a tea party with Galstanyan.
I feel Spanish shame for the conduct of our journalists. When I worked as a young journalist in 1988, I spent a month in the disaster zone to cover the situation. Today, none of our so-called "patriotic media" has a presence in the disaster zone. We have TV channels where 100%, not even 99% but 100%, of the videos are propaganda coverage of the Holy Struggle.
Russians have an excellent saying that whatever you name your movement, that's what it turns into. The idea of holy struggle has historically been used by Christians and Muslims to fight against external enemies. I can't think of any other instances of a holy war being waged within Armenia against the segment of your own population that disagrees with you and your values. They similarly call this a National Liberation Movement, which again implies that a segment of the Armenian population is enemies because historically that term has been used against foreign adversaries. And what do you normally do to your enemy? You destroy them. The culmination of this rhetoric was the clash between Galstanyan and police in front of the foreign ministry building on Friday. This is headed to bloodshed and the state must do everything possible to prevent it.
GHAZARYAN: This movement is being aided 24/7 by media outlets created by Kocharyan and Serj. They don't go to the disaster zone or elsewhere, they are tasked with the holy mission of covering the holy struggle all day long.
HAKOBYAN: It's a PR campaign.
GHAZARYAN: Yes. They create beautiful montage clips of Galstanyan and his words, with music. They are serving Galstanyan as his media outlets. Are Kocharyan and Serj using their massive media apparatus, this pyramid of falsifications, for that purpose without an underlying reason?
Second. The Russian Sputnik media agency, whose official policy is to promote the interests of the Russian state, is engaged in a similar PR campaign for Galstanyan.
Russia's Channel One (ORT) does not sing without the approval of the Kremlin. They present a 20,000 rally as 100,000. Russian political experts describe this movement as their only hope and announce that if it fails, they will have no choice but to find a common language with Pashinyan and accept him. Some Russian figures complain about sending large sums to Armenian opposition forces who have failed to create a functioning movement.
The movement leaders don't talk a lot about foreign policy but they have announced a need to "restore" relations with Russia. What does "restoring" mean? It sounds benign but in order to restore the relations,
(1) Armenia must agree to allow Russian forces to stand on a Zangezur Corridor for Azerbaijan. That's what Russia demands.
(2) Armenia must kick out the EU border observers and replace them with Belarusian, Russian, or CIS observers. The same Belarus that congratulated Aliyev for capturing Karabakh with their joint efforts. Bring the Belarusian forces to Armenia.
(3) Cancel Armenia's weapons and army reform contracts with France.
(4) Do not diversify Armenia's economy. Do not implement the April 5 agreements and the massive aid from the US and EU.
(5) The institute of democratic elections is finally functioning in Armenia, so there is a need to "appoint" a governor of Armenian Gubernia to restore relations with Russia.
HAKOBYAN: Galstanyan doesn't understand anything about foreign policy and introduces a very dangerous thesis because of that. For example, he criticized the Armenian government for not responding to Aliyev's claims about Khojalu "genocide". In reality, the Armenian government has adopted the correct approach of denying the claims and dismissing and not aiding the false agenda pushed by the Aliyev regime. The case of Khojalu was closed but Galstanyan wants to revive it.
During the protests, Galstanyan also disclosed his skills for dealing with Armenia's centuries-old enemies. Aliyev, խելոք մնա behave. He thinks he can swing his finger at Azerbaijan and resolve Armenia's issues.
GHAZARYAN: He is tapping into the basic emotions of the Armenian population.
HAKOBYAN: But people need to understand that there can always be a government worse than a bad one. Everyone who has died since 1999 is a victim of a war that could have been avoided in 1997-98. The number of deaths must not increase because of the actions of one person. Galstanyan is prepared to sacrifice thousands of Armenians with his arrogancy.
GHAZARYAN: But there is a limit beyond which holding a rational discussion is impossible. When a person implies that the Lori-Tavush floods could have been casued by the government to disrupt the protests, it's impossible to hold a rational conversation, it's shameful.
HAKOBYAN: When they told him that several police officers were wounded during the Friday clashes, he suggested that the officers might have harmed themselves. The Friday incidnet was a watershed moment for me. This person is a danger to Armenia's statehood.
GHAZARYAN: He organized rallies without a result. He announced an impeachment against Pashinyan, which doesn't appear to have worked out since Ishkhan Zakaryan hasn't joined. He announced mass strikes and road closures across Armenia, but nothing worked out. Now, in order to prevent the protest from dying down, they have to cause provocations. He went in front of the foreign ministry and announced that he had received information that Turkey plans to send elite forces to Armenia to arrest him; he needed to discuss that with FM Mirzoyan. Unless you are totally blinded by your hatred towards Pahsinyan, you understand how absurd that is. //
Galstanyan described Petros Ghazaryan as a scoundrel "who has served every administration."
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Children's Day was celebrated in Armenia on June 1, not without drama 🍿

On May 31, protest co-leader Bagrat Galstanyan announced plans to hold a protest rally in Gyumri. On June 1, a concert in Gyumri dedicated to children was rescheduled and held an hour sooner, presumably before Galstanyan's caravan of cars reached the concert area. Galstanyan, who claimed they were visiting the concert "just to enjoy it", criticized the deputy education minister for rescheduling it, calling him "illiterate" and threatening his fate: "Հալտ կերևա։"
The deputy minister said the concert was held an hour sooner because of "scorching sunlight" and that children were already suffering from the heat because of hourslong rehearsal and preparatory work, and that rain was predicated 30 minutes into the original concert schedule. The deputy minister criticized Galstanyan for "politicizing" the children's event and for allegedly not allowing the church-affiliated group to perform.
DEPUTY MINISTER: We offered 3 groups to perform at 1 pm instead of 2 pm and they agreed. We made the same offer to the Tavush group [affiliated with the Church] as well. They connected me with their producer, who categorically rejected it. I met the producer and asked again but received a rejection the second time; they said they were waiting for a delegation from Yerevan. Since The children from Tavush were scheduled to give a short performance at the beginning of the show, they were unfortunately excluded from the concert. //
Despite Galstanyan's announcement that they didn't intend to politicize or disrupt the Gyumri concert, the church-affiliated musical group was reportedly seen chanting Galstanyan's protest slogans after his arrival.
The protest organizers held their rally in Gyumri as planned. Co-organizer ARF MP Garnik Danielyan urged the followers "not to back down" and "to go until the end".
GARNIK: Նահանջի տեղ չունենք, բոլորով գնալու ենք մինչև վերջ, մեր Շարժումը նոր հաջողություններ է գրանցում: // video
Police officers were seen distributing ice cream to children on June 1. Children read the audio announcements in the Yerevan subway. Mayor Avinyan read stories for children in English Park. A concert was organized in Yerevan.
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the final jihad is near, my friends

Bagrat Galstanyan will hold the next massive rally in Republic Square on June 9. The previous ones attracted 130,000 and 100,000 people, according to Galstanyan and Russian media outlets.
On Sunday evening, while listing the actions for Monday, Galstanyan said they would march towards the investigative committee building and demand answers about the detention of protesters, and if they don't receive the answers, Galstanyan said "we will be free to act."
The detained protesters were released without charges on Monday after being held for 72 hours after the Friday clashes with police in front of the foreign ministry building.
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Pashinyan administration will treat the Armenian Apostolic Church as a political party because of its politicization, says Pashinyan's Chief of Staff

HARUTYUNYAN: In 2018, PM Pashinyan offered to hold discussions between the Church and the Government to improve the Church's transparency in the areas of customs and contributions. Unfortunately, this dialogue did not take place because of the Church leadership. I won't rule out that it could become a topic of discussion again but today, when the Church leadership takes control of political processes, the ruling party and the government have to use political tools to engage with that organization [Church], and the response to Church is the same as to any other political group or political party engaged in a political process.
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court verdict: Serj-era deputy police chief Levon Yeranosyan is found guilty and sentenced to 4 years for misusing flashbang grenades against Pashinyan-led protesters in 2018

Yeranosyan's use of Zarya grenades caused injuries among 60 protesters and police officers, including now Parliament President Alen Simonyan and ruling QP MP Armen Mkrtchyan.
Yeranosyan won't have to serve the prison term because he qualifies for Pashinyan's mass amnesty. This is because the judge sentenced him under charges that entail 4 years and not the 8 years that the prosecutors sought. Prosecutors will appeal to get a stricter verdict.
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Prime Minister held a meeting with Archbishop: VIDEO

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Pashinyan and his wife dined at a restaurant in Sevan: PHOTO

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Pashinyan rode a bicycle on the streets over the weekened, greeting passersby and promoting the "eco-friendly method of transportation": VIDEO

The PM said he was surprised to see a traffic jam consisting of bicycles during his recent trip to Copenhagen. "It was inspiring and beautiful," he said while praising the popularity of cycling in other countries.
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amateur cycling tournament was held in Yerevan on World Bicycle Day: VIDEO

Hundreds of cyclists, including public officials and diplomats, took part in the event organized by Yerevan Municipality and the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Armenia.
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proposed bipartisan amendments to US National Defense Authorization Act seek closer US-Armenia security cooperation, end to US assistance to Azerbaijan, investigation of Azerbaijan's energy ties to Russia and Iran

1) Repeals waiver authority that allows the U.S. to send military assistance and other forms of aid to Azerbaijan while the Azeri government continues to target, abuse, and displace Armenians.
2) Calling on Azerbaijan to immediately return all Armenian Prisoners of War and captured civilians.
3) Directing the Defense Department to develop a strategy to strengthen U.S.-Armenia security cooperation and deter further Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia.
4) Commissioning a report on the energy partnership Azerbaijan has had with Russian and Iranian companies under international sanctions.
5) Prohibiting any new export licenses for offensive security equipment for Azerbaijan.
6) Requiring the Government Accountability Office to review and confirm Department of Defense and Department of State contingency plans for the repositioning of sensitive U.S. data and weapons systems that are in Turkey, including nuclear weapons and information related to the F-35 program.
These amendments will be considered by the Rules Committee as early as the week of June 10th.
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ex-PM Aram Sargsyan says the West is cautious and urged Armenia not to rush with the exit from Russia-led organizations

REPORTER: Russia has been critical of the Tavush delimitation process. In the past, they claimed the maps were in Moscow and they were ready to provide advisory assistance to parties.
SARGSYAN: Russia maintains its influence around the world by keeping the conflicts active and selling weapons to parties. The West, on the other hand, wants peace and open borders so there can be trade and investments; the West benefits from investments and raises its influence by promoting democracy.
REPORTER: Yerevan is talking about CSTO's "treason" at the highest levels today, and how at least 2 of the CSTO members took part in the preparatory phase of the 2020 war [to help Azerbaijan]. Have you ever advised Pashinyan to withdraw from CSTO?
SARGSYAN: I have, starting in November 2020, after the end of the war. The CSTO has been a topic during every meeting. Pashinyan always presented various arguments, sometimes objective ones, on why not to exit it, but here is the thing: Armenia has partners [West] that provide help during difficult times. These partners' [West's] conduct regarding the withdrawal from CSTO and EAEU, in terms of timeframes... they see it necessary in the long-term plan. During certain phases, there were cautious approaches, to be cautious and not provoke Russia. The thing is, no matter how much they [West] say don't do it [don't provoke Russia by withdrawing too early], you must be the one to do it; I think it will be welcomed [by the West]. Those who have always helped you, to say "no" to them must have serious justification, so Armenia must consult with Western partners regarding regional developments and bilateral processes, which is what's being done today, and if there is a need to say "no" for certain things, it must be strongly substantiated. I think Armenia must say "no" [to the West's cautious approach] and leave the CSTO. I'm confident that the U.S. and Macron won't get upset from that; that will be our own decision. I believe the risks are greater if Armenia remains part of CSTO and EAEU.
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Armenian officials visited the Ukrainian city of Bucha where the Russian army committed a massacre of civilians and POWs in 2022

Armenia's Ambassador Vladimir Karapetyan and the leader of Yerevan's Nor Nork district Tigran Ter-Margaryan visited Bucha.
DISTRICT CHIEF: We are proud of the courage of the Ukrainian people defending their freedom and independence on the battlefield. //
According to the Ukrainian press, the head of Nor Nork District said they will always support Bucha and other communities affected by Russian aggression.
The Armenian delegation donated medication to local medical centers as an act of solidarity.
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Chambers of Commerce of Armenia and Ukraine discussed the strengthening of business ties

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Yerevan Mayor Avinyan has invited Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko to visit the Armenian capital

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Iran's Red Crescent sent several trucks with humanitarian aid to northern Armenia affected by floods

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Australian lawmakers unanimously slam Azerbaijan, call for pro-Armenian measures

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what is the connection between the Lemkin Institute and ARF?

The Lemkin Institute recently made comments regarding the internal political processes in Armenia and observes have noticed similarities with ARF's language and agenda. The Lemkin Institute apparently did not see a need to respond to Pashinyan's April 24 statement, and only several weeks later, after the ARF-ed anti-Pashinyan protests began, the Institute released a statement accusing Pashinyan of "victim blaming" in his April 24 statement, a charge dismissed by the ruling party MPs as politically-motivated.
Armenian-American political analyst Nerses Kopalyan credited Lemkin Institute for the genocide-related work but accused it of political bias and being influenced by ARF to meddle in Armenia's internal affairs. The Lemkin Institute's director's husband is reportedly an ARF figure.
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U.S. Envoy Louis Bono visited Azerbaijan to discuss the AM-AZ peace process and US-AZ relations

Bono said the recent delimitation processes inspire hope and that the US is ready to support the negotiation process.
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Turkish officials call for Azerbaijan-Armenia peace treaty; Russia decries West's efforts to be a "mediator" and to increase its influence in Central Asia

MOD of TURKEY: Türkiye supports the genuine efforts of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the peace process. A comprehensive peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia is essential for achieving lasting peace and security in the South Caucasus. President Erdogan has highlighted the importance of seizing this historic opportunity for peace. I also welcome the recent statements by Prime Minister Pashinyan, who has shown the realistic approach needed for the future of Armenia and its people.
MOD of RUSSIA: Armenia and Azerbaijan are proposed to sign a peace treaty exclusively on Western platforms, and "mediator" services are imposed on them. NATO seeks to strengthen its positions in the Caucasus, to have access to the resources of the Caspian Sea, and direct access to Central Asia.
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Armenian authorities, EU, and NGOs teamed up to inform the public on how to avoid harming Lake Sevan: VIDEO

The education component for farmers, students, and residents of nearby communities is part of efforts to prevent the dumping of harmful materials into the lake.
The working groups traveled to various communities near the shores to meet the locals and investigate the reasons behind the pollution of River Gavaraget.
Additional nature protection materials will be introduced for 3rd, 8th, and 10th grade students in the province.
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music composer for Armenian television shows was found dead in Lake Sevan

The father of composer Anahit Mnatsakanyan called the police to report that his 24 y/o daughter visited a Sevan resort the previous night and that they hadn't been able to get in touch with her the following day. Her mother said the trip was a gift from them on her 25th birthday which was coming up on June 15.
The Water Patrol, divers, and VOMA sent multiple teams equipped with high-tech to locate her. The lifeless body was discovered 70 meters from the shore. An autopsy is underway.
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first truck arrives from Shanghai to Yerevan as part of Crossroads of Peace route: VIDEO

The cargo was loaded into a truck in China's Shanghai, transferred into another truck in Kazakhstan, and driven through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran, undergoing all necessary customs procedures.
TRANSPORT COMPANY (Gold Way): There were some issues that we managed to resolve quickly, so it took the cargo around 20 days to travel from Shanghai to Yerevan.
DRIVER: My name is Kayrat. I'm from Kazakhstan. I drove the cargo from China to Armenia. This is my first trip to Armenia. The road was of course very long. There were good and bad roads. Armenian roads travel through very high hills. It took me 20 days to reach Armenia.
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Mayor Tigran Avinyan discussed sex trafficking during the Monday session

Yerevan Zoo's Bunka the elephant needs to have sex so the city has been discussing various options to organize his dating life.
On Monday a city official reported that animal rights activists have suggested flying Bunka to Cambodia for some action, or enlarging the enclosure and bringing a female to Yerevan. The city has settled for the second option.
The enlargement process began last year but not a single company submitted a bid. The second procurement attempt will launch next week and there appears to be an interested party. The city hopes to launch the construction this year.
Mayor Avinyan instructed city officials to keep the topic of Bunka the elephant at the center of attention.
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other Yerevan news

• Air quality sensors will feed data to Yerevan's new GIS system, allowing residents to check the PM2.5 levels in various districts.
• 500 disability ramps will be built this year. The standards were updated to make them comfortable.
• 9 special elevators will be installed in public places for persons with disabilities. This includes underground passages.
• 1,700 cameras will be installed in kindergartens to detect and prevent abuse.
• The Municipality will soon discuss a possible ban on musicians who perform on the street in Republic Square, Northern Avenue, and Opera areas. Reasons: residents of condo buildings and businesses complain about disturbed peace and "damage to tourism".
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40,500 people became citizens of Armenia in 2022-2023

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the Government and the ruling party discussed a strategy to improve demographic numbers

RULING MP: What is being done to improve the demographics, increase the population, reduce the boy-to-girl birth ratio, or maybe even invite and assimilate foreigners to address the gap with the help of immigration?
LABOR & SOCIAL MINISTER: We've been developing a demographics strategy for the last 2 years. It was disrupted twice: in 2022 because of the Ukraine war, and in 2023 because of the flow of forcibly displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh. We took a short break to analyze the new data and create various models.
The strategy was developed after comprehensive discussions. As an adviser, we chose the Wittgenstein Centre in Vienna, one of the best in the world. At least 2 of the 5 best international experts in this field participated in the process of developing this strategy. The Charles University of Prague ran the models.
During one of the discussions, 3 directions were presented for the improvement of demographics. The birth rates will continue to decline globally in developed and developing countries. These days the term "strategy of demography" is being replaced with "population strategy" because the issue isn't just with birth rate.
So there were 3 directions for growth:
(1) The states must use their potential to encourage people to decide to have more children. This can happen by balancing the population, and through various methods, decided by each country.
(2) Migration. This is inevitable in any country and it must be controlled. We need to understand what types of migrants we want and how to integrate them as Armenian citizens.
(3) The population is aging in rich and poor countries. Armenia must have programs for active aging so people can continue to create value as they age, to maintain their role in the economy. For example, we recently amended the labor code to remove a barrier for senior workers.
But we added another factor during those discussions:
(4) Early mortality. We added this to ensure our strategy is as comprehensive as possible.
We have meticulously discussed and prepared 170 different programs that will be adopted by August.
For example, since today's topic is migration, one of the issues is the language barrier. We've studied the European practice. If they expect to organize the reception of the migrant workforce from a specific country, they have a language institution in that country. This can be done with Cervantes Institution, Goethe Institut, etc. Future migrants study the language and culture of those countries. That program is also on the agenda.
Another topic is the gender disbalance at birth. The 2022 ratio was better than the 2023, in part because in 2021-2022 there was a widespread public awareness campaign. We should return to that practice.
The comprehensive Demographics Strategy will require one more session before it's submitted for approval. We recently discussed the financial component during a Government meeting, which will approve it by July.
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1,100 families are building new houses in communities near the borders as part of a state subsidy program

The government's ֏16 million subsidy program is meant to discourage emigration from border villages. Families are able to upsize their living space and expand their families.
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Nikol Pashinyan chairs consultations on Academic City master plan

The German architects presented the changes implemented in the master plan based on the observations and recommendations of the previous discussion and noted that the final conceptual master plan will be presented in the near future.
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army's special forces units held exercises in the presence of army leadership, High-Tech Minister, and Defense Minister: VIDEO

The video shows the use of a domestic suicide drone to destroy a dummy tank. Several military industry companies presented their products that are already in use in the army.
Which forces took part? Special forces, artillery and mortar, anti-tank, aviation, air defense, drone and radio-electronic warfare. They played various scenarios for defense and counter-attack.
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DAY: June 3 2024
6-3-2024

AIRPLANE NOISE EXPOSURE MAY INCREASE RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASE

Locations of 90 study airports in the United States symbolized by quartiles of participants pooled from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and NHSII living around each airport. Increasing point sizes are proportional to the increasing quartiles of study participants from the pooled sample of NHS and NHSII living within 22.2 miles (35.7 km) of each study airport at baseline. States are outlined and colors indicate each of four U.S. Census regions. The 100th meridian west of the Prime Meridian denotes the boundary between arid and humid areas.
6-3-2024

NEW MACHINE LEARNING METHOD CAN BETTER PREDICT SPINE SURGERY OUTCOMES

Researchers who had been using Fitbit data to help predict surgical outcomes have a new method to more accurately gauge how patients may recover from spine surgery. Using machine learning techniques developed at the AI for Health Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, Chenyang Lu, the Fullgraf Professor in the university’s McKelvey School of Engineering, collaborated with Jacob Greenberg, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine, to develop a way to predict recovery more accurately from lumbar spine surgery. The results published in the journal Proceedings
6-3-2024

PEDIATRICIAN SUGGESTS FIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE A PLAYDATE

Playdates are a fun way for children to develop friendships and learn important social skills. Visiting another family’s home will also expose your child to a new environment. Before the playdate, it’s a good idea to talk with the other parent about household habits, rules and expectations. It’s also a great opportunity to share any important details about your child? like a food allergy, pet allergy or other health issues. Here are a few important questions to ask: 1. Who will be watching the children? Will a parent be home,
6-3-2024

UNDERSTANDING HOW THE BRAIN CONTROLS SOCIAL GAZE

For animals such as primates, the act of gazing plays a key role in social interaction, used to both send and gather information. In a new study, Yale scientists uncover two brain regions that contribute to this type of social attention. The findings yield important insight into how this dynamic behavior arises and might be used to boost social behavior in disorders like autism in which engaging in social attention can be challenging, researchers say. The findings were published May 31 in the journal Neuron.
6-3-2024

WHY YOU MAY NOT BE GETTING THE BENEFITS YOU EXPECTED FROM MINDFULNESS

You’ve probably seen the word mindfulness everywhere these days, from the news, to magazines, to social media. Mindfulness is sometimes packaged as a mental health cure-all, and studies do suggest that mindfulness-based therapies support mental health. Your friends or family may even have told you that mindfulness has changed their lives. But if you have tried mindfulness and feel like it isn’t working for you, our developmental psychology research might explain why. In our recent study, we have found that being highly mindful may not be beneficial for all. Instead,
6-3-2024

MOST SLEEP TIPS SHARED ON TIKTOK ARE SUPPORTED BY SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

A new study found that most sleep tips shared on TikTok are supported by empirical evidence. The research findings show that of 35 unique sleep tips shared in popular videos, there was empirical support for 29. Only six sleep tips were unsupported by scientific evidence. “These results suggest that the sleep research and sleep medicine communities have done a good job of promoting appropriate tips for sleep hygiene,” said lead
6-3-2024

DOES SLEEP CLEAR MORE TOXINS FROM THE BRAIN THAN WHEN WE’RE AWAKE? LATEST RESEARCH CASTS DOUBT ON THEORY

There’s no doubt sleep is good for the brain. It allows different parts to regenerate and helps memories stabilize. When we don’t get enough sleep, this can increase stress levels and exacerbate mental health issues. Evidence also supports the notion that the brain gets rid of more toxic waste when we’re asleep than when we’re awake. This process is believed to be crucial in getting rid of potentially harmful things such as amyloid, a protein whose build-up in the brain is linked to Alzheimer’s disease. However, a recent study in
6-3-2024

‘PLACEBO’ OR ‘SHAM’ SURGERY IS NOT A CRUEL TRICK—IT CAN BE VERY EFFECTIVE

Ten years ago, a scan showed that I had torn the meniscus in my knee. The pain was bad and I was limping a lot of the time. My doctor recommended arthroscopic knee surgery to fix it. Being scared of scalpels, I asked whether there were other options. He said I could try physiotherapy, but that it was unlikely to work. I tried the physio and did the recommended exercises diligently, and my knee pain and function returned to almost normal. I even ran my first (and only) marathon a
6-3-2024

WHY, FOR SOME, PSYCHOTHERAPY MIGHT BE A BETTER TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION THAN DRUGS

During a psychotherapy session, one of my patients reported to me that the antidepressants he’d been prescribed by his GP had “killed his desire.” He felt “dead inside,” he told me. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an isolated case. I’ve heard similar descriptions of the effects of antidepressants from many patients. Many say they feel like “zombies.” However, some patients report that these drugs are helpful—even essential—in the management of their mental health. Antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and popular anti-anxiety medication benzodiazepines can offer
6-3-2024

INTOXICATION WITHOUT ALCOHOL: AUTO-BREWERY SYNDROME

How can someone have alcohol intoxication without consuming alcohol? Auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut fungi create alcohol through fermentation, is described in a case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “Auto-brewery syndrome carries substantial social, legal, and medical consequences for patients and their loved ones,” writes Dr. Rahel Zewude, University of Toronto, with co-authors. “Our patient had several [emergency department] visits, was assessed by internists and psychiatrists, and was certified under the Mental Health Act before receiving a diagnosis of auto-brewery syndrome, reinforcing how awareness of
6-3-2024

WHAT ARE MINDFULNESS POTENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS?

Can mindfulness meditation be good medicine for both mental and physical ills? Yes, says one expert who explains the practice and what conditions it might help. A particular form of mindfulness that focuses on pleasure has been shown to work as well as a starting dose of a narcotic for pain and better than traditional psychotherapy for substance abuse, said Eric Garland, director of the University of Utah’s Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development. But the meditation style may work for more than just chronic pain and addiction.
6-3-2024

CRACKING THE AGING CODE: INSIGHTS INTO LIPID CHANGES

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) have discovered numerous age-related changes in the lipid metabolism of mice, across both organs and sexes. Among these changes was the selective accumulation, throughout the body, of certain lipids produced by gut bacteria as the mice aged. They also discovered a sex difference in the kidneys and a gene responsible for it. Published in Nature Aging, this study could lead to better understanding of
6-3-2024

THE FDA WILL SOON WEIGH IN PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS

Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives. Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed herself and two others, Tipton said she endured layers of trauma that eventually forced her to seek treatment for crippling anxiety and hypervigilance. For 10 years nothing helped, and she began to wonder if she was “unfixable.” Then she answered an ad for a clinical trial for MDMA-assisted therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Tipton said
6-3-2024

ZYN IS FOLLOWING BIG TOBACCO’S PLAYBOOK FOR TEENS

Zyn’s synthetic nicotine offers the kick of a cigarette or dip without the cancer-causing smoke and chemicals of tobacco, packaged in a pouch that can be discreetly tucked into the upper lip. But that doesn’t mean they’re risk-free. Very little is known about how nicotine pouches could affect health or addiction trends in the U.S. Moreover, tobacco companies are selling the products in dosages and flavors that seem very clearly designed to appeal to younger users, even though buyers are supposed to be at least 21. Even without a ton
6-3-2024

EARLY MENOPAUSE LINKED TO GREATER RISK FOR BREAST, AND POSSIBLY OVARIAN CANCER

Some women who experience menopause early—before age 40—have an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, according to research being presented at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Boston, Mass. “There is also higher risk of breast, prostate and colon cancer in relatives of these women,” said Corrine Welt, M.D., chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City, Utah. Welt and colleagues began the study with the hypothesis that some women with primary ovarian insufficiency and
6-3-2024

BE READY FOR STORM SEASON

by Tia R. Ford, Mayo Clinic News Network Each hurricane season, it is critical to take proactive steps to protect yourself, your family and your property. Hurricanes and other severe storm events can be devastating, but with proper preparation, you can minimize risks and stay safe. This year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service forecasters predict an 85% chance for above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic throughout the season beginning June 1 and ending Nov. 30. Taking time to prepare in advance of severe weather can help
6-3-2024

TYPE OF WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY WOMEN UNDERGO BEFORE PREGNANCY MAY INFLUENCE CHILDREN’S WEIGHT GAIN

The type of weight loss surgery women undergo before becoming pregnant may affect how much weight their children gain in the first three years of life, suggests a study presented at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Boston, Mass. Researchers found children born to women who underwent the bariatric procedure known as sleeve gastrectomy before they became pregnant gain more weight per month on average in the first three years of life compared with children born to women who had the less common Roux-en-Y gastric bypass weight loss
6-3-2024

WHAT IS BLADED BEEF? MECHANICALLY TENDERIZED STEAKS SHOULDN’T BE EATEN RARE, FOOD POLICY EXPERT EXPLAINS

For many steak lovers, nothing says summer like a tender slice of beef seared to a dark gloss on the outside while remaining juicy red on the inside. But when it comes to steaks and roasts labeled “blade tenderized” or “mechanically tenderized,” rare is not the best option, says Northeastern food policy expert Darin Detwiler. People who consume mechanically tenderized steaks rare are more susceptible to developing food-borne illness from E. coli or salmonella contamination, he says. Consumers can’t tell by looking at beef products whether they are blade or
6-3-2024

STUDY FINDS TIMING OF BRAIN WAVES SHAPES THE WORDS WE HEAR

The timing of our brain waves shapes how we perceive our environment. We are more likely to perceive events when their timing coincides with the timing of relevant brain waves. Lead scientist Sanne ten Oever and her co-authors set out to determine whether neural timing also shapes speech perception. Is the probability of speech sounds or words encoded in our brain waves and is this information used to recognize words? The team first created
6-3-2024

BENEFITS OF AN ACTIVE WORKSTATION

For the millions of people who sit at a desk for long hours at a time, day after day, you may want to stand up for this. Mayo Clinic research shows that using an active workstation can help you move more and think better at work — without affecting your job. Sitting too much at work or home can increase your risk of certain diseases, says Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and senior author of a study on the topic. “Sitting for eight hours or more a day
6-3-2024

NICOTINE MARKETING STILL TARGETS ADOLESCENTS JUST AS IT DID DECADES AGO, SAYS RESEARCHER

About 37 million children ages 13 to 15 around the world use tobacco, according to a 2024 report from the World Health Organization. In 2023, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product in the U.S., with 7.7% of middle school and high school students reporting e-cigarette use. Cigarettes were the next most common, with 1.6% of middle- and high school students saying they had consumed them in the past month. Research shows that most people who use tobacco start in childhood. I am a public health researcher who studies
6-3-2024

LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN REDUCES INFLAMMATION CAUSED BY SLEEP LOSS

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, June 1–5, found that low-dose acetylsalicylic acid, also known as aspirin, can reduce inflammatory responses to sleep restriction. Results show that compared with placebo, preemptive administration of low-dose aspirin during sleep restriction reduced pro-inflammatory responses. Specifically, aspirin reduced interleukin-6 expression and COX-1/COX-2 double positive cells in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes, as well as C-reactive protein serum levels. “The novelty of this study is that it investigated whether we can pharmacologically reduce the inflammatory consequences of sleep
6-3-2024

NEW STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON THE EFFECTS OF HUMOR IN MEDICAL PRACTICES

A humorous remark at just the right time can go a long way. Benevolent humor helps medical assistants (MAs) cope positively with their stressful working day, according to a new study published in BMC Primary Care by the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The researchers surveyed more than 600 MAs to find out how they experience their work and what
6-3-2024

FDA WARNS OF BACTERIAL AND OTHER DANGERS FROM RECALLED INFANT FORMULA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning parents about a goat milk infant formula potentially tainted with a bacterium that’s very dangerous to babies. Crecelac brand formula, already under recall since May 24, could contain Cronobacter, which “can cause bloodstream and central nervous system infections, such as sepsis and meningitis” in infants, the FDA warned in a statement issued Friday. Two other Farmalac brands are also being recalled because they failed to meet FDA safety regulations. The three recalled brands are: CRECELAC INFANT Powdered Goat Milk Infant Formula with
6-3-2024

SCIENTISTS DEVELOP AI TOOL TO PREDICT HOW CANCER PATIENTS WILL RESPOND TO IMMUNOTHERAPY

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses routine clinical data, such as that from a simple blood test, to predict whether someone’s cancer will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy drug that helps immune cells kill cancer cells. The machine-learning model may help doctors determine if immunotherapy drugs are effective for treating a patient’s cancer. The study, published June 3, 2024, in Nature
6-3-2024

A DARK SIDE TO DARK CHOCOLATE? NEW STUDY FINDS VERY MINIMAL RISK FOR KIDS FROM METALS IN CHOCOLATES

Chocolate lovers may have been alarmed by a 2023 Consumer Reports finding that some dark chocolate brands could contain harmful levels of lead and cadmium. However, a new study by Tulane University published in Food Research International has found that dark chocolate poses no adverse risk for adults and contains nutritionally beneficial levels of essential minerals. The study sampled 155 dark and milk chocolates from various global brands sold in the United States and tested for the presence of 16 heavy metals ranging from the toxic (lead and cadmium) to
6-3-2024

LACK OF INSURANCE KEEPS MANY AMERICANS FROM BEST CANCER MEDS

A cutting-edge class of drugs is saving and extending the lives of cancer patients. But the drugs, called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), are so expensive that some uninsured Americans can’t access them, a new report finds. New policies are needed “to improve health insurance coverage options and to make new treatments more affordable,” the American Cancer Society (ACS) said in a news release outlining the findings. The study was led by ACS researcher Dr. Jingxuan Zhao. Her team presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Society of
6-3-2024

UNDERSTANDING RISKS AND NEED FOR URGENT TREATMENT

It’s always important to prioritize health by participating in stroke risk screenings. These assessments offer invaluable insights into personal health profiles, enabling you to address potential risk factors head-on. Through simple measures such as monitoring blood pressure, measuring cholesterol levels, and adopting healthier lifestyle choices, you have the opportunity to dramatically reduce your susceptibility to stroke. Whether accessed online, in public programs, or through primary care providers, these screenings can provide proactive steps towards a healthier future. As we delve deeper into stroke awareness, it’s imperative to familiarize yourself with
6-3-2024

STUDY FINDS THAT OLDER ADULTS WITH SLEEP APNEA HAVE HIGHER ODDS OF HOSPITALIZATION

A new study found that sleep apnea is associated with increased odds of future utilization of health care services including hospitalization among older adults. Results show that participants aged 50 years and older with sleep apnea had a 21% higher odds of reporting future use of any health service compared with those without sleep apnea. Specifically, individuals with sleep apnea had 21% higher odds
6-3-2024

STUDY FINDS MORE WOMEN IN OIL-RICH GULF COUNTRIES BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER

Breast cancer incidence has surged in the oil-rich Gulf (GCC) states, with the disease developing its own localized clinical and pathological features, setting them apart from those found in women with breast cancer in western countries, a study published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology finds. The study attributes the hike to the nature of menstrual cycle of women in these countries, hereditary factors, weaning children earlier than expected, prevalence of hormonal treatment, obesity, and use of contraceptives. The research is authored by a panel of nine oncologists from four
6-3-2024

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS WANT THIS INFORMATION BEFORE PRESCRIBING THE HIV PREVENTION, PREP, TO ADOLESCENTS, STUDY FINDS

HIV infections among adolescents and young adults continue to be at high levels, with Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 accounting for approximately 20% of all new HIV infections in 2019. However, uptake of a preventive regimen known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in this group remains low. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2012, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV when taken as directed and reduces the risk of HIV from sex by 99% and from injection drug use by 74%. A new
6-3-2024

EXPENSIVE, DANGEROUS AND VERY ‘EN VOGUE’

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6-3-2024

HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN TELEMEDICINE AND IN-PERSON CARE

A patient sits in the living room of her apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a telemedicine video conference with a physician on Jan. 14, 2019. Patients can now see an array of doctors without leaving their recliner thanks to telemedicine. But that doesn’t mean trips to the office should end. Finding the right balance between virtual and in-person visits can be a key to getting good care.
6-3-2024

MANY PFAS FOREVER CHEMICALS ARE TOXIC—HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THEM

From non-stick frying pans to stain-resistant sofas, some of the most innovative everyday products are made using chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These “forever chemicals”—so-called because they don’t degrade—have been used in a variety of consumer and commercial applications since the 1950s. They can repel water and oil, resist high temperatures and act as “surfactants” by helping different types of liquids mix. There are around 15,000 different PFAS chemicals. Each one has a slightly different chemical composition, but they all have at least two carbon-fluorine bonds.

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ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE Faraday Future is the pioneer of the Ultimate AI TechLuxury ultra spire market in the intelligent EV era, and the disruptor of the traditional ultra-luxury car civilization epitomized by Ferrari and Maybach. FF is not just an EV company, but also a software-driven intelligent internet company. Ultimately FF aims to become a User Company by offering a shared intelligent mobility ecosystem.
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Imagine a future where transportation is not only sustainable but also intelligent, efficient, and luxurious. Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (FFIE) is at the forefront of this revolution, and we invite you to be part of this exciting journey by investing in FFIE stock.
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Unmatched Growth Potential!!!
The global electric vehicle (EV) market is expected to grow from $287 billion in 2021 to $1.3 trillion by 2028, driven by increasing demand for cleaner transportation and supportive government policies . FFIE is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this growth with its innovative electric vehicle technologies.
Proven Innovation
Faraday Future has a strong track record of innovation, demonstrated by our extensive patent portfolio. We hold over 660 patents that cover critical areas of electric vehicle technology, ensuring our competitive edge. Here are a few notable patents:

• Variable Platform Architecture (VPA): This patent (US Patent No. 10,423,732) allows for a flexible vehicle platform that can accommodate various battery sizes and configurations. This adaptability enables FFIE to efficiently produce multiple vehicle models from the same basic architecture, reducing production costs and time to market. • Proprietary Battery Technology: Our patents in battery management systems (e.g., US Patent No. 10,931,569) cover innovations in optimizing battery life and performance. This includes faster charging times, longer driving ranges, and improved safety through advanced thermal management and energy density optimization. • Smart Driving Systems: FFIE’s autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are backed by patents such as US Patent No. 10,872,896. These patents cover innovations in sensor fusion, machine learning algorithms, and real-time data processing, enhancing vehicle safety and driving experience. • User-Centric Interface and Connectivity: Patents like US Patent No. 10,726,234 focus on providing an unparalleled in-car experience through intuitive touchscreens, voice recognition, and seamless connectivity with smart devices, ensuring our vehicles meet the high expectations of modern consumers. • Integrated AI and Machine Learning: FFIE holds patents (e.g., US Patent No. 10,982,003) for integrating AI and machine learning into vehicle systems, enabling predictive maintenance, personalized user experiences, and enhanced vehicle performance through continuous learning and adaptation. • Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Our patents in this area (e.g., US Patent No. 10,624,283) cover innovative methods for assembling electric vehicles, including robotics and automation techniques that enhance production efficiency and quality control. 

Environmental Impact
Investing in FFIE means supporting a company dedicated to reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainable transportation. Studies show that companies with strong environmental initiatives are more likely to achieve long-term success .
Current Investment Opportunity
As of today, FFIE’s stock is trading at $.64 per share. This price represents a unique entry point, as industry analysts predict substantial growth potential driven by our technological advancements and market expansion. Missing out on this opportunity could mean forgoing significant financial gains.
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FFIE’s cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships are set to drive significant financial gains. Our partnerships with leading tech firms and suppliers ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation, giving us a competitive edge in the EV market.
Expert Leadership
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (FFIE) boasts a robust and experienced executive team dedicated to steering the company towards success in the competitive electric vehicle market. Here are some key members:

1. Matthias Aydt - Global Chief Executive Officer: Matthias Aydt was appointed as the Global CEO in September 2023. Prior to this, he held various significant roles within FFIE, including Senior Vice President of Business Development and Product Definition. Aydt has extensive experience in the automotive industry, having worked with Qoros Auto and Magna Steyr before joining Faraday Future in 2016. His background in vehicle engineering and business development positions him well to lead the company.
   
2. Scott Graziano - Global General Counsel: Scott Graziano joined Faraday Future as the Global General Counsel. He brings extensive legal experience with U.S. public companies, which is crucial for navigating the regulatory and compliance landscape. Graziano’s expertise will support FFIE’s strategic initiatives and corporate governance .
   
3. Jin Hua - Vice President of Supply Chain: Jin Hua is responsible for overseeing FFIE’s supply chain operations. His role involves ensuring the seamless integration of the supply chain to support the company’s manufacturing and distribution goals. With the EV industry heavily dependent on efficient supply chains, Hua’s role is critical to FFIE’s operational success .
   
4. Marco Mattiacci - Global Chief Brand & Commercial Officer: Marco Mattiacci, a former executive at Ferrari, leads FFIE’s branding and commercial strategy. His expertise in luxury automotive branding is instrumental in positioning FFIE’s products in the market and driving global brand recognition .
   
5. Bob Kruse - Chief Technical Officer: Bob Kruse oversees the technical and engineering aspects of Faraday Future’s product development. With a rich background in automotive engineering, Kruse’s leadership ensures that FFIE continues to innovate and develop cutting-edge EV technologies .
   

This team combines a diverse set of skills and experiences, from engineering and product development to legal and supply chain management, all critical for Faraday Future’s ambition to become a leader in the electric vehicle market. For more detailed information about the executive team and their backgrounds. You can see the investor relations page here. https://ff.gcs-web.com/management/mr-matthias-aydt
Our executive team comprises seasoned professionals with extensive experience in the automotive and technology industries. Their expertise ensures FFIE is not just keeping pace but leading the industry. Research by McKinsey & Company (2022) indicates that companies with experienced leadership teams are more likely to outperform their competitors .
Market Demand
The demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is indeed at an all-time high, driven by a combination of consumer interest in sustainable transportation and strong government policies promoting the shift to electric mobility.
In 2021, global EV sales surged to 6.6 million units, marking a 109% increase from the previous year. This remarkable growth was fueled by advancements in battery technology, increased availability of charging infrastructure, and a broader range of EV models becoming available on the market.
Continued Growth Projections:
The trend towards electric vehicles is not just a short-term spike; it is expected to continue and even accelerate in the coming years. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the number of electric cars, buses, vans, and heavy trucks on roads worldwide is expected to reach 145 million by 2030 under current policies and trends. This figure could rise further to 230 million if governments accelerate their efforts to reach climate goals.
Consumer Preferences:
A key driver of this demand is the growing consumer preference for environmentally friendly transportation options. Surveys consistently show that consumers are increasingly considering the environmental impact of their vehicle choices. The decline in the cost of EVs, thanks to advancements in battery technology and economies of scale, is making them more accessible to a broader audience .
Government Policies:
Government policies are playing a critical role in this shift. Many countries have set ambitious targets for phasing out internal combustion engine vehicles and are offering incentives for EV purchases, such as tax credits, rebates, and exemptions from tolls and parking fees. For instance, the European Union aims to have at least 30 million zero-emission vehicles on its roads by 2030, while the United States has reintroduced tax credits for EV buyers and set targets for a substantial increase in EV market share .
Infrastructure Development:
The expansion of charging infrastructure is another crucial factor supporting the growth of EVs. Governments and private companies are investing heavily in building more charging stations, making it more convenient for consumers to charge their vehicles. The development of fast-charging networks is particularly important, as it addresses one of the main concerns consumers have about EVs: range anxiety .
Faraday Future’s Positioning:
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (FFIE) is well-positioned to capitalize on these trends. With its focus on innovative technology, extensive patent portfolio, and strategic partnerships, FFIE is poised to be a significant player in the EV market. The company’s ability to adapt to consumer preferences, leverage government incentives, and contribute to the expansion of charging infrastructure makes it a compelling investment opportunity .
In summary, the sustained and growing demand for electric vehicles, driven by consumer preferences, government policies, and infrastructure development, creates a favorable environment for companies like Faraday Future. As the market continues to expand, FFIE’s innovative approach and strategic positioning offer substantial potential for growth and profitability .
Sources:

1. EV Sales Surge in 2021 2. IEA Global EV Outlook 3. Consumer Preferences for EVs 4. Government Policies Driving EV Adoption 5. Expansion of Charging Infrastructure 6. Faraday Future’s Market Position 

Take Action Now
Invest in FFIE today and be part of a transformative journey. Visit https://investors.ff.com to learn more about our financial performance, strategic vision, and how you can invest. With our stock at [$.64], now is the perfect time to secure your share in the future of sustainable and intelligent transportation. Don’t miss this golden opportunity.
Thank you for your taking the time to read this.
Sources:

1. Bloomberg. “Jeff Bezos Paid No Taxes and Lived Off Loans.” Available at: Bloomberg. 2. ProPublica. “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.” Available at: ProPublica. 3. Fortune Business Insights. “Electric Vehicle Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis.” Available at: Fortune Business Insights. 4. Deloitte. “Sustainability and Performance.” Available at: Deloitte. 5. McKinsey & Company. “Why Experienced Leadership Matters.” Available at: McKinsey & Company. 6. International Energy Agency (IEA). “Global EV Outlook 2022.” Available at: IEA. 

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As we continue to observe Men's Health Month, I want to take this opportunity to delve deeper into a topic that affects all of us, directly or indirectly: men's mental health and its profound impact on leadership. This week’s focus is particularly on fostering mental health awareness and breaking the silence that often surrounds men's emotional well-being.
Why Men's Mental Health?
Men's mental health has long been a subject shrouded in societal stigma, leading many to suffer in silence. In leadership roles, the repercussions of untreated mental health issues can extend far beyond the individual, affecting decision-making, employee relationships, and overall organizational health. Addressing mental health is not just about treatment—it's about building a foundation of resilience, understanding, and proactive management.
The Leadership Connection
Effective leadership isn’t just about strategies and decisions; it’s fundamentally about people, including the leader themselves. Leaders who acknowledge their mental health struggles and take steps to improve their well-being set a powerful example for their teams. They create environments where openness and vulnerability are valued as strengths. This, in turn, fosters a culture of trust and psychological safety, which are cornerstones of innovative and adaptive organizations.
Strategies for Improvement
Education and Awareness: Leaders can initiate programs to educate themselves and their teams about mental health. Understanding the signs of mental distress and the resources available can make a significant difference in early intervention. Professional Support: Encouraging the use of professional counseling and support services, and making them accessible without stigma, can change lives. Leadership can play a crucial role by incorporating mental health benefits and support into company policies. Peer Support Networks: Creating peer support networks within the workplace can provide a less formal means of support, encouraging team members to look out for one another in a structured yet personal way. Mindfulness and Well-being Practices: Integrating practices such as mindfulness, meditation, or even regular physical activity into the work schedule can help improve mental as well as physical health. Conclusion
As we discuss and explore men's mental health this month, it's vital to remember that this is not just a topic for June—it's a year-round commitment. By fostering an environment where mental health is openly supported and valued, leaders can not only enhance their effectiveness but also contribute to a more compassionate, understanding, and productive workplace.
I’m eager to hear your thoughts and experiences regarding mental health in leadership. How do you or your organization handle these challenges? What strategies have you found effective?
Let’s turn this into a constructive dialogue that can help us all grow and learn together.

Operation Sea Lion is launched and is an immediate success.
Nazi Germany has won the Battle of Britain. England lies defenceless, the RAF is utterly defeated. The Nazi hordes swarm across the channel and although they are met with fierce resistance, British morale is low and without air support the British Army is overwhelmed and defeated in a shockingly quick time.
London is encircled and Churchill surrenders. He is sent to the Tower of London and held, awaiting trial as a war criminal.
The King and the Royal Family are smuggled out of the country on one of the last boats to leave a free Britain, bound for Canada.
Meanwhile, in Walmington-on-Sea, the Home Guard, a motley collection of old men; sickly mummies-boys; medical exemptions and conscientious objectors are the small seaside town’s last and only line of defence. The order comes down the line to surrender but the Platoon’s leader, a crazed patriot called Captain George Mainwaring, refuses to acknowledge this and orders his men to fight on, if need be, to the death, rather than laying down their arms.
Accepting that his men have little chance in facing down battle hardened SS troops and Panzers, Mainwaring orders his men to quickly forage for as many supplies and weapons as possible and to head for the countryside from where he intends to fight a guerrilla war, causing as much disruption to the enemy as possible.
Realising that this means certain death, private Joe Walker immediately surrenders to the civil authorities – the local police constable – and accepts the cease fire. The Nazi tanks roll into Walmington and the SS and Gestapo quickly establish order. Mainwaring convenes a court-martial in secret in Walker’s absence and imposes the death penalty. At the same meeting, a death list of local collaborators and Quislings is drawn up who must be executed at the earliest opportunity. Among those earmarked for death are The Vicar (Rev Timothy Farthing), The verger (Maurice Yeatman), The Air raid Warden (William Hodges) who have collaborated with the Nazis by supplying them with comforting religious services and fresh vegetables from Hodges’ greengrocer shop.
Mainwaring orders one of his crack troops – Lance Corporal Jack Jones - to sneak into Walmington and post a notice in the town square advising that collaborators will be shot on sight without trial. Jones risks capture by paying a visit to his lady companion, glamorous widow Mrs Fox. However, he is devastated to find her in the arms of a German officer. In a fit of rage he shoots them both dead and escapes by the skin of his teeth pursued by a German patrol. Jones unwittingly leads the Germans to Mainwaring’s hideout. However, Mainwaring has planned ahead and his redoubt is well defended. After a brief skirmish, five of the Nazis lie dead, one is seriously wounded and one taken alive. Mainwaring realises that they have no facility for taking prisoners and orders the prisoner to be taken outside and shot. Jones volunteers but Mainwaring, wary of the blood-lust in Jones’ eyes orders Private Fraser, a dour Scotsman to carry out his orders which he does without hesitation realising that the same fate would await him if the roles were reversed. Mainwaring administers the coup-de-grace to the wounded German with his pistol. With this act, the platoon realises that there is no going back now.
When the German patrol does not return, the Nazis unleash a terrible vengeance. Mr Godfrey’s cottage is burned to the ground and elderly Mr Bluett is tortured for days by the Gestapo. Bluett refuses to divulge any knowledge of the home guard and throws his torturers off the scent by going on for hours about his bunions.
Realising that they are unlikely to gain any intelligence from the old man, Klaus Von Macheim, the newly appointed Gaulieter of Walmington-on-Sea, orders the entire town out of their homes to the town square where they are forced to watch Bluett’s execution. A proclamation is read holding Mainwairing’s platoon responsible and Bluett is shot by firing squad. His last defiant words are ‘but what about my roses? I've just mulched them’ which causes Von Macheim to fly into a rage and to mutilate Bluett's corpse.
The townspeople are stunned into silence until a lone voice from the middle of the throng starts singing in a plaintive voice ‘who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?’ A couple of voices join in until the whole town are singing the defiant statement of freedom at the top of their lungs. Von Macheim fires his luger indiscriminately into the crowd and several people are killed. The townspeople flee and Von Macheim orders a total lockdown of Walmington-on-Sea.
News of this horrific event spreads along a secret network of gossiping housewives, delivery boys and spivs. Meanwhile, the people of Scotland still hold out against the invader, who soon realises it's just not worth invading the land to the North as the natives are too insane and warlike to ever be subjugated.
Months pass and Mainwairing and his crack platoon of misfits are still in hiding, plotting a plan of attack. Meanwhile, the Americans hatch a plan to secretly reinforce and arm Scotland with a steady supply of weapons and ammunition from disguised fishing boats and submarines. When the time comes, American troops will flood Scotland and attack Nazi occupied England.
The resistance groups across England listen to US forces radio for coded messages in-between the incessant Glen Miller records.
Mainwairing appoints himself Prime Minister of Free England and forms a war cabinet. Jones is appointed minister for War, Sgt Wilson is Foreign Secretary, Pike is minister for Intelligence , Fraser is Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sponge is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
The US enters the war after Pearl Harbour and the platoon’s assassination campaign is put on hold.
Pike attends a resistance summit and returns with the news that a US backed attack from Scotland is imminent. When the message ‘Oh Lady Melton-Mowbray, what a lovely pair of pomegranates’ is broadcast the invasion will begin. The platoon begin training in earnest. Jones suffers a bout of malaria and imagines he is in the Sudan.
The platoon’s morale suffers a serious blow when their beloved medic Mr Godfrey passes away in his sleep.
Mainwairing asks for volunteer for suicide mission and Jones in his demented state volunteers. He walks into the Walmington-on-Sea tearoom frequented by Nazi officers with several pounds of high explosives under his clothes. He detonates his device and twelve Nazi officers are killed. Somehow Jones survives and stumbles out with his clothes in rags, his spectacles hanging from one ear and his face all covered in dust. He is quickly hidden by the townspeople.
Fraser is sent to Scotland to liaise with his countrymen and to secure military aid.
A Mass invasion is launched from Scotland supported by American air power after Fraser’s pleas for help are accepted. Those Scots not armed with American weapons charge behind with broken bottles, bricks and home made ‘chibs’, united in their desire to ‘malky’ the Germans and free the Sassenachs.
Mainwairing orders a massive campaign of destruction and sabotage. The Nazis retreat back to fortress Europe. News reaches Hitler who delares Mainwairing an enemy of the Nazi state and orders his arrest and murder. Mainwairing has recently had posters put up describing the Fuhrer as a ‘madman who looks like Charlie Chaplin’.
Von Macheim, attempting to flee dressed as a nun, is captured by Private Sponge. Mainwairing orders that Von Macheim be taken to the exact spot of Mr Bluett’s murder and reads a short proclamation that the Gaulieter will be summarily executed. The platoon form a firing squad and Von Macheim is shot despite pleading for his life in a last cowardly act. His corpse is dragged through the streets of Walmington-on-Sea and mutilated before being hung from a lamppost.
The remaining surrendered German troops are then murdered by the platoon despite Mainwairing’s orders to take them prisoner under the terms of the Geneva Convention.
Collaborators are rounded up. The Vicar and Mr Yeatman are tied to posts, blindfolded and shot. Various women who slept with the Germans, including Mrs Pike, have their heads shaved and are tied to lampposts and tarred and feathered. Private Walker escapes. The bodies are buried in a mass grave behind Timothy White’s.
Mainwairing’s terrible revenge on the town’s collaborators is hushed up by authorities desperate to avoid bad publicity and driven by a need for heroic tales of British pluck. The tale of 'Mainwairing's Marauders' is deliberately constructed.
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Mainwairing is promoted to full colonel and Jones is awarded the VC in a lavish ceremony at Buckingham palace. Sgt Wilson is admonished for trying to chat up the Duchess of Gloucestershire.
Fifteen years later, a man’s body is found hanging underneath the pier at Walmington-on-Sea. Pinned to his chest is a message - ‘no hiding place for traitors’. The body is later identified as that of Eastgate resident James Beck - the post war identity assumed by Private Joe Walker. The murder is never solved.

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Ven and Harmer brought Pretty Boy back to his senses by waving a packet of smelling salts under his nose. Madame Wimba had a stock of them at hand for precisely this eventuality. Brawls were a regular occurrence in any establishment that pathfinders frequented. The glassy look faded as Pretty Boy’s gaze sharpened.
“Ugh. I must have died and gone on to the Flight Eternal,” he said as he beheld Ven leaning over him, “For I do declare that I’ve just met me an angel.”
Ven giggled and Harmer let Pretty Boy’s head bounce back onto the table with a thump.
“Ow!” he complained.
“Serves you right,” Harmer said coldly, “I’d slap you around again myself, only your head’s bashed to bits enough as it is. It’s a shame you didn’t buy the farm after all.”
“Thanks, sweet peach,” Pretty Boy glared at her, and Tooms knew then that the bastard was going to be alright.
“Corporal Doyd,” Deschane stood over his former opponent and held out a flask of chilled water pumped up from the deep cisterns of Shakka. Pretty Boy accepted the peace offering and pressed the cold flask against the swollen lumps on his face.
“Sorry,” Deschaine said softly.
“No. I am,” replied Pretty Boy with a rueful tilt of his head.
“Don’t be. I understand why you did it.”
“Hm. Had to be sure, didn’t I? Sure you hadn’t gone all soft in the head. They say you was seeing visions back at Mound 13. I had to see if you’d finally cracked under the pressure. You wouldn’t be the first. But no—you’re still as sharp and mean as ever, sir. It weren’t no vision you saw, I take it?”
Deschane pointed a thumb at the door and Ven went back to being a lookout, Cooly following her outside to do the same. Madame Wimba heaved another weary sigh and plodded out, heading for her apartment. The navigator patted Doyd on the shoulder and took out a rolled-up map of the northern hinterlands, spreading it out reverentially over the corkwood wall where it covered the list of names. His soldiers pinned it in place with a bayonet to each of its four corners. Then they all took their seats like schoolchildren facing the blackboard, Harmer helping Pretty Boy sit up and see.
Deschane spoke:
“We’ll begin with a debriefing of what actually occurred at Mound 13. There will be time allotted at the end for questions. You all deserve to know what happened to your comrades, just as I rightly deserve a portion of the blame. But for the moment I’d like to request that you all lay aside whatever opinions you may have of me as a leader, and just listen. This is bigger than me, and bigger than our regiment. It eclipses everything we thought we understood about Arachnea and the humanity’s place upon it. Needless to say, this is all strictly confidential. To anyone who isn’t willing to risk their lives and careers over this, now is your chance to walk away and wash your hands of this matter in its entirety.”
He paused and looked at the assembly expectantly. Just as he’d predicted, not a man or woman of them stood up to leave. Ven had drawn up an excellent list. Before departing on the reconnaissance mission against Mound Euler, Deschane had been careful not to place all his best eggs in one basket. The pathfinders in the saloon were some of his finest soldiers that he’d kept in reserve just in case the worst befell his patrol, which it had. It was always a good idea to keep the core of his seasoned veterans intact so they could pass on their hard-won knowledge on to the next crop of raw recruits. In terms of quality the fifteen volunteers in front of him equaled or even exceeded the talents of the twenty who had gone into the green.
Only, I will not fail them this time, Deschane swore to himself. He took up the broken leg of the stool and used it for a pointer as he began tracing the path he and previous platoon had taken, narrating the sequence of events, from the horror-stricken moment when Rene had realized the true size of Mound Euler and its kill-radius, to the fighting withdrawal after the ambush and the valiant sacrifice of crewman Lethway.
Deschane chose not to tell them of Lethway’s subsequent execution at the hands of his best friend, Rene. There were two reasons for this. First and foremost was his duty to the mission. If the pathfinders learned of the coldblooded decision Deschane had taken that day, there was no telling how it would affect their confidence in him as a navigator. They already had sufficient cause to doubt Deschane’s ability to lead, and anything that could negatively affect their morale had a risk of jeopardizing the missions. The second reason was the Deschane simply didn’t wish to sully Rene’s name in the memories of his comrades. No, the boy deserved better than that. It would be best to tell them of the mercy killing after everything was said and done, or at least Deschane convinced himself that he would.
He told his pathfinders that despite their best efforts to muddy the trail, he and Rene had inadvertently led the Amits back to Mound 13 and Prota’s science team. Deschane could not furnish them with the details of the ensuing siege, however, as he had been fully occupied trying to buy Rene enough time to escape from the wave of onrushing Amits.
“And how exactly did you survive that yourself, sir?” Tooms said, butting in right at the midpoint of Deschane’s tale. The navigator’s brows furrowed and Tooms immediately apologized:
“Fair, fair. I’ll wait for the question and answer.”
“Now that you’ve brought it up, I might as well explain that part,” Deschane replied.
Deschane’s trained eye had spotted the entrances to several abandoned nursery burrows as he and Rene had made their initial approach to Mound 13. When the Amit army had closed in, Deschane had led a portion of them towards one of the cramped tunnel systems where the warrior-brood who had charged in after him struggled to squeeze into the spaces they had outgrown years ago. Deschane had taken advantage of the bottleneck and killed them one at a time with carefully placed shots to their nerve bundles fired at a comfortable distance of eight paces. The resulting wall of corpses had plugged the tunnel shut long enough for Deschane to hastily rip up about forty paper cartridges and pour out their powder into the pouch. He had set the pouch against the crumbling clay walls where the burrow was at its narrowest then laid a trail of grains to the serve as the long fuse of his makeshift charge. Igniting its end with the spark from his percussion cap and the pistol’s hammer, he had collapsed the midsection of the burrow and buried himself up to the chest in the resulting cave-in. There he had awaited his slow death via suffocation. It was at that point when, hovering between the cubic centimeters of life-giving air and the warm embrace of eternity, Deschane felt the crushing pressure on his chest let up as the tunnel sides crumbled away, the earth folding in upon itself like an envelope. An immense downward force indented the topsoil, forming a huge oval crater down whose slopes Deschane tumbled helter-skelter. Dizzy and delirious, he had dragged himself up on one elbow and looked up to see…
“Yes, sir?” Leming was on the edge of his seat, a man on the verge of the promised rapture, “What did you see?”
Deschane wondered how he could tell him. How could he tell the fanatic that his every prayer has just been answered, not with the vagaries of philosophy and interpretation, but with an ironclad truth towering above the walls of cynical doubt, crushing them to powder beneath its feet as it had the thousands of Amits infesting the ruins of Mound 13.
“A Divine Engine,” Deschane finally declared with as much emotion as an announcer would put into the weekly weather bulletin, “Just like in the stories of old. It destroyed the enemy along with the entire outpost. Then it turned and headed nor’-nor’-east. Hills, forests, mountain chains—it brushed them all aside like they were nothing.”
Deschane thought it best to leave out the archaeological finds that Prota had uncovered. It was not his place to speculate on what the acid sculptures and paintings ultimately signified. Even if the Amits were truly that intelligent, that changed nothing in the overall scheme of things. Humanity needed habitable spaces to expand their dominion over Arachnea, and the Amits stood in their way.
Besides, he was just an infantryman with a scattering of knowledge concerning the heartless calculus of war and wayfinding. It was not his place to tell these pathfinders what to believe. He would leave the work of making sense of all those findings to Nong and his mysterious backers who had yet to step out from the shadows.
He steamed ahead with his debriefing:
“The Engine’s movements shifted the earth and loosened it enough for me to dig myself out. I lost consciousness due to exhaustion and the mild loss of blood which I eventually stemmed with a poultice made of mud and a handful of urine—"
“Ye gods!” Leming cried, “All due respect, but we aren’t interested in hearing about your piss, sir. Don’t keep us all in suspense. What did it look like?”
Deschane saw from the eager looks on their faces that he was going to get nowhere with them until he gave them what they wanted. He blew out a weary sigh of defeat and said, grudgingly: “It was large.”
“How large?” Tooms interposed again.
“Very,” Deschane grated, “A little smaller than mound wherein it was buried, which was your standard kappa-class colony of the wedge design favored by the northern subspecies of Amit.”
“And where they walked, the mountains stood aside and rivers did flow…” said Leming, closing in eyes and letting the tears run down his speckled cheeks. Some of the other pathfinders followed his example and did the sign of the trimada, seized by a sudden outbreak of religious fervor.
“Navigator, you’re absolutely sure you weren’t just loopy from the painkillers the medics gave you?” Beans asked, ever the skeptic.
“Positive,” Deschane said, “I don’t expect you to believe me on the strength of my testimony alone, so I borrowed this from a new…acquaintance…of ours.”
The navigator produced the replica of the ten-thousand-year-old doll and set it down on the counter, activating it with a press of the button on its side. The soldiers oohed and aahed at its perambulations just as Ven had done, captivated by the cryptic speech recording and the flash of its red eye lens. The picture card shot out of the slot and they all crowded around to see their own faces, marveling at the image it had captured of them gawping at it like mouth breathing morons.
“Make it do that again!” Tooms begged, “I was blinking that time, it didn’t get me right.”
“You’re so tiny that you barely figure in it at all,” Harmer teased, “Speaking of figures, am I really that chubby?”
She pinched at the skin of her washboard belly in disappointment.
“When you said it was very big,” Pretty Boy said, “That’s not exactly what I had in mind.”
“Perceptive as always, Doyd,” Leming said with scathing sarcasm.
Deschane explained what Nong had told him about the doll’s scientific significance and the cycles of civilization preserved in the stratigraphic column. Most of the pathfinders seemed to be leaning towards acceptance now, with only Baow and Tooms voicing their lingering doubts. Deschane sensed that another tipping point had been reached and made the decisive move, saying:
“It’s said that seeing is believing. In that case, come and see for yourselves. Sometimes I can hardly believe that it happened myself. Which is why I am heading back out there, with or without you all. I intend to seek out the Divine Engine. My compass was smashed during the battle, but I managed to get a rough estimate of its heading with the position of the suns and the angle of the shadows cast by the nearby trees. My contact who’ll be assisting me in this endeavor has promised to help us narrow down the sector search using seismographic readings that they took from several research outposts. Each of the Divine Engine’s steps registered as a small earthquake, you see.”
“That’s right,” said Tooms, “Even we felt those quakes all the way back here in Shakka.”
“Indeed. By measuring the amplitude and magnitude of each of these tremors, the seismologists have charted the path which the Divine Engine took within an acceptable margin of error. Air transport will also be provided for this mission, along with state-of-the-art weaponry and portable ordinance.”
“Dandy-o,” said Cooly, sticking his thick head through the door at the mention of things which went boom. Pretty Boy’s scowl summed up what he thought of the whole thing.
“I don’t get it. Why don’t we just wait for the Expeditionary Force to uncover the Engine themselves?” Pretty Boy wanted to know, “They’re going to be rolling up to the northern hinterlands anyway, all 200,000 of them. Why not let the big guns handle it, navigator?”
“Fleet Command has a different set of priorities,” Deschane said reluctantly, “They either think I’m a raving lunatic or they’ve deliberately chosen to discredit me and spread mistruths about the deaths of our comrades. Their main objective is to directly engage Euler and all the other enemy concentrations that we have yet to encounter. If our experience in the south is anything to go by, then the law of competitive exclusion means that most those other unknown mounds will be equal to or slightly smaller than Euler, given that other Amit subspecies would be unable to compete for resources with a colony of that magnitude. Therefore most of Euler’s neighboring mounds are bound to be dominated by the same race of Amits, who will have built structures of comparable size to accommodate a similar population model.”
“It’s no secret why Fleet Command launched this offensive. Humanity’s population is growing at an unsustainable rate. We need space for our crops and closed cities to house our colonists. There have already been food riots in the core mounds themselves. Command’s utmost priority is to conquer as much of the northern hinterlands as possible. In all likelihood, therefore, the Expeditionary Force is going to fan out and fight along a very wide front.”
Deschane pointed at the logistics networks he’d marked out on the map, the build-up of supply depots and new bridges a clear indication of the directions of the offensive’s main thrusts. Command was planning to form three salients into enemy territory, moving along the valleys and mountain passes to encircle Euler and cut it off from any support from its nearby sister mounds.
“As such, the Expeditionary Force will soon get bogged down in series of slow and grinding battles of attrition that will make the Scouring of Assail look like a picnic in the park. In the end they will not penetrate very far into enemy territory at all, and certainly not deep enough to recover the Divine Engine.”
“If it isn’t on the agenda to recover this relic,” Harmer said slowly, “Then why have they assigning this mission to us pathfinders at all?”
Deschane coughed and took a sip of watered rum from a bottle under the register. Pretty boy started to laugh, a throaty, hacking sort of chortle full of phlegm and cruel glee.
“Haven’t you idiots figured it out yet? Our dear navigator here wants us to fly north beyond the dragon’s edge of the maps on floating bags of hydrogen that have a habit of going up in flames as soon as you sneeze on em. Then he’s gonna have us plod around in the jungles of bumble-fragging nowhere in search of the jolly grey giant that he somehow misplaced. And then, hoo boyo, then it gets really good!” Pretty Boy wheezed, “Get this—then he wants us to sneak our way past an invisible minefield of spore lines and cart the flipping thing back to Fleet Command, just so’s he can rub their noses in it. Did I leave anything out, sirrah?”
Deschane puffed out his cheeks and said: “No. That’s the plan in a nutshell, as it were. So. Are you game, pathfinder?”
Pretty Boy lifted his mug in a toast and grinned happily through the bruises on his face, “Hell, brother. We wouldn’t miss a mad caper like that for the world. Into the green we go!”
As one the pathfinders all raised their mugs and answered the clarion call:
“Into the green!”
“Hrm?” Greymoss squinted blearily up at them, beard matted with drool, “Are we finally going somewhere? Burr-och-aye, I thought you lot would never decide.”
He was snoring again in the next minute, content with the flow of his destiny. But as Tooms drained his cup, he couldn’t help but envy the bog man and his calm acceptance of life’s fatal conclusion. Nor could he shake the certainty that for many of them seated here, this would be the last good drink they’d ever enjoy.
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Seoul Central District Court
50th Civil Fraud Case
2024카합20635 Prohibition on the exercise of voting rights
Creditor
A
Lead Counsel Sejong Law Firm (Limited)
Attorneys Won Lee, Sook Mi Lee, Soo Kyun Lee, Gong Hee Lee, Byung Heon Yang
Debtor
B Corporation
Attorneys Hae Yong Hwang, Hee Joong Kim, Min Young Hong, Yi Kyung Kim, Ji Eun Lee
ORDER

1. The Debtor shall not exercise the right to vote in favor of the proposal to dismiss Director A in the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (including annual and special meetings) of Corporation C to be convened on May 31, 2024, with the shares listed in the appendix.
2. pay KRW 20,000,000,000 to the creditor if the debtor violates the order in paragraph 1.
3. dismiss the rest of the creditor's motion.
4. The debtor shall bear the costs of the proceedings.

Purpose of the Motion
Order No. 1 and order the debtor to pay the creditor KRW 30,000,000,000 if the debtor violates the order in Order No. 1.
Reasons
The record and the hearing as a whole show that the following facts are proved.
A. The creditor is a director and representative director of C (hereinafter referred to as "C") and a shareholder holding 573,160 shares (17.8% equity ratio) out of the total number of 3,220,000 issued shares of C. The Debtor is a shareholder holding 2,576,000 shares of C's issued shares (80% ownership).
B. The creditor joined the debtor's predecessor company, D, as a "Chief Brand Officer (CBO)" in January 2019, and was appointed as a director and CEO of C on November 2, 2021, when C was established. By that time, the Debtor owned all of the outstanding shares of C.
C. On November 11, 2021, the creditor, the debtor, and C entered into a business agreement. The MOU included, among other things, that the debtor granted the creditor 1) stock purchase options for 10% of the total issued shares of C; 2) the right to sell the shares of C acquired by the creditor through the exercise of the above stock purchase options to the debtor at a price of 13 times the average operating income of C; and 3) the right to receive a bonus of 5% of the total issued shares of C multiplied by a certain threshold amount or to be granted additional stock purchase options in exchange for the above bonus if C is listed.
D. C's girl group, "E," debuted in F. E gained significant popularity immediately after its debut, and C recorded sales of approximately 18.6 billion won and operating loss of approximately 4 billion won in 2022, and sales of approximately 102 billion won and operating income of approximately 33.5 billion won in 2023, respectively.
d. On March 27, 2023, the Debtor sold 573,160 shares (17.8% of C's outstanding shares) to the creditor at a price of KRW 6,522 per share (approximately 1.3 times the par value) and entered into a shareholders' agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Shareholders' Agreement") with the creditor and C on the same day. The following sections of the Shareholders' Agreement are relevant to this case.
Article 2 Matters relating to the management of C
2.1 Appointment of Representative Director and Directors
(a) Unless the Creditor commits an act that constitutes grounds for removal of a director under commercial law, such as committing an act in violation of the Articles of Incorporation, laws and regulations, or this Agreement is terminated, the Debtor shall appoint a representative director for a period of five years from November 2, 2021, the date of C's establishment.

1. for a period of five (5) years from the date of establishment of C. The Debtor shall take necessary measures, including exercising the voting rights of the shares held in the main shareholders' meeting of C, so that the Debtor can continue to hold the position of CEO and inside director of C.

(c) The debtor may require the creditor to resign from the position of CEO and/or inside director, in which case the creditor shall resign from the position of CEO and/or inside director without delay if any of the following occurs

1. the creditor intentionally and grossly negligently causes damage to C of KRW 1 billion or more
2. the creditor has materially breached this Agreement
3. the Creditor has committed fraud, embezzlement, or other misconduct in connection with the operation of C.
4. In the event of any other material disqualification for the performance of duties as a representative director

Article 3 Termination of Business Agreement, etc.
3.1 The Debtor, C and the Creditor agree to terminate the Business Agreement dated November 11, 2021 upon the execution of this Agreement.
The above Business Agreement shall be replaced by the Stock Purchase Agreement dated March 27, 2023 between the Creditor and the Debtor.
shall cease to be effective prospectively on the Closing Date.
Article 5 Creditor's Right to Put Option
5.1 A Creditor may, on a one-time basis during the period from the third anniversary of the date of incorporation of C to the tenth anniversary of the date of incorporation of C, make a written request to the Debtor to purchase such shares (hereinafter referred to as the "Put Option") in respect of a number of shares equal to 75% of the issued shares of C held by the Creditor at that time.
5.3 Upon receipt by the Creditor of the Put Notice, a sale and purchase agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into between the Creditor and the Designated Buyer with the following terms and conditions
3 The purchase price per Share: (the average of C's operating profit as per C's audited financial statements for the two immediately preceding business years ending on the date of exercise of the Put Option x 13.0 - C's borrowing from financial institutions as at the date of the Put Option Exercise Notice) / the purchase price per Share.
lender borrowings)/C's total number of outstanding shares on the date of exercise of the put right
Article 10 Covenants
10.3 Creditor's Covenants
The Creditor covenants to the Debtor as follows
(a) The Creditor shall fulfill its duties of loyalty to C as a representative director and executive director of C, and shall not intentionally or grossly negligently take any action that may cause damage to C and other affiliated companies in the Debtor's corporate group.
(c) The Creditor shall cause the Debtor to be notified in writing without undue delay of any material adverse effect on C and of any major business event.
(e) The Creditor shall have been employed by C for a period of at least five (5) years as of the date of incorporation of C and shall not, during the foregoing period and/or while this Agreement is in effect, without the prior written consent of the Debtor and C, directly or indirectly (including through a related party) (i) engage in any business that is the same or similar to the business engaged in by the Debtor, C and its Affiliates, whether domestically or internationally (hereinafter referred to as the "Non-Compete Business"), or (ii) establish a company that engages in a non-competitive business; (iii) invest in, lend equity to, or merge with a company that engages in a non-competitive business; or (iv) engage in any form of engagement, including as an advisor, consultant, or advisor, whether or not compensated, with any company, business, or entity that engages in a non-competitive business.
Article 11 Effect of the Agreement, etc.
11.2 Termination
If any of the following events occur to either Party, the other Party may terminate this Agreement by written notice to the responsible Party.
may terminate this Agreement by written notice to the other party.
(a) a material breach of this Agreement to the extent that the purpose of this Agreement cannot be fulfilled (provided, however, that if such breach is remediable, the breach is not cured within 14 days after receiving a request from the other party to remedy such breach).
Article 12 Miscellaneous
12.9 Confidentiality
Each Party shall, during the term of this Agreement and after termination of this Agreement, keep strictly confidential (a) the existence and content of this Agreement, (b) the negotiations in connection with this Agreement, and (c) all information and materials of a confidential nature obtained from the other Party or otherwise in the course of entering into and performing this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "Confidential Information"). Each Party shall, to the minimum extent necessary, disclose to its employees performing duties in connection with this Agreement (1) with the prior written consent of the other Party, (2) if required by law to disclose to any governmental or regulatory agency, (3) if required to disclose in any judicial or administrative proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or (iv) subject to the same obligations as provided in this Article with respect to the information disclosed, agents, advisors, and other relevant persons, and shall not disclose or provide the Confidential Information to any third party or use it for any purpose other than the Business.
b. From around December 2023, the Creditor requested the Debtor to amend the Shareholders' Agreement, raising issues regarding the non-compete covenant stipulated in paragraph (e) of Article 10.3 of the Shareholders' Agreement and the fact that the purchase price per share upon exercise of the put option in Article 5.3 of the Shareholders' Agreement is based on 13 times the operating income of C. Accordingly, negotiations on the amendment of the Shareholders' Agreement were conducted between the Creditor and the Debtor until around G.
G. "I", a girl group belonging to another subsidiary of the Debtor, H (hereinafter referred to as "H"), made its debut in G.
On April 3, 2024, the creditor sent an email to the debtor and H, raising the issue that "I's concept, styling, choreography, etc. are similar to those of E". Attached to the above email was an opinion letter dated March 31, 2024 from the legal representatives of the members of E to the creditor, expressing concern about the similarity of E and I and the discriminatory treatment of E by the debtor.
In response, the CEO of H replied to the effect that 'we need time to prepare a response, and it is taking more time than expected because we are trying to prepare a good response'.
Now. On April 16, 2024, the creditor sent another email to the debtor, raising issues regarding "the debtor's 'record pushing' (the practice of artificially inflating the initial sales of records by using record distributors or overseas subsidiaries), the debtor's discriminatory treatment of E, and the similarity of I and E."
On the other hand, on the same day, H replied to the creditor by email, stating that it did not copy the choreography of E, nor did it use E or conduct marketing comparing it to E. The debtor also sent an email to C on the same day, stating that it would promptly review C's complaint and requested that the debtor arrange a meeting with the legal representatives of the members of E to communicate directly with them.
Ch. On April 22, 2024, C's auditor sent a letter to C stating that it "intends to conduct an investigation into C's business and property status and request a report on its operations from the creditor." On the same day, the debtor's audit committee also sent a letter to C stating that it "intends to conduct an investigation into C's business and property status and request a report on its operations from the creditor because it is concerned that C's management, including the creditor, has breached its duty of care and loyalty, which may significantly impair C's corporate value. On the same day, the debtor demanded that the creditor resign as C's CEO and requested that C's board of directors convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for the purpose of "proposing to dismiss the creditor as an executive director of C" (hereinafter referred to as "the case proposal").
C. On April 25, 2024, the debtor applied to the Seoul Western District Court for permission to convene the shareholders' meeting of C with the agenda of the case as the purpose of the meeting (Seoul Western District Court 2024 B.S. No. 1037). C. The creditor held a press conference on April 25, 2024, and the creditor's remarks at the press conference included the statement that "I or H copied and plagiarized E" and the non-compete covenant in Article 10.3 (e) of the Shareholders' Agreement.
Par. On April 25, 2024, the Debtor filed a complaint with the Seoul Yongsan Police Station accusing the Creditor and J, an executive director of C, of "business misconduct," and on May 14, 2024, the Debtor filed an additional complaint with the Seoul Yongsan Police Station accusing the Creditor, J, and K, the head of C's style directing team, of "business misconduct.
h. C held a board meeting on May 10, 2024, and resolved to convene a general meeting of shareholders on May 31, 2024, for the purpose of considering this case (hereinafter, the general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held pursuant to the above resolution is referred to as the 'general meeting of shareholders').

1. summary of the parties' arguments

A. Creditor

1. The Debtor is obliged to take the necessary measures, including exercising its voting rights with respect to the issued shares of C held by the Debtor at the shareholders' meeting of C, in order to ensure that the Debtor can retain its position as an executive director of C for a period of five years from November 2, 2021, pursuant to Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case, and is therefore obliged not to exercise its voting rights in favor of the proposal to dismiss the Debtor at the shareholders' meeting in this case.
2. The part (a) of Article 2.1(1) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case stating that "unless the creditor has committed acts that constitute grounds for the removal of directors under commercial law, including acts in violation of the Articles of Incorporation, laws and regulations," constitutes a condition for the release of the obligation to exercise voting rights stipulated in the same paragraph, and therefore, the burden of proof regarding the fact that the creditor has committed acts that constitute grounds for the removal of directors under commercial law, including acts in violation of the Articles of Incorporation, laws and regulations (hereinafter referred to as "grounds for removal"), is on the Debtor.
3. As shown below, the creditor has not engaged in any of the acts constituting the grounds for removal stipulated in Article 21(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement.

a) The creditor did not formulate a specific plan to deprive the debtor of its control over C or take any action to do so, and even if it did, it would not constitute a violation of the law, such as embezzlement, in its relationship with C.
b) The creditor has not formulated and executed a plan to intentionally impair the value of C or terminate the exclusive contract with E.
or terminate the exclusive contract with E. Il Raising issues such as copying or plagiarizing E was done to prevent C's enterprise value from being damaged and cannot be a violation of law against C.
C) The actions of the creditor that the debtor complains of have not caused any property damage to C.
d) The information that the debtor claims is a trade secret is not a trade secret of C, and the creditor's disclosure of the information did not cause C any damage.
e) When shooting E's advertisement, C only receives modeling fees, and the cost of setting hair, makeup, and costumes (hereinafter referred to as "styling services") is paid by the advertiser to an outsourcing company separately, so the styling services that the debtor complains about cannot be C's revenue in the first place.
b) The Debtor has not colluded with J in the sale of the Debtor's issued shares, and the sale of the Debtor's shares in violation of the JI Capital Market and Financial Investment Business Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Capital Market Act") does not cause any damage to C.
4) The creditor has not engaged in any behavior that constitutes a reason for resignation (hereinafter referred to as a "reason for resignation") as defined in Article 2.1(c) of the Shareholders' Agreement. Furthermore, since "removal" and "resignation" of a director are clearly distinct concepts, and Article 2.1 of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case also distinguishes between the reasons for removal and resignation, the mere fact that the Creditor has a reason for resignation is not sufficient to remove the Creditor from office at the shareholders' meeting in this case. If the Debtor can prove that the Creditor's failure to resign is a material breach of the Shareholders' Agreement and terminate the Shareholders' Agreement in accordance with Article 11.2 of the Shareholders' Agreement, the Debtor can remove the Creditor, so it cannot be said that the reason for resignation is cured.
5) If the creditor is dismissed because the debtor exercises its right to vote in favor of the proposal at the shareholders' meeting in this case, the creditor will suffer irreparable damage to its reputation as well as direct and indirect property damage.
The creditor will suffer irreparable damage to its reputation.
I. The Debtor

1. In light of Article 38 of C's Articles of Incorporation, which sets the term of office for directors at three years, Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case merely stipulates that "in the event that the creditor is reappointed beyond the three-year term, the debtor shall take the necessary measures, including exercising its voting rights, to agree to such reappointment," and cannot be interpreted as a covenant restricting the debtor's right to exercise its voting rights to remove the creditor as a director.
2. If paragraph 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement at issue is interpreted as a covenant restricting the debtor's right to remove the creditor, the provision on resignation in paragraph 2.1(c) of the Shareholders' Agreement at issue would be rendered moot, as the creditor would not be able to remove the creditor as a director of C even if the creditor fails to fulfill its resignation obligation in violation of Article 21(c) of the Shareholders' Agreement at issue.
3. The absence of the grounds for removal set forth in Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case is a

is a prerequisite for the debtor's voting rights to be restricted, so the creditor bears the burden of proving that "no cause for removal exists.
4) In order to privatize C, which was established with the debtor's investment, and E, its core asset, the creditor violated the following laws and articles of association.
a) The creditor committed a series of violations of the duty of good faith and fiduciary duty to cause damage to C or intentionally reduce the value of C, such as attempting to terminate the exclusive contract between C and E and encouraging the legal representatives of the members of E to create the appearance of complaining and raising issues with C and the debtor.
b) The creditor engaged in a series of breaches of fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty by using the media and investors in the debtor to pressure the debtor to wrest control of C from the debtor.
was.
c) The creditor conspired with K, the head of the style directing team, to divert revenues that should have been attributable to C. The creditor's business practice was to allow K to receive
K to receive revenue that should have been attributable to C.
d) The creditor leaked C's trade secrets to the outside world, including "the fact that E signed a brand ambassador contract, C's undisclosed 2023 performance information, emails between C and the debtor's department (brand synergy business part) on the issue of L, and the negotiation content of the shareholders' agreement in this case". c) The creditor conspired with J and M, C's vice president, to engage in fraudulent misconduct in violation of Article 178 of the Capital Market Act.
b) The creditor committed defamatory acts against the debtor's management and its affiliated companies.
5) The Creditor is obligated to resign as a director of C pursuant to Article 21(c) of the Shareholders' Agreement for the following reasons. The creditor who is obligated to resign cannot claim to be prohibited from exercising the right to vote to remove the creditor at the shareholders' meeting in this case because
a) In paragraph 4) above, due to the creditor's violation of the laws and articles of association, the market capitalization of the debtor, a publicly traded company, fell by more than KRW 1 trillion, and the exclusive contractual relationship with E, C's asset, became unstable. As a result, the creditor caused more than KRW 1 billion in damages to C. This constitutes a reason for resignation under Article 2.1(c)(1) of the Shareholders' Agreement.
b) The Creditor breached the confidentiality obligations set forth in Article 12.9 of the Shareholders' Agreement and breached the undertakings in Article 10.3(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement by making false allegations regarding the issues of "discrimination, pushing out, and plagiarism", causing irreparable damage to the Debtor and its affiliates. Accordingly, the Creditor has materially breached the Shareholders' Agreement in this case. This constitutes a cause for resignation as set forth in Article 21(c)(2) of the Shareholders' Agreement.
c) The Creditor has engaged in misconduct in relation to the operation of C, including acts of embezzlement, violation of Article 178 of the Capital Market Law, and defamatory acts against the Debtor and its affiliates, which constitute grounds for resignation under Article 2.1 (c) (3) of the Shareholders' Agreement.
d) The Creditor has destroyed the trust relationship with the Debtor by relying on shamans for major management decisions, having inadequate gender sensitivity, and excessively pursuing self-interest. Therefore, the Creditor is materially disqualified from performing his duties as C's CEO. This constitutes a reason for resignation under Article 21(c)(4) of the Shareholders' Agreement.

1. Judgment

A. Right to retention

1. Interpretation of Article 21(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement

A) 1 Article 21(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case clearly stipulates that 'the Debtor shall exercise the voting rights of the shares held by the Debtor at the shareholders' meeting of C so that the Creditor can maintain its position as a director of C until November 1, 2026'; 2 Article 2. 1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in the instant case refers to 'reasons for removal of directors' by stipulating that 'the creditor has committed acts that constitute reasons for removal of directors under commercial law, such as committing acts in violation of the articles of association, laws and regulations' as an exception to the obligation to exercise such voting rights; 3 Article 2. 1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case appears to be a covenant intended to provide the creditor, who is obligated to remain in C for five years pursuant to Article 10.3(e) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case, with a guaranteed position as CEO of C during the term of his employment, it is reasonable to interpret Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case as a covenant restricting the debtor's right to exercise voting rights at the general meeting of shareholders of C to remove the creditor from the position of CEO of C unless grounds for removal exist. The covenant is valid as between the creditor and the debtor because there is nothing to suggest that it is prejudicial to the rights of other shareholders or otherwise unfair. Therefore, the debtor is under a contractual obligation under the covenant not to vote in favor of the proposal to remove the creditor as a director at C's shareholders' meeting unless the creditor has cause for removal.
It is also reasonable to conclude that the content of such obligation is specific and unambiguous, so that the creditor can seek enforcement of such obligation.
b) Furthermore, in light of the fact that the grounds for dismissal in Article 21(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case are among the exceptions that allow the debtor to avoid the above obligation to exercise voting rights, and that it is virtually impossible to prove the non-existence of certain grounds, it is reasonable to conclude that the debtor bears the burden of proving to the creditor that the grounds for dismissal in Article 21(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case or the grounds for resignation in paragraph (c) of the same article exist.
2) Whether the creditor has a cause for removal
a) Relevant legal theory
If a director is found to have committed misconduct in connection with his or her duties or to have violated a law or the articles of association, and the general meeting of shareholders rejects his or her removal, shareholders holding shares equal to at least one hundredth of the total number of issued shares may petition the court to remove the director (Article 38 (2) of the Commercial Code). Here, 'misconduct in relation to duties' refers to a director's intentional act that causes damage to the company in violation of his or her duties, and mere neglect of duties is not included in the grounds for requesting removal, and 'material facts in violation of laws or articles of association' refers to a director's intentional violation of laws or articles of association in a manner comparable to misconduct in relation to duties, causing damage to the company by breaching his or her duty of loyalty to the company.
b) Specific judgment
In light of the above statement of case, plus the following facts which appear from the record and the hearing as a whole, it is difficult to conclude that the debtor's arguments and materials submitted to date are sufficient to show that the creditor has a cause of action for removal.
(1) It is clear that the creditor has been dissatisfied with the content of the shareholders' agreement in this case since the end of 2023 and has demanded its amendment, and has sought to weaken the debtor's control over C by taking E out of the debtor's control, pressuring the debtor to sell the outstanding shares of C held by the debtor, and seeking ways to independently control C with M, the vice president of C, etc. However, it does not appear from the record that the creditor took any concrete action beyond the exploratory or planning stages, and while such actions by the creditor may constitute treacherous behavior toward the debtor, they do not constitute "malfeasance in office" or "conduct contrary to law" that causes damage to C.
(2)

1. before and after I's debut, there were opinions among the public that I's concept, choreography, costumes, etc. were similar to E's,
2. article 5, paragraph 4 of the exclusive contract entered into between C and the members of E stipulates that if a third party infringes or interferes with E's entertainment activities, C is obliged to take necessary measures to exclude such infringement or interference, and article 15, paragraph 1 of the said contract provides that the members of E may terminate the said exclusive contract if C breaches the above obligation,
3. the creditor, who is a director and president of C, owes a duty of care or fiduciary duty to take the necessary measures to protect the value of E, which is a key asset of C,
4. E's legal representatives have alleged in their petition to this court that "E's legal representatives have demanded that the creditor take action regarding I's plagiarism of E," and there is no evidence that the creditor encouraged E's legal representatives to raise the issue with the debtor,
5. the creditor's sending of an email to the debtor raising the issue of the similarity of IE to the debtor may be considered as fulfillment of the notification obligation under Article 10.3(c) of the Shareholders' Agreement, etc.

(3) The debtor has insufficient evidence to prove that the creditor's actions in question have caused damage to C or diminished the value of C.
(4) 1 Due to the structure of the advertising contract, the source of payment for C as an affiliate of E is E's modeling fee, and the styling service fee for the commercial shoot is paid by the advertiser to a separate subcontractor, and there is no evidence that C paid K separately for styling E's commercials, so even if K received the styling service fee as an affiliate of the subcontractor with the permission of C's board of directors, it is difficult to show that C's revenue or profit decreased, 2 There is no evidence to prove that C's employees provided labor for the styling of the advertisement that generated the styling fees received by K; and 3 It is difficult to conclude that the styling fees received by K are itself a loss to C, as claimed by the creditor, so it is difficult to conclude that the creditor's acceptance of the styling fees received by K as a styling subcontractor for E's advertisement shooting constitutes an act of gratuitous disloyalty to C by the creditor.
(5) It is difficult to conclude that the information that the creditor allegedly leaked to the outside world constitutes C's "trade secret mill" and there is no evidence that the creditor's sending of such information to third parties caused C any specific property damage.
(6) It is difficult to conclude that the creditor has engaged in stock transactions in violation of the Capital Market Act merely because J, an internal director of C, sold the debtor's issued shares valued at approximately KRW 200 million on April 15, 2024. It is also difficult to conclude that the creditor's defamation of the debtor's management or the debtor's affiliated companies constitutes an act that causes property damage to C.
3) Whether the creditor has a reason for resignation
In light of the following circumstances, which are evidenced by the above facts, plus the purpose of the record and the interrogation as a whole, it is difficult to believe that the creditor has sufficiently proved that a reason for resignation exists based on the debtor's claims and materials submitted to date.
a) The fact that the market capitalization of the debtor has fallen by more than KRW 1 trillion is not enough to show that C, which is only a private company in which the debtor holds an 80% stake, has suffered damages of more than KRW 1 billion. There is no evidence that the exclusive contractual relationship with E, an asset of C, has become unstable, and even if it has, there is no evidence that the value of the resulting damage is more than KRW 1 billion.
b) Considering that 1) the contents and extent of the Shareholders' Agreement in question were mentioned by the Creditor at the press conference on April 25, 2024, 2) it is not confirmed that the Creditor was the source of the contents of the Shareholders' Agreement in question that were subsequently reported in the media, and 3) the contents of the Shareholders' Agreement in question were mentioned in the Creditor's position paper on April 5, 2024, 2) it appears that the Creditor mentioned the contents of the Shareholders' Agreement in the course of rebutting the Debtor's position paper on April 26, 2024, it is difficult to conclude that the Creditor materially breached its obligation of confidentiality under Article 12.9 of the Shareholders' Agreement in question.
Furthermore, considering the circumstances described in paragraph (2) of 2) above, as well as the fact that it is difficult to conclude that the discriminatory treatment of E by the Debtor and the pushing out of the Debtor's singer's recordings by the Debtor, which the Creditor requested to be corrected, are completely unfounded, it is difficult to conclude that the Creditor has intentionally or grossly breached its obligation not to engage in acts that may cause damage to C or the Debtor or its affiliates.
c) The Debtor argues that 'the Creditor has committed acts of treachery against C as the CEO and director of C and acts in violation of laws and regulations, and therefore falls under Article 2.1(c)(3) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case', but it is insufficient to conclude that the Creditor has committed acts of treachery against C as the CEO and director of C or acts in violation of laws and regulations. 2), b) above.
d) Considering C's business performance, it is difficult to believe that the circumstances alleged by the debtor are sufficiently disqualifying to prohibit the creditor from performing his duties as the CEO of C, and there is no evidence to prove otherwise.
4) Conclusion
Based on the above, it is necessary to determine whether Creditor has grounds for dismissal or resignation after a full investigation of the evidence and a careful hearing in the case, and it is not sufficiently proved that Creditor has grounds for dismissal or resignation based on the allegations and data submitted to date. Therefore, the Debtor is obliged to abstain from voting in favor of the proposal to dismiss Creditor as a director at the shareholders' meeting of C pursuant to Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement. This case is pleaded as a defense to the motion.
B. Necessity of Preservation
In light of the imminent holding of the Shareholders' Meeting in this case and the difficulty for the Creditor to obtain relief in the present action seeking the fulfillment of its obligations under Article 2.1(a) of the Shareholders' Agreement in this case, and the fact that the Creditor will suffer loss of the opportunity to fulfill its duties as the President and an inside director of C for the remainder of the term of office if the Creditor is dismissed at the Shareholders' Meeting in this case, and that such loss is not monetarily transferable, the necessity of preserving the present application is also established.
C. Indirect coercion
Based on the history of the dispute and the foregoing considerations, it is necessary to order indirect enforcement to ensure the effectiveness of the provisional injunction in paragraph 1 of the Order. The creditor seeks a payment of KRW 30 billion in the event of the debtor's violation of the order in paragraph 1 of the order, but considering the circumstances in the record of this case, including the damages that the creditor will suffer if the debtor exercises its right to vote in favor of the proposal at the shareholders' meeting in this case, it is sufficient to order a payment of KRW 20 billion in the event of the debtor's violation of the order in paragraph 1 of the order to secure the effectiveness of the decision in this case.
4.
Accordingly, the creditor's motion is granted for reasons within the scope recognized above, and the rest of the motion is dismissed for lack of reason. As for the burden of litigation costs, the debtor shall bear all of them, taking into account the circumstances leading up to the filing of this case.
Appendix
Dated May 30, 2024.
Presiding Judge
Judge Kim
Judge Cho
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20 minutes
BA did not come out of the house - but no one came out of any house. You can clearly see no one in the neighborhood came out as well as testimony.
Defence using a three card Monty look the other way defence. Look at this relationship, look at that relationship.
Overwhelming ing evidence ce presented to Grand Jury from a multitude of sources including 42 separate witnesses, 56 exhibits, over 1400 pages of transcript that clearly indicate that the defendant KR killed JOK.
Reviewing material provided by US Attorneys office:
No idea how much (%) fed materials they have.
Materials from state prosecution were provided to the US Attorneys office by Mr. Yanetti, by the defendant or by defence counsel. Prosecution doesn’t know how much % of total discovery from the state case is as actually given to the USAO in which to conduct their investigation.
But it’s clear from the investigation that they (FBI and USAO did) extensively investigated that facts and circumstances that lead to JOK death.
These materials (documents from the federal Agencies) are largely consistent with the CW theory of the case:
There is no suggestion of a third party culprit.
There is no suggestion of cover up of evidence.
No suggestion from the thirteen civilians witness testimony that we have received (transcripts). All of them confirm that JOK never entered 34 Fairview Rd.
There was absolutely no animosity between the individuals at the Waterfall bar or at 34 Fairview residence.
There was no fight.
No there was no dog attack.
There was no eye witness to the circumstance that led to Mr. O’Keefes death.
Witnesses also testified consistent a year later from the Spring of 22 at the state Grand Jury and then in the Spring of 23 at the federal grand jury.
Testimonies largely consistent. Witnesses saying the defendant made clear statements that she did it, not with a question mark at the end.
Discusses damage to her taillight prior to leaving JOs house.
Alan Jackson eluded to text messages from Trooper Proctors phone. Of note there are no text messages from TP phone to JAs phone except for two no content text messages one from June 21 2020 and one for adept 1 2020.
TP and his sister discuss JA about child care.
TP testified JA never did that for him.
Google search:
One expert given two extractions presumably provided by defence counsel that indicate that particular FBI expert search was done 2 something am. What counsel neglects to raise and stress w/ court is that there are separate RCFL analysis of the phone- which through both Axium and through Cellabrite. And the conclusion of that expert is that the searches occurred when JM testified they occurred because the defendant asked her to conduct the searches at 6:23 and 6:24 in the morning.
Cellbrite version that provided that information did not exist at the time of the Grand Jury.
Subsequent version that defence expert finds these proported search without looking at the cashe files, without looking at the db list, without looking at the sq lite data base, without looking at the wallfile (?). All of which was done not only by trooper guerrino, an independent expert Jessica hyde, as well as senior technical analyst from Cellbrite himself. Counsel (defence) has had this report for months at this point.
Senior tech analyst is essential the person who creates the software that all of these experts are using. And his definitive opinion indicated in his report is that JM conducted those searches at 6:23 and 6:24 in the morning.
53:00 mins
Media
Relentless harassment of nearly every witness associated with this case.
Rolling rally of nearly 100 people going to witnesses homes and calling them murderers.
July 31 Gag order: statement of counsel crossed line of permissiblity by AJ. Did not have cart blach to speak with media.
ABC news broadcast where AJ and Yanetti spoke. Indicted prices of taillight were planted, victim went into house, beaten, defensive wounds
Largely of which is not only not true but directly contradictory to the large amount of evidence that has been turned over to this case.
AJ to abc says cover up, murdered in house, body placed outside.
Sept 17: defendant travelling with AJ, Little and woman tv news producer went to JOs house, in direct violation of KR stay away order as a condition of her release.
Also went for a tour around the town of Canton.
Significant history between defendant KR, Yanetti, Jackson and Turtle Boy who has been indicted for intimidation of witnesses in this case.
TB phone seized. Many phone communications between TB and KR on signal msg app and 189 phone calls over a span of a few months.
Also spring 23 communication between TB and Yanetti and Jackson. They went out to lunch following a court date in May of 23.
Federal Grand Jury:
Also clear that this was an investigation which was initiated by the defence and Mr.Yanetti. So, for him to claim he was in the dark or didn’t know about the federal investigation.
Every bit of discovery that the federal government has from the state case was provided by Mr. Yanetti. Nothing was asked for from the CW or DA, state police.
I have no idea what they have seen or haven’t seen or how much of the files discovery of anything.
This goes back to November 2022. So to claim Yanetti was sandbagged about an investigation that he initiated over a year before until late in December of 2023 is disingenuous is the nicest term I can come up with for that.

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